Design and architecture in our capital
As I write, my kids are packing for our trip to my mother’s beach house in Fenwick Island, Del. So obviously, I’ve got beach on the brain. That’s why I thought of this highly unusual beach-house renovation in Bethany Beach, just north of Fenwick. It’s the work of Ilex Construction, Brooke Steuart Interiors, and Jennifer [...]
So I’m sitting here on a Saturday, sneaking in some blog browsing before I have to run some errands, and to my surprise, when I click on one of my favorites, Velvet & Linen, I see the gorgeous nursery of Terri Sapienza, the home writer for The Washington Post. The full post is right here, [...]
I went downtown the other day to have coffee with Ruth DeHart, the showroom manager at Odegard in the Washington Design Center. She brought a square piece of wood, carved like a screen in the middle, along with her to Starbucks. And there was more where that came from too: I thought I was going [...]
I think there are more recovering lawyers in the design trade than I initially thought. Most of you may know the well-established examples — Darryl Carter and Dana Tydings. But Elaine Block, a former assistant state attorney general in New York whose family just moved to DC, is the third lawyer I’ve met since starting [...]
Susan Pilchard, who is known widely for her workroom’s expert construction of upholstery, window treatments and custom hardware, had a really fun afternoon open house yesterday to host Kitty Kelley and her new autobiography of Oprah. A bevvy of interior designers, including Dana Tydings, Sally Steponkus and Victoria Neale, came to have their books signed, [...]
I came home the other day to find a box on my doorstep, and here’s what I found inside: I’m not normally a candle person, but for Jo Malone? I would certainly make an exception! I had known this was coming, as the PR lady from Farrow & Ball had told me about a partnership [...]
I’ve never had a friend who lives in The Watergate — until now! Pamela Killian, a former colleague of mine at Scripps Howard News Service, retired a few years ago, downsized with her new husband, and recently finished a gigantic remodeling project in their new apartment there. The Mill Company, which was featured in Architectural [...]
Now that Jim completed the tables for our basement (see my previous post here), we’ve turned out attention to the dining room, whose striped wallpaper always made me feel like we were eating in a jail cell: We had already updated the window treatments and seat cushions with a great Brunschwig & Fils pattern — [...]
I first discovered Heidi Johnston of Warrenton, VA, when I was editing a publication for HGTV, and her house, which she decorated herself, was getting huge ratings on HGTV’s Rate My Space. She’s in a new house now, with a new design, and I wrote a story about it for today’s Washington Examiner, right here. [...]
I was happy enough when Mary Douglas Drysdale invited me to a small dinner party on Friday — just a few women eating by the fire, who could pass that up? But it turned out that Mary used the evening to introduce us to Sandra Jordan, a textile designer with Peruvian roots whose alpaca fabrics [...]
Jennifer Sergent. Native Washingtonian. Former editor at Washington Spaces magazine and HGTV. Currently searching for – and writing about – DC’s design voices. Write to me @ jennifer@sergentdesign.com