Abode

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Refreshing the ’70s

In the heart of Earlysville sits a fine brick ranch at the end of a quiet cul-de-sac in the Earlysville Heights...

Flush in a time of drought

Central Virginia is paradise compared to the parched, burning lands of California, Texas, Nevada, and Oklahoma. Here...

From the editor-at-large

There is a long out of print volume published by Princeton Architectural Press in 1992. Its spare black and white...

Drawing inspiration

Fred Wolf grew up as one of six children in a modest Buffalo, New York house, where, when he wasn’t sketching, he was...

Natural woman

Stedman House designer Kori Messinger talked to us about designing a room at age 10, the color red, and being...

Seeing clearly

They say the eyes are the windows to the soul. Surely, this means the eyes are pretty darn crucial. But what about...

The big picture

Buying a condo might seem to be an exercise in ceding control—one has little prerogative to alter the building’s...

At woods’ edge

It’s not always the case that a landscape design can actually encompass the entire landscape. But when a client owns...

Where the heart is

“We wanted something that looked like it came out of the mountain,” said the owner of a house that sits high on a...