Sun archive: Dream Home
Dream Home takes readers into the houses of Baltimore area residents who have found their ideal home, whether it be a mansion, rowhouse or two-room cabin.
July 5, 2009
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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.
June 28, 2009
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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.
June 21, 2009
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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.
June 14, 2009
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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.
June 7, 2009
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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
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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
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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
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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.
May 10, 2009
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Wall of glass acts as a true charmer
It is easy to overlook the stunning black lacquer piano just inside the marble-tiled entrance of Bill Magruder and Stanley Scherr's Mount Washington home. Only a focused eye would spy anything other than the spectacular wall of glass just beyond the foyer.
May 3, 2009
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House blends with nature
In 2002, Lisa and Thomas Baum got engaged on a craggy mound of land overlooking the Patapsco River. Today, the couple, three grown boys, a baby son and a golden retriever named Jasmine live together on that craggy mound in the house the couple designed together and called "River Knoll."
April 26, 2009
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St. Mary's waterfront home open for tour
A winding road narrows in St. Mary's County toward the tip of a peninsula. Here, a partially hidden entrance with a sign that reads "St. Marie's" heralds the home of Loretta "Tiny" and Francis Taylor.
April 19, 2009
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Victorian 'painted lady' was built in 1907
Jeanne Knight refers to her 1907 Charles Village row house as "last gasp Victorian," a description that speaks volumes about the neighborhood and its architecture. While the houses immediately to her north are of Arts and Crafts design, hers bears the hallmarks of late Victorian construction.
April 12, 2009
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From candy factory to dream home
Frank Weatherly's 1983 acquisition of a vacant candy factory in downtown Lancaster, Pa., was a purchase negotiated, for the most part, out of necessity.
April 5, 2009
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Tranquil setting for her life's new chapter
Tina Pierce knew for a long time that one day she and her husband would downsize, sell their Mount Washington home and purchase a condo. The two had always envisioned themselves amid the bustle of downtown.
March 29, 2009
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Colonial as a personal canvas
In June 2004, Randy Woods and Dwayne Harrison purchased a three-story Georgian-style home in the bucolic Baltimore neighborhood of Ten Hills.
March 22, 2009
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Preservationists bought house with history
In October 1996, a northern Baltimore County newspaper ran a notice of public auction for a historic farmhouse.
March 15, 2009
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Hollywood glamour meets Homeland
Shari Elliker and Treavor Erney had no illusions about the half-million-dollar house they purchased last August in northern Baltimore's Homeland. The three-story Georgian-style home, solidly built of fieldstone in 1928 and placed among similar mansions in the Olmsted-designed neighborhood, was a majestic site to behold - from the street.
March 8, 2009
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Sweet Retreat
The white house on San Domingo Creek in St. Michaels is where Jeanne Ruesch has taken to stretching summer weekends into five days with extended family and friends.
March 1, 2009
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Couple has no regrets over move to Hunt Valley condo
When Agnes and Leroy Hawthorne grew weary of having grass to cut, snow to shovel and stairs to climb at their Northeast Baltimore home, the retired Baltimore County teachers thought the time was right for a permanent vacation spot.
February 22, 2009
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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.
February 15, 2009
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Dream home: The Ritz-Carlton Residences
After 30 years in three different northern Baltimore County residences, Maxine Blume decided it was time for a change. Since all of her previous houses were resales, the 54-year-old Long & Foster Realtor promised herself a newly built home. In addition, she and her husband, Dr. Michael Blume, a gastroenterologist at Good Samaritan Hospital, also wanted a change of venue: the city as opposed to the suburbs.
February 7, 2009
Antiques dealers live where they work
At 6 o'clock every evening, the Dandie Dinmont terriers are let out of the back room, Greg Sullivan turns the key to close up his antique shop, and - that quickly - he's home.
January 31, 2009
Chestertown B & B is business and home
Bob and Susan Lathroum had always dreamed of owning and operating a bed-and-breakfast. So 11 years ago, when Bob lost his third management job in 15 years, the couple decided the time was right to pursue that dream. The quest led them from Linthicum to Chestertown on the Eastern Shore.
January 24, 2009
Mount Vernon silversmith's shop is below home
From the time Henry Hopkins III ("Hoppy" to all who know him) was 15, he worked in his dad's Mount Vernon silversmith's shop. A former carriage house built in 1897, the building was converted to a shop in 1936, with an apartment above in the space that had been the hayloft.
January 17, 2009
Kent Island Colonial features themed rooms
Adam and Andrea Weinstein's 12-year-old house on Kent Island was in move-in condition when they bought it in 2006, so Andrea Weinstein was able to start decorating its 14 rooms immediately.
October 4, 2008
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On house hunt, it paid to get lost
Like many of us, Susan Clayton wished for a home near enough to her job so that she could walk to work every day. A co-owner of the Clark Morley Salon in downtown Baltimore, she had been driving from her home several miles north of the Inner Harbor.
May 16, 2008
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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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