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Deck the Halls
Every year, DonnaMarie Jarosz, of Severna Park, Maryland, gives herself the same Christmas gift—the gift of relaxation and peace of mind. Ever since her teenage girls were little, the Jarosz family has left for vacation on Thanksgiving weekend and returned to a beautifully decorated home for the holidays. “It was so magical for my girls,” [...]
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2011 AIA Baltimore Residential Design Awards
We all know good architecture when we see it. But verbalizing what makes a house extraordinary is something different. It may be a cozy window seat so perfectly executed you wish you had a good book and a cup of tea. Perhaps it’s the details of a traditional fireplace mantle. Or maybe it is [...]
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Trophy Rooms
What inspires you? Is it a quiet place to relax and catch up with friends online, a fashionable and functional kitchen to cook family meals, or an entertainment room to cheer on your favorite team during the Big Game? Whatever the case may be, the design of these spaces must be carefully and artfully planned. [...]
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Perfect Symmetry
Artfully retrofitted contemporary kitchen.
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Gibson Getaway
It’s not surprising that this French Tudor gem on secluded Otter Pond in Gibson Island caught the eye of its homeowners as a perfect place for a retreat home for themselves and their grown children. The house, one of the first on the island, has retained all its early 20th century architectural charm, including a [...]
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Coastal Cabin
By Daniel Friedman
Boss pulls the old Privateer up against the wooden dock just below the bunk house and cuts the motor, guiding the center-consol workboat, a favorite among the watermen of these parts, with a practiced hand to a full stop. His longtime friend and collaborator, architect Jay Dalgleish, leaps from the vessel and secures [...] -
Solar Strides
Before most people were interested in energy conservation, David and Laura Sill were green pioneers. In 1998 they built a Victorian-style house in Reisterstown, which was designed to one day accommodate solar panels, and in 2004, a set of photovoltaic panels big enough to provide about 30 to 40 percent of the family’s energy needs, [...]
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Updating a Southern Classic
After 14 years in their custom-built Southern-style historical replica home, original owners Louis and Theresa Dupart of Great Falls, Virginia decided to expand their living space with an updated kitchen, enlarged family room, and a new patio. The Duparts, who have two grown sons, 22 and 19, use this new and improved area of the [...]
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Shorely Simple
Home on the Chesapeake Bay reflects relaxed coastal style.
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Drama Queen
It’s impossible to imagine that the kitchen owned by Darshna Dhake and Matthew Rick, now an homage to dramatic, contemporary style, was once a ho-hum suburban room. “It was basically a builder-grade townhouse built in the ‘80s,” Dhake explains. “There was nothing wrong with it, but it lacked personality, which made a person reluctant to [...]
