The entrance to 2509 Foxhall Road NW, the 11,000-plus-square-foot manse that houses DC Design House 2016. If the property, with its front porch and garden designed by D & A Dunlevy Landscapers, appeals to you, it is on the market…
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…2008. The house, open to the public through Sunday, May 10, is at 956 Mackall Farms Lane, McLean, Va. It is closed on Mondays. Tickets are $30. For driving directions and more information, go to DC Design House. Kathy Legg…
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…located at 9004 Congressional Court, Potomac, Maryland. The showhouse features 23 designed spaces and is open from Saturday, September 30, 2017 through Sunday, October 29. WHEN I VISIT a decorator show house I listen as the designers explain the concept…
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More coverage of the 2017 DC Design House here. SOMETIMES THE OBVIOUS doesn’t hit you until afterward. The one thing most of the designers at the 10th annual DC Design House had to contend with was . . . wait…
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…white silk fabric behind the metal grating. / Photo by Angie Seckinger. Victoria Sanchez designed a casual and cozy family room adjacent to the kitchen in the 2014 DC Design House. / Photo by Angie Seckinger. Designer Victoria Sanchez. /…
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…house overlooks the beauty of landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted’s ageless design for the parkland surrounding the house. The tranquil lagoon, created by Olmsted, was used by guests for fishing and boating. Today one of several tours offered at Biltmore…
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…your house to be included on the annual house tour. Well, you probably know that the Georgetown House Tour, in its 85th year, is thought to be the oldest of its kind in the country—so you’re flattered. And, for heaven’s…
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…strongly suggest this was a kit house. Though it has undergone a recent renovation, the owners strove to retain much of the craftsman simplicity of the original design. / Photo by Piers Lamb. This 1949 mid-century-modern house was designed by…
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…house had only two little bedrooms for the kids. This house is much bigger. A family room designed by Lauren Liess. Natural elements and casual linen slipcovers set the tone. / “Habitat” photo by Helen Norman. The new house won’t…
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…house on Allan Road in Bethesda, some call it the “mushroom house.” Others refer to it as the “hobbit house.” Since 1967, Edward and Frances Garfinkle have simply called it “home.” If you haven’t driven past it–it’s just off Western…
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…rooms,” says Monique Maniet, who designed the house with architect Jay Monroe of Flint Hill and builder Joe Keyser of Washington, Virginia. The big windows and high ceilings were things she couldn’t find in the charming older houses she looked…
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…Amy Miles House. England, 1890. © Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Whiteladies House. Moray Thomas, England, 1935. © Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Whiteladies House. Moray Thomas, England, 1935. © Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Whiteladies House. Moray Thomas, England,…
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…In some houses a guest has to wander through a maze of rooms just to find the powder room. And then there are houses that have been added on to by orderly minds. Seven times. Looking out onto the Rivanna…
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MYLITTLEBIRD didn’t get to London Design Festival 2015, which took place in late September. But our pals over at Curbed.com did. You can read what correspondent Ali Morris found at the sprawling show here. Design reaches into the home and…
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…humor through its design and patterns. / Photo courtesy of Anne Marie Moeller. THE FOUR-DAY Smithsonian Craft Show is just two weeks away from its April 26 opening at the National Building Museum. Through the work of 120 American artists,…
…when some houses are selling in a matter of days, sometimes without any open house at all, I get by with decorator show houses and house tours. The ticket price generally goes to a good cause, and the houses are…
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…the ornaments for the White House Christmas tree in 2010. shopSCAD, 340 Bull Street, Savannah, Georgia 31401; 912-525-5180; shopscad.com. THE CARRIAGE HOUSE SHOP This is the shop attached to the Mercer Williams house, you know, the one made famous in…
…pool, once the staging area for horses and carriages leading to the brick carriage house. Tunnels, now bricked in, connect the carriage house to the main house. The carriage house is the center of Edgewood’s added identity as a wedding…
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