Sun archive: Dream Home

6:45 PM EDT, June 17, 2013

Guilford home speaks volumes about owners

In addition to being known for a variety of architectural designs, many of the homes in Baltimore's Guilford neighborhood are often referred to by the names of their former residents of note. Within the space of a few acres, the community includes the Milton Eisenhower house, the Turnbull House and the "Natty Boh" place.

7:06 PM EDT, June 13, 2013

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Renovated garage gets couple in gear for move to Baltimore

"Have I ever got a house for you!" The call came a few months ago from Matt Knoepfle, co-owner with his brother, Mike Knoepfle, of the construction company Building Character LLC. That remark is always an invitation to be amazed at a challenging project that has come to fruition. The brothers are in the business of buying up Baltimore's old and crumbling properties (often in the most sought-after downtown neighborhoods) and adaptively reusing them.

6:00 PM EDT, May 2, 2013

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No longer vacant, Baltimore home is where couple's heart is

Jamila Ward and Lionel Jennings had been house hunting on and off for two years when their agent pointed the couple in a new direction: a formerly condemned property in a revitalized area of Baltimore.

4:19 PM EDT, May 31, 2013

For former Texan, Reservoir Hill is now deep in his heart

It is a long way from Lubbock, Texas, to Baltimore's Reservoir Hill, but Kelly Dale Terrill was up for the change.

12:22 PM EDT, April 26, 2013

Downsizing looks beautiful for one Canton couple

When Gunther and Linda Than moved into their one-bedroom unit in Canton's Anchorage Tower condominiums, they really downsized.

4:16 PM EDT, April 18, 2013

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Dream home: Renovated home gathers family to the farm

When hearth and home — together with a growing family and an onsite family business — are at the center of day-to-day living, a small and dated one-story farmhouse in Ellicott City begins to burst at the seams. To keep their extended family under one roof while preserving the one-bathroom house built in 1954, the Harbin and Taylor families found the only solution was to build additions.

7:40 PM EDT, April 11, 2013

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Family enjoys park setting in midst of urban environment

Situated in the city's Bolton Hill neighborhood is a relatively new development of brick townhouses solidly placed among the late Victorian and early-20th-century structures that once housed the likes of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Woodrow Wilson and, more recently, pianist Leon Fleisher.

4:45 PM EDT, April 4, 2013

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Old Catonsville is happiness squared

Old Catonsville boasts turn-of-the-last-century buildings and schools, fine restaurants, antiques and music shops, and a library. But scattered among the Victorian structures are Arts and Crafts-style homes built in the early 20th century. It is in one of these that the Shaw family resides, just blocks off of the town's main street.

12:26 PM EDT, March 21, 2013

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Living on the bay and loving it

Driving the back roads that hug the periphery of Maryland's shoreline, there is no singular characteristic that defines the homes. The ones that date back to summer-only retreats are usually one-story clapboard structures with the give-away air conditioning unit in a window or two. Some are two-story, farmhouse styles. Many are built with their backs to the Chesapeake Bay or its tributaries.

6:53 PM EDT, March 14, 2013

Dream home: Downsizing to comfortable perfection

Robert and Miriam Stern's condominium in the Annen Woods community in Pikesville is emblematic of their many years together — interesting, colorful, tastefully artistic and comfortably eclectic in style.

12:05 PM EST, March 7, 2013

Townhouse is canvas for 'labor of love'

In the beginning, the search for a new home was all about studio space for artist Tendai Johnson, an instructor at Montgomery College.

12:41 PM EST, February 28, 2013

First-floor remodel creates 'social central'

The ink on their contract was barely dry and the moving van just out of sight, when Richard and Key-Key von Lange prepared to flip the first-floor interior layout of the six-year-old home they bought in Federal Hill three years ago.

7:10 PM EST, February 14, 2013

Dream home: Gardener's delight in Baltimore County

For artist Susan Yonkers, a Maryland Institute College of Art graduate and gardening enthusiast, and her craftsman husband, Bill, a large outdoor canvas was a prerequisite.

