Chesapeake Home

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 [...]

One of the most functional spaces in the home, the bathroom is a space where many people start and end their day. But your bathroom can be more than just a place to take a shower and brush your teeth; it can express your style and personality as well. To help inspire your own bathroom [...]

The bathroom in Patricia Chatfield’s Annapolis home felt like an “iceberg,” recalls interior designer Joni Zimmerman, president and artistic director of Design Solutions, Inc. So Chatfield, who had previously collaborated with Zimmerman on a kitchen remodel, called her in again to give the bath some much-needed warmth—literally as well as figuratively.
While the bathroom—which had a [...]

A stylish renovation offers smart luxuries that take an outdated bath back to basics.

As with anything, a home begins with a fresh, clear face that over time wears the marks of its life, including ensuing redesigns diminishing the structure’s original appearance. Homeowner Melanie and her husband and their young boys learned this when they moved into a 1920s center hall Georgian colonial in a historic Baltimore neighborhood. They [...]

Like a ship at sea, the kitchen looks most romantic when it is lit at night. The tops of the cabinets are outfitted with soft blue lights and the surfboard-shaped island is fitted with LED lights as well. “When we have people over and we want to dim the lights, we light up the surfboard and it’s just beautiful,” says the homeowner.

When Holly and George Stone bought their house in Clarksville, Maryland in 1990 they didn’t conceive of doing any remodeling because at the time it almost felt too big. But over the years, one particular problem gnawed away at Holly. “The pantry was on the other side of the kitchen and you had to go [...]

When Brenda and Thomas Anderson of Annapolis decided to add a mini suite with a full bath to their home on Clements Creek and the Severn River, they started with Brasher Design, Inc. out of Columbia, Maryland. Brasher did an initial design, and invited contractors to bid on the project. “The house initially was not [...]