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Seasonal Indoor Plants
Tips for keeping holiday plants alive.
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Special Bulbs: Early Season Bulbs For The Garden
By Peggy Riccio Peggy Riccio is a Contributing Editor to ChesapeakeHome Discovering small, butter-yellow flowers pushing through the snow in late winter always cheers me up. The wide, happy faces of winter aconites tell me that cold weather will soon come to an end. Later, when I find patches of dainty white snowdrops and nests of blue, Siberian squills, I know spring has arrived. Small, early flowering bulbs like these have traditionally been called lesser or minor bulbs. Recently, nurseries be
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Good Gutters
Replacing your gutters? Consider these options.
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Tech Check: The Low-Down on High Tech TVs
By Frank DePew New television technology and changes in broadcast formats can make buying aTV extremely complicated. Here, we sort through the mess and help you focus on what is important when selecting a television. TV Screen Formats: Screen formats are described by their aspect ratio, which represents the relationship of screen width to screen height. Conventional sets have a 4:3 aspect ratio, while wide-screen models such as plasmas and larger LCDs have a 16:9 aspect ratio. All HDTV is broadc
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How To Select Persian And Oriental Rugs
A buyers’ guide.
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Great Chairs For All Occasions
By Christianna McCausland Christianna McCausland is a Contributing Editor to ChesapeakeHome Someone once quipped that an occasional chair is, well, a chair you only use onoccasion. In fact, occasional chairs are one of the most versatile yet overlooked pieces of furniture in the home. Perhaps it’s better to describe the occasional chair as that which you don’t miss until it is gone. A room without an occasional chair seems bare, slightly incomplete. It is the piece of furniture that
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Top Contractors: Built To Last
By Lauren Brooks Lauren Brooks is the assistant editor at ChesapeakeHome Photos byCurtis Martin, Alan Gilbert, Anne Gummerson, Cezary Gurbada and Glenwood Jackson Shelter is one of our most basic needs, but home is much more than just a shelter. A home is a financial and emotional investment, the place where we will gather for birthdays and everydays, where we will welcome family and friends. Home is where we will tuck in our children for a good night’s sleep and then tuck ourselves away f
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Artisan Profile: McMartin & Beggins
By Andrea C. Poe Take one shipbuilder from Annapolis and another from Long Island, plunk the pair down in a retired dog food and chicken feed mill in St. Michaels, Maryland, throw in a passion for symmetrical Federal-era forms, and you get one of the leading furniture makers in the country—McMartin & Beggins Furniture Makers. Jim McMartin and Jim Beggins are of that rare artisan breed which customers like Vice President Dick Cheney find a welcome reprieve in this age of instant gratificati
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AIA 2005 Design Awards
By Dennis Hockman Dennis Hockman is the editor of ChesapeakeHome American Institute Of Architects CHESAPEAKE BAY CHAPTER 2005 DESIGN AWARDS Well-designed buildings consider the needs of the people who will live, work, and play in them. These buildings take into account the site, views, weather patterns, budget constraints of the client, style of other nearby structures, natural topography, and more. The best architecture is designed with all these criteria in mind and manifests itself with grace
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Glover Park Sophistcate
Interior Designer Edna Gross’s elegant DC home.