6:30 PM EST, February 21, 2013

Couple at home with history on storied property in Jacksonville

People driving down a two-lane road in Jacksonville often slow down at a large Maryland Historical Society marker with the heading "Quinn."

3:00 PM EST, January 25, 2013

Downsizing to an elegant perch

When Maureen Neunan's only child headed off to college halfway across the country, the four-bedroom, four-bathroom Ellicott City house where the two lived suddenly seemed enormous to the 56-year-old divorcee.

4:32 PM EST, January 31, 2013

Restored, restful Victorian beauty in Havre de Grace

An old Victorian home, built of granite and dating to 1896, sits on the corner of two wide, tree-lined streets in Havre de Grace, welcoming visitors from near and far.

6:32 PM EST, January 17, 2013

D.C. transplant finds community in Canton

Blocks of cement for a front lawn and a rooftop deck with a view for backyard entertaining are just two of the amenities that drew Patricia Brunetti from Washington to Baltimore.

6:32 PM EST, January 9, 2013

Chic, colorful and urban fits the bill in Locust Point

Like many young professionals who work in or near Baltimore, Jon and Jenny Kraft searched for city properties when they decided to build a home together.

6:44 PM EST, January 3, 2013

View from the top

Chris and Jamie Swann's Baltimore townhouse off Key Highway features what many would consider a million-dollar view of the city's busy waterfront and beyond. That was reason enough for them to purchase the four-story brick home with rooftop deck in June 2011.

1:41 PM EST, December 28, 2012

Clipper Mill home's sparkle spreads beyond holidays

Daniel Reed's flair for decorating and interior design — especially during the holiday season — is immediately evident at the front door of his very modern duplex in Baltimore's Clipper Mill development. To visit this home is to slip into a winter wonderland; a fantasy in light, color and motion.

2:35 PM EST, December 20, 2012

Finding comfort in cottage filled with collections

Low gray clouds of a late autumn day appear to envelop a two-story cedar cottage and its attached one-story log cabin. Sitting on three acres in Howard County and accessed through a wrought-iron arch down a narrow lane, the property has been the home of 63-year-old Priscilla Griffith for most of her adult life.

November 30, 2012

Living with historical quirks in Havre de Grace

Ron Browning enjoys showing off his historic Havre de Grace home to visitors, and when he has the room, they are invited to stay in his 1868 mansion-turned-bed-and-breakfast.

12:37 PM EST, November 21, 2012

Home for the holidays in Monkton

It is not often that a visitor receives a Dickensian welcome at the front gate of a historic Monkton home decorated for the holidays. Dressed to the nines in fresh greenery, this circa 1840, white-washed brick structure wears red bows and pine cones on green wreaths like haute couture.

November 4, 2012

Dream Home: A family dwelling with kitchen at the center of it all

Most people will say that no matter how big the home, or how many levels and rooms inside, family and guests always seem to gather in the kitchen. Amy Askew, who has lived with her husband and children in their very large, Craftsman-style version of a Dutch Colonial in Roland Park, certainly agrees.

3:37 PM EST, December 13, 2012

Irish spirit warms couple's home in northern Balto. Co.

Europeans would have a laugh at our expense over what we consider an old structure. Nevertheless, Monkton's Stone Haven Farm, owned by Dan Saffer and his wife, JoAnne Duffy, had been standing for eight years when Handel's "Messiah" was first performed. The home's rugged stones braved winter two decades before the signing of the Declaration of Independence and years before Baltimore City became incorporated. By American standards, it's really quite old.

3:23 PM EST, November 16, 2012

Dream home: Twin historic town houses in Federal Hill

A pair of side-by-side brick townhouses might be two of the most lovingly restored homes in the historic neighborhood of Federal Hill. They sit off a wide, brick-lined street. Separated on the ground level by a sally port (a narrow, open passage way), each has a door painted soft gold, each features third-floor garrets and each has windows cloaked in black shutters.

12:11 AM EST, December 4, 2012

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Federal Hill fantasy comes true for couple

Through a stroke of good luck and perfect timing, Polly and Terry Smith became residents of Federal Hill six years ago.

