At the Intersection of Art, Architecture & Design

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A New Front Porch and Remodeled Entry Garden Welcomes Family and Visitors.

For this modest home in Silver Spring, Maryland, we created an idyllic outdoor retreat with strong indoor-outdoor connections. Shown above is the al fresco dining room — with walls of foliage and cedar — in the fence and pergola.

This article is about how garden design effects the “feel” of your home. An entry garden can make a home feel more or less formal. It can make an imposing home feel less or more imposing and it can make a modest home feel more or less modest.

Remodeling within the existing footprint allowed this family to live their dream.

Upgrading your fireplace surround can be an inexpensive way to make a big impact. This article shows before and after shots of 6 fireplaces and explains what we did.

This is the 5th article about taking an isolated kitchen in an older home and making it the center of today’s activities. While not strictly a galley kitchen, the kitchen in this 1930′s home is isolated from the rest of the house. My clients asked how they could make the kitchen the center of the home

This is the 4th article about taking an isolated galley kitchen in an older home and making it the center of the family’s activities.

This is the 3rd article about taking an isolated galley kitchen in an older home and making it the center of today’s activities. The original kitchen had adequate space — including adequate counter space — so we didn’t need to enlarge the kitchen. Instead we removed the wall …

Galley kitchens can be very effective work spaces. The big problem with galley kitchens in older homes is that they are cut off from everything — and often have limited counter space. I’ve yet to find a small galley kitchen that I couldn’t successfully incorporate into an open plan.

My client wanted media and exercise rooms in the basement of her 1920′s Washington DC home. The media room is the place where she and her boyfriend spend evenings with their large black lab. She wanted it to be comfortable for the two of them on a daily basis