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 […]