7:29 PM EDT, October 25, 2012

Dream home: Luxury condo is paradise found

GrandView, a condominium highrise in the heart of Annapolis Towne Centre, certainly lives up to its name, especially in the 12th-floor penthouse of Barry and Olga Scher.

7:09 PM EDT, September 20, 2012

Dream home: Top deck in Federal Hill

Most visitors walking along the streets in Baltimore's Federal Hill neighborhood cannot resist peeping into the windows of its restored homes and marveling at the variety of interiors lying behind the rows and rows of brick facades.

4:14 PM EST, November 8, 2012

Dream Home: A former country kid finds happiness in a row house in Canton

Brandon Hamschin grew up next door to a dairy farm in rural western Pennsylvania. So when this 31-year old engineer headed south to work in an applied physics lab in Laurel, Md., he knew a complete change was due and willingly opted for city-life.

6:10 PM EDT, September 13, 2012

New rehab points the way home

Wisconsin transplant Dana Ostrenga has spent the past 14 years on the south side of Baltimore.

7:14 PM EDT, September 6, 2012

Dream home: It's a whimsical life at Owings Mills condo

When Sue Schwartzman first walked through her newly built single-family home in Owings Mills, she carried four paint samples from room to room. All Duron colors, their names — Mystic Green, Viola Satin, Prestige Purple and Violet Kohl — got her creative juices flowing.

2:36 PM EDT, October 12, 2012

Dream Home: An industrial, contemporary redo in Federal Hill

Many buyers looking for a lovely and quaint place to live in Baltimore City would probably have torn down the crumbling wreck of a house (in a perfect downtown location, however) in favor of rebuilding from the ground up. Not so with Kevin and Shelley Horten, who greet their guests at the side entrance of a completely rehabilitated, end-of-group rowhouse in Federal Hill.

3:31 PM EDT, October 5, 2012

Dream home: Collecting walls of whimsy in Canton

Homeowner's hobby leaves an impression on waterfront townhouse.

10:20 PM EDT, September 1, 2012

Dream home: Finding favor in a friendly home

Maura Iacoboni always admired her friend's home, a two-story Colonial-style structure in Timonium in Baltimore County. Little wonder, then, that when the home was put on the market earlier this year, she jumped on it.

3:59 PM EDT, August 23, 2012

Howard couple's beach home is like a fairy tale

Ellicott City residents Rosario and Maria Di Marco never lost their desire to have a second home by the sea in Lewes, Del. To this day, the quiet resort town holds happy memories of summer vacations at Fort Miles near Cape Henlopen Park when their children were growing up.

2:17 PM EDT, August 15, 2012

Dream home: Pasadena renovation creates space for growing family

In the beginning, the Pasadena home purchased by Matt and Jenny Knoepfle was not so much a dream as it was a challenge.

6:12 PM EDT, September 27, 2012

Charming changes give home personality, but family gives it meaning

Lynn and Scott Wegner are used to people telling them theirs is the most unusual home in the Towson neighborhood of Chartleigh. They agree wholeheartedly, even as they enjoy the multiple renovations they have made since purchasing 1950s split-level back in 1993.

4:10 PM EDT, August 2, 2012

Dream home: Color-blind bachelor designs artful space

In 1985, attorney David Snyder purchased one side of a duplex in Baltimore between the upscale neighborhoods of Roland Park and Guilford. The 1929 brick Georgian-style home had a stately exterior but would need an interior makeover.

3:53 PM EDT, July 25, 2012

Dream home: Kent Island couple's neighbor is Bay Bridge

A half-mile or so from the highest point on the Bay Bridge, heading east on U.S. 50 toward Kent Island, you can see a large green house at the water's edge, its 60-foot pier jutting into the bay.

9:15 AM EDT, July 20, 2012

Dream home: Sparrows Point street is window to the past

The Stadlers' story is a tale of two houses on the same riverfront street in Sparrows Point and a dream that began when Tim Stadler was just a young boy.

