
DC Revival
In 1999, Ken Crerar and his husband Peter Garrett lucked into finding their forever home in DC’s Wesley Heights area. The renovated and expanded…
In 1999, Ken Crerar and his husband Peter Garrett lucked into finding their forever home in DC’s Wesley Heights area. The renovated and expanded…
Since launching FORMA Design 25 years ago, Andreas Charalambous has split his time between residential and commercial work. So when a client tapped him…
Bethesda’s Tulip Hill, nestled into rolling hills above the C&O Canal and filled with its namesake tulip poplars, was at the top of Erich…
Built between 1949 and 1951, the Hammond Wood community in Silver Spring is notable for its modern houses nestled into a heavily wooded setting….
For Liz Mearns, decorating homes in the Arlington community of Aurora Hills is a regular part of her business. “I have worked on about…
Little did Vesper Mei know she’d landed a diamond in the rough when she purchased a Capitol Hill row house in 2002. The 100-plus-year-old,…
It was the view that sealed the deal. On the market for a waterfront home, David and Maria Welch walked into a run-of-the-mill, circa-1970s…
Looking at the front of the vintage row house Patricio Asfura-Heim and Christine DeWitt recently remodeled, little seems to have changed from a century…
Rustic and modern meet in this renovation of a century-old log cabin in the Chevy Chase neighborhood of Somerset. The original structure has been…
Instead of tearing down their small colonial to build a McMansion, Bethesda homeowners Geoff Sharpe and Laurel Hatt preserved the existing 1940s structure as…
After nearly 30 years in a traditional Northwest DC home, Barbara and Scott Blake Harris yearned for a more modern, open living experience. “We…
Tucked behind brick walls, a diminutive, remodeled carriage house blends with the grand abodes of its historic Dupont Circle neighborhood while holding its own…
Spectacular views of the Potomac River convinced photographer and human rights activist Betsy Karel to downsize from a multi-story house in Cleveland Park to…
Modern Redux RunningTo a casual observer, the Federal-style Kalorama row house would have seemed move-in ready: Its stately brick façade opened into well-proportioned rooms with…
Modern UpdatePotomac is known for its sprawling mansions, but in moving there from California, scientists Ronald Herbst and Bahija Jallal chose a more modest…
Built in the 1930s, a modest A-frame house in Arlington was just the right size for Darren Robbins, a principal at a tech firm,…
In renovating their 1948 rambler, Spring Valley homeowners Brian and Joanne Barlia realized that gaining more usable space doesn’t necessarily require an addition. Instead,…