After inheriting a turn-of-the-century home in Baltimore’s Roland Park, owners turned to Kirsten Anthony Kaplan to update its interiors while respecting its Prairie-style architecture. A new color palette introduced a […]

Floors + Windows + Doors: Drawing Board Tasked with renovating his client’s three-bedroom apartment in DC, Andreas Charalambous traded its outdated, 1970s look for a clean, contemporary aesthetic. In the […]

Closets + Organized Spaces: Drawing Board A single father of three contacted Kristin Peake for a whole-house redesign, which included the overhaul of a large, multi-purpose room. Peake created a […]

Fine Furnishings + Art: Drawing Board Camille Saum created an element of surprise in her 2011 DC Design House dining room by painting the floors; artist Ali Nassiri expertly executed […]

Audio/Video + Lighting: Drawing Board Clients with severe time constraints were looking to upgrade their home- technology system while also fitting out a new media room in their basement. They […]

Architecture + Custom Building: Drawing Board A Bethesda family tapped Ali Honarkar of Division1 Architects to replace their dark, 1950s-era home with a prefab abode, as money was a concern. […]

GALA 2014 Awards Each year, a panel of building industry professionals is selected to judge new homes and communities in the Mid-Atlantic region and to choose their nominees for the […]

The Sherman Building—a 160-year-old National Historic Landmark known as the “Old Soldiers’ Home”—was among several important DC buildings damaged by the 2011 earthquake. Entire sections of masonry collapsed and the […]

Art Meets Function Born in a bomb shelter in a small Israeli town near the Jordan River, Shlomi Abukassis grew up noticing everything—from beauty to destruction. He was drawing, dancing […]

A Sense of Place When self-taught chef Patrick O’Connell opened The Inn at Little Washington in a former auto repair shop in 1978, few would have wagered that the venture […]

Creative Cabinetry Alexandria interior designer Shazalynn Cavin-Winfrey—a graduate of the Culinary Institute of America—is partnering with Christiana to craft SCW Interiors Custom Cabinetry. Her high-end line boasts mortise-and-tenon joinery, soft-close […]

Design Intervention The eighth annual DC Design House will showcase the work of more than 20 local designers in a new, 8,870-square-foot, farmhouse-style residence in McLean. Designed by Harrison Design […]

Grand Opening First, rumors swirled. Then there was uncertainty. Then waiting and more waiting. As the former Washington Design Center building in Southwest began its transition into the future home […]

A Refined Mix It all started with the bowling alley. Its long expanse of professional-grade lanes fills the lower level of a sprawling, custom stone house in Woodbridge, Virginia—a dream […]

Better by Design For most families planning to build or renovate, functionality and ease of movement are essential. But in the case of a McLean couple designing a home to […]

Glass tower Matthew Small, an executive at the educational software firm Blackboard, Inc., couldn’t have been surer of his goals for the merger of his Penn Quarter duplex with the […]