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of things that might motivate homeowners to remake their interiors: Maybe the colors are all wrong or the furniture is outdated.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...
In intensely private Guilford, three homeowners on the spring House and Garden Pilgrimage share stories of their very cool stuff.
Guilford.
For nearly a century, its name has remained a synonym in Baltimore for high prices, closely guarded privacy, and social power. So followers of the annual Maryland House and Garden...
Think of a custom conservatory as a sunroom on steroids.
Who can forget the images of last winter's double-whammy record snowstorms? Now imagine watching a phenomenon like that from inside an all-glass conservatory.
"When it starts to snow, it's magical,"...
Interior designers need not apply: Fred and Jonna Lazarus have it covered with a wealth of personal treasures.
When Maryland Institute College of Art President Fred Lazarus IV and his wife, Jonna, moved into their home in 1979, it was far from a work of art. The five bedroom, 3 ½-bath, center-hall colonial...
Striking central light fixtures should serve as the jewel of any room.
At a recent show house, interior designer Patrick Sutton created a rustic, yet sophisticated, room by pairing a Tuscan farm table with plush, slip-covered chairs. The room has a decidedly timeless,...
On messy mulberries, driveway dreams, and The Great Weed Debate.
Q: We have a huge mulberry tree on our property. Because of its size, the tree cascades into our neighbor’s yard by at least 10 feet. Our neighbor is unhappy about the berries that fall onto his...
These homeowners took the heat-pump plunge to save the planet—and a lot of money, too.
He'd been putting off the big moment for years, but Bill Davidson finally decided enough was enough. The carbon cycle, he says, "is a bad problem to be a part of"—it was heat-pump time.
Last year,...
Boyhood games creating furniture vignettes in the basement have led Jay Jenkins to the top of his field in Baltimore.
Wearing perfectly polished black Gucci loafers, a black cashmere sweater, and gray corduroy trousers, designer Jay Jenkins strides across the Portuguese slate and French limestone foyer of his...
