The leafy neighborhoods along the Potomac River in Washington, D.C.’s privileged inner-ring suburbs offer an ideal combination of urbanity and livability. Yet their downside is the tight lots, closely spaced houses, and busy roads. Mark McInturff, FAIA, sought to preserve privacy when he designed a house for a married couple along the waterway that divides […]
People often talk about the “winds of change,†but for designer Julia Johnston, CKD, CAPS, of Kitchens for Cooking, things had to get awfully windy before change took hold. In fact, it took a hurricane – or three hurricanes, precisely – to transform her professional life.
Up until seven years ago, the kitchen designer spent most of her time running a showroom. But after her showroom was hit by three hurricanes in two years, she accepted that the winds of fate were trying to tell her something. And that something, she decided, was that it was time to take a step in a different direction, leaving the showroom behind and becoming an independent designer.
