Sun archive: Dream Home

November 8, 2009

Dream Home

A house to entertain

Two years ago last August, Melissa and Rick Henry decided to sell their Baltimore County townhouse and move to a single-family home.
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November 1, 2009

Dream Home

Couple adds artistic touches in Queenstown

Eight years ago, Jim and Barbara Hutson moved from Chesapeake, Va., back home to Maryland to be closer to family.
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October 25, 2009

Dream Home

Lodge-like design provides country comfort

Mike and Anita Mandis were in the process of working with a designer on plans for a French country home to be built on 3 3/4 acres in Sparks when Mike Mandis took a month off from work and motorcycled out West. As a result of the trip, he scrapped all plans for French country, opting instead for a more rustic, lodge-like design.
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October 18, 2009

Dream Home

All work, then play

Some people yearn for "fixer-uppers" and are not intimidated by the prospect of hard work such as hours spent scraping paint, replacing rotted doors and pulling up old floorboards.
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October 11, 2009

Dream Home

Design based on floor plans and imagination

These are big houses on tiny lots," Eileen Jacobs says of her two-story, all-brick traditional home in Owings Mills.
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October 4, 2009

Dream Home

From the outside in

"It's just what we like" is the way Donna Payne modestly handles myriad compliments on her home decor, calling it "Eclectic with Arts & Crafts."
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September 27, 2009

Dream Home

Thinking big

When Mark Patzschke decided to move, he wanted two things: a new home and lots of room. The 47-year-old information technology director at Maricom Systems found grandeur in a newly constructed, Georgian-style home in the Harford County area of Fallston.
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September 20, 2009

Dream Home

Living with history in Roland Park

When the Spivaks were house-hunting, they equivocated over one home that struck their fancy. That was until someone else showed serious interest. Then the property became a "must-have."
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September 13, 2009

Dream Home

Where kitsch is king

Sue Hart's Towson neighborhood consists of quaint brick rowhouses circa 1947 that appear from the street more cottagelike than the usual two-story Colonial.
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September 6, 2009

Dream Home

Within blocks, a new paradise in old Catonsville

Matt and Sarah Johnson loved their Paradise neighborhood in old Catonsville so much that when they decided to find a bigger home, they were determined to stay close.
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August 30, 2009

Dream Home

Clarksville couple moved Colonial, restored it from ground up

Glenn and Denise Bowman always dreamed of restoring an old house. The time-worn structure had lain vacant for nearly eight years and was slated for the wrecking ball.
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August 23, 2009

Dream Home

A split-level house goes Early American

In 1992, Jim and Toni Johns bought a split-level home in Columbia. What they really wanted was an American Colonial design. But they found the split-level was worth loving.
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August 16, 2009

Dream Home

Good things in a small package

Set back from a two-lane road in Kingsville, a tiny, frame cottage rests amid tall weeping willows. It's light blue in color, with its windows and front door trimmed in white paint.
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August 9, 2009

Dream Home

Picture perfect in Perry Hall

Give an interior decorator the blank canvas of a suburban, two-story townhouse and anything is bound to happen.
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July 26, 2009

Dream Home

Couple finds sanctuary in sprawling county rancher

In July 2007, Diana Ramsay and her partner, Michael Greene, purchased a home that would transport them from city to county - from vertical to horizontal.
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July 19, 2009

Dream Home

At home at the inn

In October 1998, David and Susan Balderson moved one mile across Route 29 in Ellicott City, from the east side to the west, because they wanted to own the imposing Colonial home whose 34 windows always boasted a lighted electric candle.
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July 12, 2009

Dream Home

City girl, country boy compromise

When they became engaged last year, Ed Stone, a Perry Hall native and Kathy Merz, who lived downtown in Federal Hill, began to look for a home. They wanted a new place where they could start their life together.
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July 5, 2009

Dream Home

Solace in the city

Peering into the front window of their future home, all that AMY Grace and Karen Blood could see was a center spiral staircase. They were hooked.
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June 28, 2009

Dream Home

City lifestyle draws suburban couple

When children grow up and leave home, many parents decide to do the same. For empty-nesters Laurie and Robert Weitz, the decision to start over has been a positive one.
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June 21, 2009

Dream Home

Place on a hill boasts million-dollar view

Lisa Pattisall found her dream home the moment she turned her car into its long, winding driveway dotted with evergreens and weeping willow.
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June 14, 2009

Dream Home

Sharing their house is their business

Here is a smidgen of information Barry Werner shares with visitors to his home, which doubles as a business: As a child, he used to play a game of "bed and breakfast" with his grandmother.
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June 7, 2009

Dream Home

Perfect homes sometimes come that way

Back in 2003, friends of Greg Alexander and Paul Williams told them they had found the perfect house for the couple. Five years later, it appears the friends were spot on.

May 31, 2009

Dream Home

Darlington colonial dates to 1810

Two years ago, Jeff Little decided he had enough of the sheep and goats and big barns on his farm in Churchville, Harford County.

May 24, 2009

Dream Home

Dream Home: Baltimore Co. town house features owner upgrades

As Isabella Litchka awaits her husband's return from a business trip, she puts the finishing touches on a home project she has been working on in his absence - the placement of crown molding running along the base of the first-to-second-floor staircase.

May 17, 2009

Dream Home

Castle in a Kit

When Todd Taylor suggested to his wife of three decades that they become the fourth generation to live in his family's Sears Roebuck kit house in Ellicott City, she thought he was kidding. They couple had finally gotten their place the way they liked it, and the old homestead needed more than substantial work.

February 22, 2009

Dream Home

Dream home steeped in history

In December 1986, Patricia Schooley and her husband, Dave, were looking to purchase a very old house on 5 to 10 acres somewhere in the Mid-Atlantic region.

May 16, 2008

Dream Home

A mix of old, new

Five years ago, a South Baltimore property on Jackson Street was a vacant lot next to a bar and littered with bottles and debris.

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