10:18 AM EDT, July 13, 2012

Deep Creek vacation home is dream of a lifetime

Hanging on the wall of Mike and Jean Tumbarello's new retreat at Deep Creek Lake is an old framed greeting card with a primitive drawing of a brown log cabin nestled among trees aglow with autumn colors. The scene is rendered in crayon with a sentiment that reads, in part: "Jean, here's our cottage in the country. I wish I were in it with you right now. …"

5:35 PM EDT, June 29, 2012

Dream home: Creative use of space

Among all the lovely, quirky, industrial, upscale, up-and-coming and historic Baltimore neighborhoods, Danielle LeClair chose Highlandtown for the nearby park — and the parking.

3:36 PM EDT, July 6, 2012

Dream home: Westminster family enjoys relaxed country living

As you drive up to the Beckers' front door in Carroll County's Sun Valley development, large front yards and a good chunk of land between homes create a warm feeling of country living amid open fields.

5:37 PM EDT, August 9, 2012

Dream home: Overlook Clipper Mill home is thoroughly modern

Overlook Clipper Mill is a community where groups of duplexes — oddly reminiscent of the 50-year-old TV cartoon show "The Jetsons" — rise up in harmony with the grade of the land on which they have been built.

June 17, 2012

Making a connection between heart and home

From the bucolic setting of her country home in Monkton to the gentle hum of the palm leaf paddles on the ceiling fans in her covered porch, Kim Eastburn's philosophy of decorating is apparent.

6:15 PM EDT, June 5, 2012

Open for entertaining

Jodi Fader, a condo owner at Baltimore's Ritz-Carlton Residences at the Inner Harbor, will tell you there's nothing like knocking out a few walls to welcome in a world of light and water views.

1:28 PM EDT, May 24, 2012

English cottage revival in Homeland

John and Leila Juracek's British friends tell them their 1929 Tudor Revival house in Baltimore's Homeland neighborhood is more like an English cottage than the country cottages in England.

12:47 PM EDT, April 19, 2012

Dream home: Southern-style with a touch of glam

There is a small area in Northwest Baltimore where, beyond an imposing wrought-iron gate, a narrow lane provides access to 18 homes of different sizes and styles. Color abounds here, by way of a variety of flowers, bushes and trees showing on the front and back lawns of each house.

4:27 PM EDT, May 16, 2012

Dream home: Condo has waterfront view of history

In July, Joe Zuccaro will celebrate one year of living in a condo in a historic Fells Point tobacco warehouse that he refers to as "a Renaissance bachelor's pad with a million-dollar view."

1:15 PM EDT, June 21, 2012

Dream home: Couple puts personal touches on Perry Hall home

Six years ago, George and Jennifer Klein were looking for the perfect spot to build a new home. They found it in a wooded lot in the Baltimore County development of The Highlands of Perry Hall.

11:12 AM EDT, May 4, 2012

Historic House Tour of Fells Point features a 200-year-old mariner's house

A multicolored grouping of four clapboard rowhouses in Fells Point stands out like Gerbera daisies against the Formstone and brick fronts of its neighbors on either side.

May 13, 2012

Dream home: Parkville condo is couple's perfect retirement plan

Robert Larkin's association with Oak Crest retirement community in Parkville began long before he and his wife purchased a condo there in 2001. The 86-year-old retired Baltimore City police major had contacts with Oak Crest before it even opened its doors.

2:07 PM EDT, April 4, 2012

Dream home: After 20 years, couple remakes their 'old shore home'

Some people purchase waterfront property with the intent of tearing down any structures as soon as possible. It's usually the land they are after.

4:45 PM EDT, April 13, 2012

Designer's dream emerges from Lutherville carriage house

Standing in the driveway of Arleen Dvorine's Lutherville property, it is clear she has successfully realized her dream of converting an old carriage house into an office and home.

1:50 PM EST, March 8, 2012

Villa is perfect start to couple's second time around

When William and Freddi Vaughn tied the knot seven years ago, they desired a home that would merge their lives as two mature adults finding love anew.

February 19, 2012

Dream home: Couple's farmhouse celebrates fresh start

Rick and Mickey Price live on a 340-acre farm in northern Baltimore County. Their rambling, two-story farmhouse sits high and exposed on the land's crest, with acres upon acres rolling softly below and the nearest neighbor over a quarter-mile away.

