One of the region's reigning green gurus, Rob Brennan, on how to make an environmentally friendly home.
You could say that Rob Brennan was interested in green architecture before it was cool. Even before Sarah Susanka's iconic book, The Not So Big House, changed the way Americans thought about the...
In projects large and small, these designers are known for their signature use of fabrics.
Textile designer Mark Pollack likes to tell the story of an interior designer who, while working on a restaurant, wanted to use one of his more expensive floral fabrics to upholster the seats and...
Three couples describe how they made the blending of their different design tastes (almost) fireworks-free.
Stacey Phinney's mother was an antiques dealer, so she grew up around old things—but without ever developing a love for them. For Phinney, they were simply the tools of her mother's trade, not pieces...
Primers on drying herbs and forcing paperwhites for the holidays.
Q: I love to decorate my home for the holidays, and forcing paperwhites is something I'd like to try. Does it take a lot of time and effort?
A: Paperwhites are hybridized narcissus. They are...
A Manhattan-esque reinvention creates a home custom-made for Baltimore.
There's a panoramic view of Manhattan's iconic Flatiron Building above the bed in the master bedroom of Jill and Eric Bloodsworth's Canton home. The black-and-white photograph, shot from above...
When catering hotshot Eddie Dopkin wants to relax, he doesn't even have to click his heels.
For 57 years, Baltimore-born-and-bred entrepreneur Eddie Dopkin has seen no need to stray far from his childhood home in the Ranchleigh section of Mt. Washington.
"I've never lived more than four...
Wrestling with dog spots, anemic hedges, and roses.
Q: I'm a lawn nut, but my dogs' urine leaves ugly yellow dead zones, especially when it's hot and dry. Is there anything that can be done to prevent this?
A: Dogs' urine is high in acid and...
The serenity of a water garden or fish pond helps you get away from it all--in your own backyard.
It gurgles. It sparkles. Dragonflies patrol the surrounding flowers and plants, as hummingbirds and finches congregate around it like wildebeest and impala around an African watering hole. It's a...
A couple and their home keep alive the spirit of Samuel Owings Jr.
Judy Burch and her husband, Dr. Joseph F. Williams, live in the historic Samuel Owings Jr. house in Owings Mills. Okay, it isn't really a historic house. It is a replica of the home once owned by the...
Landscape architect Jay Graham gives landscapes a sense of place.
It is a hot day at Wye Hall, the plantation of William Paca on the Wye River. The brick, Colonial-revival mansion (a reconstruction of the original home that burned) rises up on a series of lush...
