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 […]
Residential Design magazine invites you to enter your best residential work in our national RD Architecture Awards competition (RDAA). The RD Architecture Awards recognize excellence in custom residential design. This is a different kind of awards competition that covers the breadth and scope of work by talented residential architects and designers. We recognize that contemporary […]
The turnover of housing units, especially as members of the Baby Boomer generation face retirement, has considerable implications for home-improvement spending as new occupants update or reconfigure homes to fit their needs, according to the Cambridge, Mass.-based Joint Center for Housing Studies (JCHS) at Harvard University. Because homes sold by older owners are older […]
