Garden Variety
Ed Ball Landscape Architecture creates outdoor spaces for all seasons Ed Ball Landscape Architecture offers full-service landscape design and construction services. Landscape architect Ed…
Al Fresco Escape
Fine Landscapes, Ltd., brings elegance and comfort to bear in a lush, bucolic landscape With more than 40 years’ experience, Fine Landscapes’ skilled designers…
Spa Living
Wheat’s Landscape creates an outdoor oasis with amenities galore Established in 1978, Wheat’s Landscape has evolved from a family lawn care service to a…
Bethesda Escape
Fine Earth Landscape designs a modern haven for outdoor entertaining Fine Earth Landscape specializes in residential design/build and landscape maintenance. For this project, the…
Urban Refuge
Goffin Gardens conjures a soothing retreat for a historic residence in the city Goffin Gardens designs harmonious and inviting outdoor spaces. Principal Katia Goffin…
Family Affair
Kane Landscapes, Inc., conjures resort-style living around an expansive backyard pool scape Kane Landscapes, Inc., provides landscape architecture and maintenance, focusing on the art…
Outdoor Aerie
McHale Landscape Design transforms a mundane lot into a versatile garden retreat McHale Landscape Design is a single-source landscape design/build/architecture firm boasting an experienced…
Raw + Refined
Unexpected contrasts fill the Bethesda residence architect David Jameson designed for himself, his wife Nancy and their two children, McKenzie and Jake. Raw and…
Life of the Party
Tom and Nancy Stout have always loved hosting parties, but it wasn’t easy in the Oakton home they shared for 18 years, where typical…
Innovative Landscape solutions
How top designers problem-solve Outdoor Aerie McHale Landscape Design transforms a mundane lot into a versatile garden retreat Family Affair Kane Landscapes, Inc., conjures…
Go with the Flow
1/ SMOOTH TRANSITION Great Falls clients hired Charles Owen of Fine Landscapes Ltd. to create a “transition” garden connecting an excavated portion of their…
On the Shelf
FOUR SEASONS A distinguished presence in rarified Washington circles, the late socialite and philanthropist Bunny Mellon was also accomplished in garden design—having masterminded the…
Departure Point
After 22 happy years spent raising two daughters in Potomac, interior designer Lauren Sachs and her husband were ready for a change. “We wanted…
Waterfront Haven
Years of searching the Chesapeake Bay waterfront for a home led Marshall “Marsh” and Estela McClean to purchase a hilltop property overlooking Mill Creek…
Gone Sailing
The Chesapeake Bay is the perfect locale for Deborah and John Tuttle, two busy doctors who love to recharge on the water. They were…
Pure Geometry
A couple who owned three unkempt acres in Oakton asked landscape architect Katia Goffin to transform their disordered property into a clean-lined, modern landscape….
Ask the Pros: Landscape Design
What advice do you offer clients for creating inviting outdoor “rooms?” We advise our clients to go for function over beauty. Select an area that…
Cutting Edge
Marble Systems’ Boise Porcelain Tile Collection conveys weather-worn style indoors and out with a durable, easy-to-clean, wood-look surface. Available in a range of patterns…
Fired Up
Where there’s smoke, there should be fire, contends Ben Eisendrath, the DC-based CEO of Grillworks. His company’s stainless-steel grills let backyard barbecuers and professional…
Fun in the Sun
Janus et Cie’s Vis a Vis collection now includes modular lounge seating elevated on teak platform bases with matching, attachable tables. Designed by Piergiorgio…