A vintage waterman’s cottage got a new lease on life when the owners tapped Jamie Merida Interiors to overhaul its outdated spaces. The goal was to convert the two-story, 1,600-square-foot […]

When a pair of empty nesters decided to remodel their Chevy Chase, Maryland, home of almost 20 years, they started off in an unusual direction. Instead of vetting, selecting and […]

LET’S EAT The ALFA 5 Minuti wood-fired pizza oven reaches operating temperature in five minutes and bakes two pizzas at a time within its brick-floored, ceramic-fiber-insulated interior. Stainless-steel domed construction […]

Hired to renovate a dated Arlington kitchen, designer Melissa Broffman ended up starting from scratch. “The kitchen hadn’t had any attention since the 1990s,” she says. “It was dominated by […]

Grant Bermann and Ryan Velandria McCarthy fell in love with the Italianate brick façade of the 1889 Shaw row house when they purchased the property in 2015, but were less […]

An Ashton, Maryland, widower hired Carnemark design+build to overhaul his bedroom suite, which entailed merging cramped his-and-her closets into a single stylish and functional dressing room customized for his needs. […]

Georgetown’s historic Cooke’s Row boasts a hefty pedigree—starting with Henry D. Cooke, the District of Columbia’s first governor, who in 1868 commissioned architect Morris Starkweather to design four stately homes […]

PERFECT PAIR LG Studio’s Energy Star-certified WashTower stacks a washer and dryer in a single-unit front-loader with an easy-reach center control panel and AI technology that selects optimal settings for […]

Tiny Gem - Downsizing from a large Northern Virginia residence, Fabiola Martens discovered a diminutive one-bedroom condo in Georgetown, tucked behind a stately, 1912 brick manse. It was one of six […]

The complexity of a whole-house renovation was increased exponentially in a townhouse reinvention near Washington’s Logan Circle. That’s because the owners, Sharon H. Russ and David Rubin, had just expanded […]

Feathered Nest - When the time came to downsize from their house in Arlington, an attorney and his wife, a writer, settled on a light-filled, fifth-floor condo overlooking Northwest DC’s […]

Product Watch - FINISH LINE Farrow & Ball’s catalog of 156 water-based hues now comes in Modern Emulsion, a low-VOC, matte finish for interiors that is washable and wipeable, scuff-proof […]

Wooded Refuge - The owners of a wooded Cockeysville, Maryland, property tasked Sunnyfields Cabinetry with overhauling their primary bath to reflect its bucolic locale. “I was asked to create a […]

Chic + Serene - After remodeling the rest of her clients’ Chevy Chase DC home, Laurie McParland was asked to tackle the outmoded owners’ bath. “The entire bathroom was in […]

Lap of Luxury - VELVET TOUCH Italy-based Lapitec has a new addition to its Essenza collection of sintered-stone surfaces. Nero Assoluto Velluto sports a charcoal hue with a soft, velvety […]

Cottage Charm - Tucked beneath leafy trees, the aptly named Shady Point Cottage sits on a navigable peninsula off the Magothy River, a mere three miles north of the Chesapeake […]