When it was time for an upgrade, this couple started by tossing the tub.
Though they had built their five-bedroom, seven-and-a-half bath dream home in 1998, a decade later, a Pikesville couple's master bathroom area—with its laminated vanities, cramped shower, and small...
The lowdown on fruit trees, summer bulbs, and sick-looking rugosas.
Q: I've purchased a small cottage on a lot of less than a quarter acre and I've always dreamed of having my own mixed-fruit orchard, populated with fruit trees that are easy to grow. Could you...
After living for many years as a student—first as an undergraduate at The Johns Hopkins University, then as a master's student of public health at Boston University, and finally as a medical student...
As domestic chicken coops rise in popularity, that clucking you hear just might be coming from your neighbor’s backyard.
Pip, a gleaming, black, long-tailed Bantam rooster, is no ordinary chicken. He likes to climb the green-runged ladder of the family playset and slide down the lemon-yellow slide; he's treated to...
With a designer’s eye for the contemporary, a Pikesville homeowner brings his kitchen dreams to life.
If you think that because most Baltimore kitchen designs tend toward the traditional, they’re all going to look like that, Michael Cohen has a surprise for you: His Pikesville kitchen breathes a...
He may not be coaching anymore, but Brian Billick tackles everything—including his new Eastern Shore estate—with the same fierce attention to detail.
When former Ravens head coach Brian Billick and his wife Kim decided to build a spectacular waterfront home on Maryland’s Eastern Shore, their decision to settle in the Mid-Atlantic for good...
Here are eight great places to get decorative holiday trinkets and trees, each with a unique draw.
So maybe you’re still in the stuffing-and-pumpkin-pie zone, but no sooner have you put away that silver turkey platter than it will be time to switch gears and get into serious bauble-buying mode....
Healing a chaste tree, bringing the mandevilla in from the cold, and forcing crocus blooms.
Q: A couple of months ago, I bought a neglected chaste tree in a 10-gallon container that was understandably on sale. Could you give me information on this tree, its growth habit, and whether it...
Paula A. Henry, home stager and interior designer, on how to quickly spruce up your decor.
There are lots of things that might motivate homeowners to remake their interiors: Maybe the colors are all wrong or the furniture is outdated. Maybe they’re just sick of it. Maybe accumulated...
Chris and Jim Peterson’s first home together as newlyweds was a modernist fantasy—white leather couches, black lacquer furniture, and wraparound decks set in seclusion along
Annapolis’s Severn River...