9:16 PM EDT, March 29, 2012

Dream home: Painted jewel in Cedarcroft

The question had been nagging for almost the entire half-hour spent seated at the kitchen table of Mary Veiga and Jeff Lipkin's home in Baltimore. Just as the urge to know the cost of a thick, pure slab of marble on the kitchen counter is about to trump politeness, the answer is freely given.

4:16 PM EST, February 10, 2012

Dream home: Drawn to water, couple finds dream home on pier in Baltimore

Chip Olsen and his wife, Linda, grew up on Long Island. Their memories, reflected in framed photographs on the walls of their home, are of long afternoons sitting on sandy beaches or idly dangling their feet from one of the many piers along the shore.

3:50 PM EST, January 12, 2012

Dream home: Reservoir of style and charm

Rebecca Yenawine and Mark Carter are accustomed to awe-struck looks when visitors cross the foyer of their 19th-century rowhouse in Reservoir Hill.

January 5, 2012

Dream home: Foreclosure find yields cozy treasure for father, daughter

Most people, unless headed to a specific address, will simply drive past the two-story row houses that line the curb along Fleet Street in East Baltimore. Few are wider than 15 feet; their only mark of individuality is usually found in the variety of front doors. Many of these houses, dating to 1910, are examples of exterior brick restoration, while others still bask in the Formstone glory of 1940's exterior home improvement.

3:14 PM EDT, March 23, 2012

Dream home: Couple finds room to improve in Westminster

Bob Sleeper is a man who cannot be fenced in. While many of his friends are city dwellers, he craves the great outdoors. For this reason, he and his wife, Marian, left a large home in suburban Marriottsville in favor of an old — and much smaller — farmhouse in Westminster.

2:57 PM EDT, March 15, 2012

Dream home: Family enjoys rewards of renovated Patterson Park rowhouse

Often when an old home is in the final stages of an interior renovation, the grandeur of new molding, flooring and light fixtures stands out like a masterfully worked canvas awaiting the addition of the primary subject. Such is the story unfolding behind the new windows of the Alice and Mike Gosse's circa 1920 East Baltimore rowhouse, where the scarcity of furniture draws full attention to the quality of the detailed work completed.

7:56 PM EST, February 29, 2012

Dream home: Cottage is educated choice for former Goucher president

On the 94-acre campus of Broadmead, a retirement community, there is an immediate sense that this isomething very different from preconceived notions about senior life residences.

1:35 PM EST, January 26, 2012

Dream home: Treasuring a lifelong collection

The exterior of Lee and Sue Jensen's home in the Catonsville development of Fox Hall Farms is traditional and reserved. Like its connected group of neighbors, the Colonial-style facade features neutral-color siding, a brick chimney, multi-framed windows and a double-car garage. Even the street seems very quiet.

11:43 PM EST, December 27, 2011

Dream home: Perry Hall condo is lofty perch

From the halls of a condominium complex, every residence looks just about the same. The surprise is often in the sight that greets a visitor when the front door is answered. In the case of Wendy Galinn's condo, the wow factor is immediately apparent.

December 23, 2011

Dream home: 'The Wizard of Oz' effect

Mark Rucci and Randall Franklin's Anne Arundel County home offers a storybook setting.

4:46 PM EST, February 23, 2012

Dream home: Waterfront condo keeps bachelor firmly planted

It seems that everyone at Canton Cove, a waterfront condominium complex east of Fells Point, knows Harvey Goldberg's two-story unit, even if they've never met the owner. People strolling along the harborside promenade can see his two big dogs peering intently from an upper bedroom window. Residents who have never been inside his home comment on the proliferation of plants, brimming wildly over his deck in direct contrast to the manicured lawn beyond it.

3:26 PM EST, February 3, 2012

Dream home: Carroll County split-foyer gets makeover with personality

The fascinating thing about the Carroll County bilevel home of Corynne Courpas and her husband, Scott Markle, is its dual personality.

4:13 PM EST, December 14, 2011

Dream home: Courtyard is heart of Glyndon home

Low-slung rambler offers change of pace for couple.

November 26, 2011

Dream home: Finding a hearth at the harbor

Investor merges family and business at Ritz-Carlton residence.

