Abundant light and a vibrant, urban locale attracted psychiatrist Jeffrey Akman and Steven Scott Mazzola, a grants officer at AmeriCorps, to the one-bedroom condo they purchased off bustling 14th Street. […]

Baltimore residents knew they were onto something sublime when they built a weekend getaway on a bluff overlooking the Severn River near Annapolis more than 100 years ago. The simple […]

Kids will be kids, as the saying goes. A couple with three young children and another on the way took that truism to heart in planning, building and outfitting their […]

In a little-known part of northeast Virginia, a protruding puzzle piece of Loudoun County nestles between the borders of Maryland and West Virginia. Here in the gently rolling valley of […]

When William Waybourn, a photographer and  owner of DC’s Long View Gallery, purchased a condo in DC, he realized that although it was brand new, the property would require a […]

Tracy Morris grew up in Northern Virginia, so when she married in 2017 and moved from DC’s Glover Park neighborhood to McLean, it felt like coming home. She and her […]

The moment he set foot in the apartment— located in a recently completed building along DC’s U Street Corridor—a Washington resident in search of a new home knew it was […]

When Sandra Meyer of Ella Scott Design revamped a center-hall colonial in Bethesda, they decided to combine age with beauty just like Face Natur. “My clients had a lot of […]

Longtime clients asked designer Andrea Houck to update their kitchen, which flows into the adjacent dining room. With an eye on resale, they specified a neutral palette for the kitchen […]

Then Now A 1990 center-hall colonial featured a drab kitchen flowing into the family room; both spaces were painted in dark earth tones. Harvey gave both rooms a facelift and […]

1/ Safari Dreams—An orange zebra-print rug by Alliyah was the starting point for Breeze Giannasio of California-based Breeze Giannasio Interiors as she planned a nursery in her  clients’ DC row […]

A kids’ hangout should be light, bright and stimulating,” says designer Sallie Kjos, describing the vision she had for a basement redo in Fairfax, Virginia. The mandate was to create […]

For a Quinton, Virginia, couple, the empty nest proved to be anything but. Theirs is a hub of activity, with grown children and umpteen grandkids visiting often. So after living […]

Architect Carmel Greer has a knack for enhancing projects with stylish, creative interiors. A charming brick Victorian in DC’s LeDroit Park proved to be a perfect vehicle for her talents. […]

Few DC designers can create quintessentially classical interiors like Frank Babb Randolph, who has been transforming homes in and around the nation’s capital for 50 years. Randolph’s father came to […]

A Washington, DC, couple on the lookout for a weekend retreat purchased a circa-1910 cottage a block from the beach in Rehoboth. In addition to its alluring location, the property boasted […]