Most people start thinking about home additions for an ordinary reason. The kitchen cannot hold everyone at once. A parent is moving in. Two people are working from the same small bedroom. The house is fine, but it stopped fitting the household somewhere along the way. Across Maryland, Northern Virginia, and Washington, D.C., moving is […]
A whole house renovation is what happens when the fixes stop being separable. The kitchen needs work, but so does the flow into it. The bathrooms are dated, and the wiring behind them is older still. At some point, doing one room at a time costs more and accomplishes less than doing the house at […]
There is a difference between an expensive kitchen and a luxury kitchen, and it shows up about three weeks after the photographs are taken. Both have beautiful cabinetry. Only one of them lets two people cook without colliding, keeps the counters clear on a Tuesday, and still looks composed when twelve people are standing in […]
Universal design is the practice of creating homes that work for everyone who lives in them and everyone who visits. That means no separate entrance, no room that only certain people can use, and no equipment bolted on after something has already gone wrong. The house simply fits the people in it. The idea sounds […]
Could you use more space in your home? You may not need to look any further than your lower level. This Gaithersburg, MD home is a perfect example of how to dramatically increase a home’s living space without touching the existing footprint. The homeowners, empty nesters with children and grandchildren that visit often, wanted to […]
A fresh, updated look for her master and hall bathrooms and decks was the goal of this home remodel. The homeowner, a frequent traveler, stays in fabulous hotels and wanted her own home to have the same spa-like luxury that she experiences when she travels. A few must-haves on the homeowners’ list…a fix for a […]
The objective of this exterior face-lift and bathroom renovation was to help a 5-year old boy in a wheelchair obtain easier access when going to and from his house and help him to have more independence with daily activities such as showering and brushing his teeth. In order to accomplish this, the homeowners had a […]
The goal of this whole house renovation was to update and expand an existing Cape Cod style home while maintaining the quaint architectural structure of the existing home. It was important to the homeowners that the remodel fit in with the rest of the neighborhood and be less obvious than many of the other recent […]
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