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Botanical Isles
Floating Islands and Wetlands bring terrestrial landscapes to aquatic climes and help clean the water as well. By Kevin Varrone • Photography by Robert Noonan Floating Islands can be designed to obscure the pot (right) or focus on specimen plants (left). RIGHT: A Floating Island center planted with Canna ‘African Sunset” and Golden Creeping Jenny (Lysimachia nummularia ‘Aurea’) seems to dance across the pond surface at Maryland Aquatic Nurseries. Earth Science classes have long taught that
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Garage Doors With Curb Appeal
By Kevin Varrone TOP: This Clopay door is from the Avante Collection and can be used as a garage door or even as an alternative patio door to merge spaces indoors and out. INSET: The Terry model from the Amarr By Design Collection provides an authentic old world look with new world function. The mere mention of garage doors used to send shivers down the spines of architects, builders, and homeowners, conjuring visions of raised-panel monolithic eyesores. It always seemed garage doors were a one-
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Art House
Interior decor with an emphasis on the arts.
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Town House On The Hill
If urban architecture is an evolution––
the way a city unfolds, adapts, and perseveres over time––then the rowhouse is its ultimate species. Humble and fabled, the rowhouse has been the face of Baltimore’s neighborhoods for some two hundred years.Through the good, the bad, and the ugly, it has been the heart and soul of [...]
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Cosmopolitan Coastal Cottage
Seventy-one percent of the earth’s surface is covered by ocean. Its allure seems universally stitched into our DNA. Whenever possible, we want to be near it. Wherever possible, we build houses close to it.
The beach house—where we go to feel at home and escape, to plant one foot on terra firma while dangling the other [...]
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Landscape Of Many Levels
Decks and terraces create multiple levels of outdoor rooms.
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A View To Dwell On
House on the Magothy with views from every room.
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Idyllic Waterfront Garden
Gallery
Looking out from the pool house over the silver-blue shimmer of the water, its cool length drawing the eye along a stretched sight line to a sculptural Ginkgo (Maidenhair) tree centered perfectly in the middle of three doorways that shape the view, you could easily think, this is how to compose tranquility. You might even [...] -
Forging On
“I was never afraid of monsters,” says Clare Yellin. “From the day I was born, I was surrounded by all these amazing creatures.” The creatures Yellin is referring to are the works of her historic family business, Samuel Yellin Metalworkers.
One look around the company’s forge, a 200-year-old former blacksmith’s shop in Chester County, Pennsylvania, makes [...] -
Intimate Beauty
By Kevin Varrone Kevin Varone is a regular contributor to ChesapeakeHome Design is all about relationships–how things work in the presence of other things. As such, it’s no surprise that interior designer Michelle Miller returned repeatedly to the subject when talking about the contemporary Pikesville home that she’s worked on over the past five years. There are many relationships on view in every design project, but one of the most important ones–that between designer and homeowner–can’t be
