Outdoor Vision It’s easy for homeowners planning a landscape project to come up with a wish list of desired features. What is not so easy is creating a design that […]

2014 Architect Spotlight Throughout the Baltimore-Washington region, experienced local architects apply their vision and expertise to a wide range of custom-home designs and renovations. Via the following links, some of […]

2014 Lanscape Visionaries Experienced landscape architects and designers throughout the Baltimore-Washington region apply their vision and expertise to a wide range of projects, including pools and water features, inviting gardens […]

Going Modern Building a new house typically requires choosing an architectural style and sticking with it through construction. Countering this practice, a couple combined both historical and contemporary designs to […]

Suite Life You can’t see it until you swing around the driveway of this well-appointed stone house in McLean, but once a guest arrives at the milky-white paneled door surrounded […]

On the Bookshelf RECIPES FOR SUCCESS Award-winning Chevy Chase kitchen designer Jennifer Gilmer has released the ultimate guide to planning and designing the perfect kitchen. The Kitchen Bible, written by Gilmer […]

A Simple Plan When Rui Ponte and wife Jean Assuncao bought the dilapidated 1940s Cape Cod house in Bethesda’s Edgemoor neighborhood in 1995, it didn’t even occur to them to […]

Shore Life On a breezy July afternoon, chef Robert Wiedmaier offered his guests morsels of savory-sweet Maryland crab, a taste of what would be on the menu that evening. The […]

Celebrate Fall in Style LATIN ACCENT ON 14TH STREET James Beard award-winning chef Michael Schlow recently opened Tico, serving cuisine inspired by his travels to Latin America, Mexico and Spain. […]

Chic Getaways & CAMILLE BACHRACH LUXURY ON THE MEDITERRANEAN Whether you want an active vacation or a beach break, Columbia Beach Resort on Cyprus’s Bay of Pissouri will fit the […]

Elegant Vibe Twenty years after interior designer Rosemarie Howe and contractor Tom Gilday collaborated on a Chevy Chase renovation, the same clients called them back for an update. This time, […]

Bathing Brilliance LIGHT AND AIRY Designed by Gardenia Orchidea, Italo Ceramica’s new Linear 3D ceramic tile imparts texture and movement to the bathroom with its basket-weave motif. italoceramica.com MOROCCAN MOOD […]

Tropical Touch A Maryland couple who’d grown tired of their outmoded 1980s master bathroom turned to designer Diane Taitt for help. The wife, a physician, wanted a serene retreat where […]

Going Glam When designing the interiors of an expansive new Rockville home, Marlene Weiss Alexander devised an outside-the-box plan for its powder room. “Every inch of this powder room is […]

Signature Style A Nantucket vacation provided inspiration for the sleek, spare design of a Northwest DC apartment. The homeowners—both attorneys—stayed in a cottage designed by Jacobsen Architecture and fell in […]

Waxing Poetic On a sunny day in McLean, Virginia, artist and beekeeper Georgia Nassikas gazes out the tall windows of her second-story studio, taking in the sky, the verdant lawn […]