When a couple moved to Washington, DC, from San Francisco four years ago, they wanted a retreat where they could escape the demands of city life with their teenaged son […]

Watching a new house go up in the family-friendly neighborhood they had been eying for a year, a couple with two children took note. Once the home’s wood framing was […]

A couple moving from a bungalow to a modern abode in Northwest DC brought their traditional furnishings with them—along with some trepidation about how to navigate their new environment. “They told […]

Mountain Majesty A long driveway winds through woods before emerging to unveil a stone house nestled into the pastoral landscape of White Post, Virginia. The big reveal, though, happens at […]

Domestic Bliss The home should be the treasure chest of living,” the modernist Le Corbusier once wrote. This insightful nugget would likely have resonated with one couple preparing to design […]

Tiny Jewel Box When called upon to overhaul a 12-foot-wide, 1870s-era house in DC, designer Kerra Michele Huerta summoned “every trick in the book” to make the finished interiors appear […]

Joanne Fitzgerald’s keen design sensibilities stood her in good stead when she first saw the 1926 row house on Capitol Hill. With interiors painted from top to bottom in what she […]

Living History Sitting in the living room of his gracious 1891 home, interior designer Josh Hildreth glances out to a crape myrtle in a corner of the garden. In that […]

Urban Refuge When their landlord suddenly decided to sell the Logan Circle apartment they were renting a year and a half ago, designer Michael Hampton and his husband David Kantor […]

Subtle Patina When a May downpour dampened Jodi Macklin’s plans to host a pre-prom dinner for her son’s senior class in her Chevy Chase backyard, the designer quickly switched gears. […]

Hot Talent: Paul Miller When he was growing up, Paul Miller’s mother “was always playing with color and creating tableaux in our home,” he recalls. This inspiration led the Virginia […]

Hot Talent: Katie DeStefano On a recent trip to Texas, Katie DeStefano brought home the unexpected: an old taxidermic pheasant. “When I go to another city, I love picking through […]

Hot Talent Sallie Kjos Sallie Kjos grew up working in her aunt’s antique store and listening to her father, a master builder from England, discuss his craft. Today as a […]

Hot Talent Byron Risdon Although Byron Risdon earned a graduate degree in education and later taught school, interior design was always in the back of his mind. “I used to […]

Hot Talent Laura Fox After working in the design industry for more than 10 years, Laura Fox “hit the ground running” when she decided to launch Laura Fox Interior Design […]

Portfolio Beach Chic After years of renting houses and descending on relatives in Bethany Beach, Delaware, a Potomac couple finally decided to build a vacation home of their own in […]