Category: construction

  • Pima Canyon Kitchen

    The Pima Canyon home won an Grand Award for its master bath and the kitchen won an Award of Merit. Indoor-outdoor connections, an interesting an varied palette, and an open-plan design that emphases high function all grabbed the judges’ attention. Online only; slideshow included.

  • A Sink With a View

    A deft remodel in a center-plan Colonial opens up the kitchen to views of Rock Creek Park. The main island anchors the space, drawing guests in while steering them clear of the cook’s space. For these accomplishments, the kitchen won a Merit Award.

  • Baileyana Powder Room

    The Baileyana Powder Room won an award of merit for its deft and appealing use of materials. It’s a great example of stylish high function in a small space.

  • Woolworth Kitchen Remodel

    The Woolworth Kitchen, a 2013 Watermark Awards Grand Award winner, is proof that universal design can be edgy, stylish, and warm.

  • 274 Bragg Kitchen

    A 1920s warehouse turned family home features an open kitchen that’s the hub of the house. While the kitchen is exposed to the rest of the living area, it’s clearly divided from it by a hard-working prep island that functions as an eating area and storage space.

  • Designing shelter from the storms

    Wildfires, twisters, derechos, hurricanes…they all seem to be getting worse.

  • Design Details: Outdoor Kitchens

    Ten award-winning homes with stunning outdoor kitchens.

  • Sams Creek, Kitchen of the Year

    2013 Watermark Awards Grand Award winner Sam’s Creek also nabbed Project of the Year. It’s an architecturally ambitious house with an inside-outside connection, striking materials, and most of all, a kitchen that’s perfectly integrated into the center of of the house.

  • FourPlans: House-Within-a-House

    Most homes with in-law units isolate those spaces above the garage or in the backyard. Not these! The suites – all complete with kitchenettes, bathrooms, and more – easily access main living spaces and are located on the first floor for accessibility.

  • Looking for Room in All the Right Spaces

    It’s not what you’ve got; it’s how you use it. These four plans offer streamlined layouts with a minimum of dead spaces like extra hallways and little-used formal rooms. Instead, your buyers get hardworking, highly functional layouts.