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The family room is situated over a bridge the architect designed to accommodate drainage from a slope behind the house.
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KohlMark Group creates architecture in any style.
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China's bold new embassy.
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Leather and chenille mix in the great room, where French doors open to a deck overlooking the riverfront.
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An Annapolis family builds a home to last on the South River.
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Envision’s design for the Recording Industry Association of America.
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Washington-based Envision Design wins 2010 HUE award.
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The lobby boasts a floor-to-ceiling backlit LED wall in a kaleidoscope of colors.
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Highland Park, a stylish new residential high-rise in DC's Columbia Heights.
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In the family room, a fieldstone fireplace and built-in bookshelves impart a welcoming vibe.
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Sutton Yantis Associates Architects designs high-end homes with an eye to the neighborhood.
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The elegant dining room flows into the open foyer.
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Windsor Estates builds top-of-the-line homes with a difference.
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Armstrong Hardwood's Century Estate Walnut Mediterranean.
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New products and designer favorites in carpet and flooring.
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Light penetrates the center of the house through glass bridges set into the floors.
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Behind its historic facade, an urban row house opens to contemporary spaces filled with light.
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Engineered wood floors are made from sustainable rubber trees.
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Architect Amy Gardner updates a cramped split-level into a light-filled example of sustainable design.
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A chateau-style estate showcases the quality of that Pyramid Builders provides.
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Pyramid Builders delivers a high level of craftsmanship and customer service.
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An Easton, Maryland, home designed by Hammond-Wilson Architects.
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Annapolis-based Hammond Wilson Architects designs with an eye to the future.
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Fisher & Paykel Appliances' new CoolDrawer refrigerator.
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Eco-friendly alternatives improve home technology
while providing a greener place to live.
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Silex metallic porcelain floor tile from Italy.
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The building and design industries are creating products and services for a sustainable world.
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Limestone floors and Douglas fir millwork detail the new entry to the home.
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Architect Mark McInturff transforms a 1961 Georgian-style home into a decidedly modern masterpiece.
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The dramatically restored American Brewery Building.
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The dramatically restored American Brewery Building.
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The exterior renovation enclosed a portion of the deck to create a screened-in porch, which leads into the dining room.
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Gilday Renovations creates clean-lined, transitional interiors in a quaint, 1931 Chevy Chase home
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The home, with its cruciform shape and cupola, is reminiscent of the nearby historic Thomas Point Shoal Lighthouse.
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Hammond Wilson Architects brings form and function to a nautically inspired Annapolis home.
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Linea Decor cabinets from Tatari Construction.
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These new products and resources make remodeling easy.
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The revamped front facade of the house.
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Jonas Carnemark transforms a lackluster home in Chevy Chase into a light-filled family retreat.
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A model home in Autumn Wood features a spacious kitchen with the latest appliances.
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Luxury homebuilder Gulick Group designs an enclave that emphasizes the natural beauty of the landscape.
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The architecture of the renovated house is modern, angular and dramatic, designed to let in lots of natural light.
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Reshaping a 1960s split level to take advantage of its fabulous views
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ANV Group's Tennessee Traditional model offers a modern take on a classic Colonial style.
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Builder Neil Puri of ANV Group imbues his custom homes with the spirit of the neighborhood.
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Views of the National Mall can be enjoyed from the dining space overlooking the two-story living room.
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A penthouse is modernized and reconfigured around spectacular views of monumental Washington.
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Detailed millwork, elaborate window designs and a vaulted ceiling distinguish the library of a Colonial-style home Visnic recently built.
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Custom-home builder Ted Visnic celebrates 20 years in the business.
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An expansive lawn slopes upward toward a cluster of homes; in the center is a stately home designed by Stephen Muse.
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O'Neill Development creates an English country village in a Maryland suburb.
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Architect Randall Mars and interior designer Dolly Howarth gave this McLean home a new lease on life.
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A design team updates a 1970s contemporary with a material palette inspired by nature.
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Framed by oak cabinets and shelving for cookbooks, the kitchen centers on a granite-topped island.
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With the help of an architect-friend, a homebuilder transforms his Chevy Chase Colonial.
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The new deck on the porch roof provides an outdoor space off the third floor for enjoying water views.
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Once home to a segregated school, a creekside property on Maryland's Eastern Shore gains new life as a weekend getaway.
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Just minutes from Tysons Corner, Virginia, the house is enveloped in lush gardens and backs onto a forest.
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A designer's creative touch connects a Tudor-style home to its glorious surroundings.
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The pool room was designed to take advantage of views of the property.
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A basement renovation in Vienna, Virginia, gets the full spa treatment
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Architect Richard Leggin took an undistinguished ranch house and infused it with style and character.
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A renovation transforms a bland Potomac rambler into an elegant retreat.
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Anthony Wilder and project architect Marian Mitchell, AIA, transformed this home into an Arts and Crafts-style bungalow.
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Local architects and designers shed light on how to best approach an exterior makeover.
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Artist Suzanne Yurdin has created a home studio in what used to be her living room.
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A major renovation reshapes a once small, dark house into an airy artist's haven.
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Columbia Center by Hickok Cole Architects, Washington, DC.
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The new Columbia Center stands out from its non-descript counterparts with a bold pastiche of light and glass.
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Michael's Table by Alli Tayar/Parallel Design, Finalist.
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The 2009 National Design Awards showcase industry innovations.
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A team from Penn State University raised the trusses on their entry.
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The 2009 Solar Decathlon, a village of 20 one-of-a-kind houses will spring up on the National Mall from October 8 to 18.
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The garden's lowest outdoor room focuses on a fire pit and fountain.
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A design team takes on an ambitious project to overhaul John and Elizabeth Edwards's former Georgetown home.
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Judy and Stuart Sebring's Z-shaped home was designed for easy circulation between indoors and out.
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A custom home in Potomac designed for entertaining marries detail, craftsmanship and a touch of glamour.
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A covered back porch provides
an expansive space for dining
and enjoying river views.
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Volumes of design ideas led two furniture retailers to create their riverfront dream house in Norfolk, Virginia.
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A gabled roofline lends the house remodeled by Carnemark Systems and Design an Arts and Crafts sensibility.
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When a Virginia couple decided to create a home office in their cramped brick rambler, they realized it was time to renovate. While they wanted more space, they also wanted their remodeling project to be ecologically responsible.
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The kitchen is equipped with Energy-Star appliances and low-flow plumbing fixtures.
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Many local builders talk about green construction these days. But few are tackling the movement with the gusto of Gary Nash.
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The focal point of this home is a floating staircase made of lacquered, cold-rolled steel.
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Building green should no longer be the exception but the rule, according to Yuri Sagatov of Sagatov Homes.
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Jeff and Alice Speck, pictured with son Milo, are living green in their new ultra-compact home.
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Living green is more than a design decision for Jeff and Alice Speck. It's a commitment to the joys of the urban mix.
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Leslie Westreich created additional living and dining space on her wrap-around terrace overlooking the Potomac.
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After Leslie Train Westreich moved into a Watergate condominium once owned by former Virginia Senator John Warner and his wife Elizabeth Taylor, her horizon literally expanded.
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Moveable bookshelves conceal the garage doors that complement the casual
yet elegant furnishings by Baker.
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Architect Bruce Wentworth transformed a leaky garage into a new and inviting family room.
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