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Eye For Style Gallery
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Painted Furniture Gallery
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2005 MNCBIA Gold Award Winners Gallery
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ASID 2005 Winners Gallery
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Anatomy of a Decorator’s Showhouse Gallery
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Get Cooking! Ranges and Ovens Gallery
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Making An Entry
Tips for welcoming guests to your front door.
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In The Garden: Size Matters
By Greg Powell Greg Powell is the Residential Sales Manager and Marketing Director for the Virginia branch of Chapel Valley Landscape Company. SIZE matters Considering adding trees to the landscape around your home? Whether for privacy, aesthetics, or additional scale, clients these days are opting for much larger specimen trees. As houses have grown from the 1950s ramblers to the larger, multifaceted homes of today, the trees that surround them have become a much more important factor in integr
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A Smoldering Fire: Autumn Foliage
By Peggy Riccio Peggy Riccio is a regular contributor to ChesapeakeHome. A Smoldering Fire Autumn Foliage We are fortunate to live in an area with spectacular spring displays of yellow daffodils, red tulips, white dogwoods, and mounds and mounds of pink and purple azaleas. Tourists flock to our Nation’s capital to see breathtaking displays of pastel colors en masse. But having visited once in the spring, visitors tend to stay home and miss our equally beautiful but less publized autumn sho
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Get Cooking!
GET COOKING! cool colors, retro styling, and professional quality are all the range these days. The kitchen range used to be a hulking, radiating vortex of warmth. As the family dog knew, it was the place to be; from it came two of life’s greatest necessities—heat and food. Somewhere along the way, kitchens moved away from their center a bit, or perhaps, the center of the house moved away from the kitchen. Regardless, the range shrank (literally and psychologically). In recent years
