Design and architecture in our capital
I always joke around that I can frequently lose my train of thought if someone dangles something shiny in front of me. Imagine my meltdown, then, when Anissa Swanzy of SKD Studios sent me this photo of a newly renovated kitchen in Huntingtown, MD: This shiny little jewel box of a kitchen is all the [...]
I’ve been slowly digesting the October issue of Washingtonian, which contains a large section on dream kitchens. First, I love how every kitchen is so different from the other, and so beautiful in its own right. (And I was tickled that one of them, the “Thoroughly Modern” Capitol Hill project on p. 160, I had [...]
I’m in before-and-after mode this Labor Day weekend, especially since this kitchen project in Alexandria’s Hollin Hills neighborhood is such a dramatic transformation. Kitchen and bath designer Brian McGarry helped the owners go from here: To here, much more in keeping with the Hollin Hills Mid-Century vibe: More on this specific project in a moment. First a note [...]
Kitchen and bath designer Joe Currie wrote to me recently, saying he had decided to stop being an employee at another design firm and establish his own, called Capitol Design. What struck me most about the photos he attached was the sheer variety in style. So many designers say they don’t have a signature look, [...]
We had a fantastic time on a Washington Design Center day trip to the Kips Bay Showhouse last week, which included lunch at the Sub-Zero/Wolf showroom at our sister design center, the A&D Building. Here’s the post on the trip from the WDC’s new blog, right here. You can read about the trip, who was [...]
It’s pretty clear at this point on Election Day night that the Republicans are scoring BIG in the midterm elections. Red being the color of the day, then, I remembered these photos that my friend, freelance writer Catherine Funkhouser, sent of an Arlington kitchen she admires. As you might imagine, this 1850′s farmhouse in Arlington [...]
I just love a good before and after story. To start off the weekend, I’ll send you off with a dramatic kitchen transformation in Potomac, Md., by designer Kristin Peake of Rockville. The gorgeous cabinetry was supplied by Jack Rosen Custom Kitchens, also in Rockville. Here’s the finished product: Now, look at what it used [...]
I love product shots of kitchens and baths precisely because they are fake — the less living done in a room, the prettier it is! I was just perusing the new offerings from the Kohler family of companies, and CHECK out this bath, using new “Cosmati” mosaic stone tile designs from the Obama White House [...]
I was excited to see my first freelance piece for The Washington Post published today — it features Studio Snaidero DC‘s dramatic transformation of a condo kitchen in Georgetown’s Washington Harbor from ’80s-era dark and gloomy into 21st-century shining and sophisticated. You can read my full story on The Post’s Web site, which involves two [...]
I was thrilled to see a story on the cover of the Washington Post Magazine this weekend about Susan Toffler’s Chevy Chase home, designed by the late modern architect David Condon and recently renovated with the help of Designer Susan Vallon. A lot of blogs have already re-posted this story, but what I am most [...]
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