Rooms We Love Bedroom A couple with a new home in McLean envisioned their master bedroom as a pleasing refuge where they would be able to comfortably read or watch […]

Audio/Video + Lighting Drawing Board After purchasing a pied-à-terre in CityCenterDC, clients asked Ernesto Santalla to help them make the most of the space with better storage, improved finishes, and a […]

Closets + Organized Spaces Case Study Fed up with the cramped bedroom closet in their Potomac home, designer Deborah Kalkstein and her husband were ready for an upgrade. As they […]

Drawing Board Fine Furniture + Art Skip Sroka was tapped to design the interiors of Norton Manor, a newly constructed estate in Potomac. He and the owners decided to embellish […]

Case Study Fine Furniture + Art When the owner of a condo in Shirlington walked into Tchoupitoulas Furnishings in Old Town Alexandria, she took a look around and hired the […]

Drawing Board Interior Design A Cleveland Park home had become dilapidated over time. The owner contacted designer Rachel Dougan to update the house with style and character—a task that included […]

Drawing Board Remodeling Clients with a modern sensibility hired Natascha Folens to transform the traditionally styled family room of their Reston home into a clean-lined, serene space with a contemporary […]

Case Study Interior Design Ten years ago, Lorna Gross-Bryant designed the interiors of a Bowie, Maryland, home for a couple with teenagers. Recently, the same clients—now empty nesters—called on her […]

How well a client trusts me makes all the difference,” says designer Kelley Proxmire, who is known for the strong use of vivid color in her work. This was certainly […]

Rooms We Love: Living Room A client who purchased a condo in The Residences at the Ritz-Carlton, Georgetown hired Paul Sherrill of Solis Betancourt & Sherrill for a redesign that […]

Rooms We Love Dining Room Pamela Harvey understands traditional design, but she also knows how to make it feel fresh and new. When clients purchased a center-hall colonial in Oakton, […]

Design Inspiration Two Maryland artisans have added the craft of wallpaper design to their portfolios. Decorative painter Stacey Tranter and textile designer Victoria Larson both bring special skills and perspectives […]

For the past eight years, the DC Design House has been the premier design event of spring in Washington—until this year when it moves to the fall. The 2016 show […]

Hot Talent In this annual feature, H&D spotlights a handful of designers who are blazing exciting new trails in firms of their own. This year’s group gathered in the Washington […]

Change Artist Paul Sherrill thinks of his apartment as a lab where he often shifts art, moves rugs or subtly tweaks the palette to add rich color here or neutral […]

Architectural Eye Before opening her contemporary-furniture store and interior design studio, Deborah Kalkstein studied architecture in her native Peru—and it shows. Kalkstein brings an architect’s eye to everything she does, […]