Comedy writer Larry Doyle is at peace reliving wife Becky’s Charm City childhood.
Six years ago, Larry Doyle and his wife, Becky Lichtenstein, were living the California dream in a 1920s English Tudor home in sunny Silver Lake, a hip Los Angeles neighborhood. Doyle, a former...
We go in search of the region’s best sources of fine art, from Old World to new wave.
Whether you're a budding collector or merely in need of a conversation piece for your living room wall, there is good news, and there is bad news about Baltimore's fine-art-buying scene. The bad news...
A normally landlubbing showhouse designer tackles the ultimate small space to reinvent a BSO player’s live-aboard boat.
The home belonging to Phil and Amy Munds brings new meaning to the phrase waterfront property.
There is no yard to keep up, few neighbors, and no traffic. That's because five years ago, the Mundses...
How to turn a vacant tract into a tableau of colorful bulbs.
A reader has a sunny acre of land in rural northern Baltimore County and had the idea to plant it entirely with crocuses, daffodils, narcissus, and tulips. But after surveying the overgrown tract, he...
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Everything you need to know about selecting a home contractor.
Most times, when Kevin Nau's phone rings, it's would-be customers jabbering excitedly about a glittery new kitchen or that two-story addition they've been dreaming of for years. But every once in a...
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...
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...
