Design and architecture in our capital
I was at the beach over the weekend, and had a chance to visit the owners of the best little home shop on the Delaware shore: Carolina Street, which I have mentioned briefly in a previous post. Dee Dee and Paul Phillips have lived in Fenwick for-EVER, and they regaled me with stories about old [...]
A tour of the houses around Fenwick Island, Del. You’ll note that I’m not one for the huge McMansion-type beach houses that are going up everywhere — gigantic boxes on stilts. I’m drawn to the ones that are older, with a little more personality, which are a little more, well, LITTLE! The person who lives [...]
First, we are just lucky to have a place to go when we want to go to the beach –but when you see my mother’s house in Fenwick Island, you’ll know that it’s not simply “a place to go.” Mom bought the house when it was still under construction eight years ago, and she was [...]
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