Gourmet Grandeur
Granting a client’s wish list for a renovation with little room for expansion can seem like a daunting task. However, for kitchen designer…
Green House Effect
When a Virginia couple decided to create a home office in their cramped brick rambler, they realized it was time to renovate. While they…
Potomac Perch
After Leslie Train Westreich moved into a Watergate condominium once owned by former Virginia Senator John Warner and his wife Elizabeth Taylor, her…
Applause
On its menu, Founding Farmers celebrates the bounty of the American farm. But this spring the DC restaurant has another cause for celebration: It…
Design Classic
With their whole-house remodel nearly complete, the Arnold, Maryland, residents of a waterfront condo turned to Kitchen Encounters for their final project. Their…
Cachet- Sitting Pretty
An irreverent romp through chair history pulls up in June, when the exhibition “Garry Knox Bennett: Call Me Chairmaker” opens in the American…
In The Zone
Modifying a galley kitchen arrangement to satisfy the needs of a growing family with multiple cooks was the challenge facing Mastercraft Design, Inc.’s…
New Luxury Projects
The Ritz-Carlton Lifestyle Luxury condominium homes priced from the $600s to $5 million are currently available at The Ritz-Carlton Residences Inner Harbor, Baltimore….
Circular Edge
Faced with a span of only 15 feet from the kitchen window to the rear property line, most homeowners wouldn’t begin to consider…
Colorful Contemporary
When a Potomac homeowner hired Carnemark systems + design, inc. to update her kitchen, she had two goals: to open the kitchen up…
Cachet- Georgetown Gem
Jewelry designer Heidi Hess, 25, brings her unique creations to her newly opened Georgetown boutique, Poppy. The shop, which takes its moniker from…
Modern Appeal
The owners of a DC rambler wanted to transform their small, outdated 1950s kitchen into a large, open space full of light—contemporary but not…
Cachet- French Connection
Yves Delorme has opened a concept store in Bethesda’s Wildwood Shopping Center that marries its signature textiles and linens with furniture, lighting and…
Private Tour- A Subtle Sense of Style
On a bleak morning in February, the living room in the Chevy Chase, Maryland, home of U.S. Senator Kit Bond and Linda Bond…
A Neutral Palette
A Potomac couple liked the size of their master bath, but not much else about it. An outdated look, crowded vanities and a…
Extreme Makeover
May/June 2009 When Lisa and Dave Schertler purchased their classic 1930s brick Colonial in the Kalorama neighborhood of Washington, DC, it was missing a…
An Eco-Centric Plan
Many local builders talk about green construction these days. But few are tackling the movement with the gusto of Gary Nash. The Nash…
Water View
Good working relationships make all the difference in landscape design, so when Annapolis builder Bret Anderson of Pyramid Builders began work on his…
Art Studio- An Artist’s Enclave
Clustered near Route 1 in Mount Rainier, Maryland, a series of ordinary cinderblock buildings gives little hint of the creative talent at work…
Au Naturel
Building green should no longer be the exception but the rule, according to Yuri Sagatov of Sagatov Homes. “It is simply fundamental building…