2:52 PM EST, January 19, 2012

Dream home: Harford duo finds the upside of downsizing

Downsizing often means making big changes in lifestyle. David and Deborah Russell never regretted the decision to do so.

6:43 PM EST, December 7, 2011

Dream home: Fantasy island in Anne Arundel

Couple's laidback Brewers Island retreat, in the middle of Marley Creek, is accessible only by boat.

3:22 PM EST, November 17, 2011

A fresh start

Downsizing after the departure of their sons, a couple finds a compromise in a Roland Park townhouse.

6:49 PM EST, November 8, 2011

Dream Home: Townhome on harbor makes staying put easy

After multiple moves, couple finds a place that really fits.

6:07 PM EDT, November 2, 2011

Dream home: Sudbrook Victorian is a home for the holidays — and beyond

Couple's historic property would fit perfectly into a Currier & Ives print.

7:06 PM EDT, October 26, 2011

Couple's Howard County dream home is mission fulfilled

Frank Lloyd Wright-inspired home fits the bill.

5:41 PM EDT, October 12, 2011

Dream home: Finding sweet comfort at last

Harford pastor and his wife enjoy tranquil living on bucolic acres.

September 15, 2011

Dream home: Couple goes back to the basics with Fenwick bungalow

Tiny beach house dating to 1950s 'is what it is'.

7:10 PM EDT, September 1, 2011

Couple gets custom treatment for Charlestown condo in Catonsville

With two apartments, downsized living doesn't have to be small.

June 2, 2011

Dream home near Chestertown is a Colonial classic

Kent County waterfront farm is home of historic proportions.

12:47 PM EDT, September 29, 2011

Cross Keys condo sparkles with personality

Owner enjoys having space for all of her favorite things.

3:33 PM EDT, July 21, 2011

Dream home: Ocean City's Harbor Island has mayor in residence

Rick Meehan enjoys amenities and serenity of Harbor Island townhome.

1:09 PM EDT, August 4, 2011

Dream home: A casual, comfortable cottage on the bay

After nearly two decades, couple still enjoys Ocean City lifestyle.

12:56 PM EDT, September 9, 2011

Dream home: Delaware cottage celebrates culture of summer

Steve Appel, owner of Nouveau Contemporary, and his family share a beach house that's original in style.

1:41 PM EDT, October 7, 2011

Hillside home has Italian villa vibe

Couple's Harford residence was once 'ugly raised rancher'.

9:32 AM EDT, June 30, 2011

Dream Home: Creating an Ocean City oasis

Bill Allen's beachfront home in North Ocean City is the coastal living and entertaining space he's always wanted.

3:05 PM EDT, August 18, 2011

Pikesville condo is treasure trove of memories

Widow savors collection she shared with her husband.

7:18 PM EDT, July 28, 2011

Former garage coaxed into cozy cottage in Ruxton

Owner took 15 years to transform tiny space into perfect oasis.

3:14 PM EDT, June 9, 2011

Couple restores historic log home in Aberdeen

Renovation has been Stephen and Sharon Hoffman's 23-year project.

3:55 PM EDT, August 11, 2011

Federal Hill renovation brings generations together

Family of women share three-story row house in Baltimore.

7:53 PM EDT, June 21, 2011

Couple's dream home showcases French connection

Empty-nesters fly the coop, moving from countryside to cityside harbor condominium.

5:03 PM EDT, May 13, 2011

Royal duty: Anne Arundel estate was a king's obligation

Family's Arundel estate originated with a king's obligation.

1:31 PM EDT, July 14, 2011

Mays Chapel townhouse is shining example

Couple summons up glam and glitter amid bucolic setting.

2:06 PM EDT, April 21, 2011

Dream home: Silo Point is urban base for ex-military man

Mark Romero finds his dream station at development in Baltimore's Locust Point.

4:52 PM EDT, May 25, 2011

Dream home: Shore perfection in Bethany Beach

Seaside Victorian in Bethany Beach is modern retreat.

12:35 PM EDT, June 15, 2011

Dream home: Fenwick Island Victorian has sea charms

Couple builds beach home on site of former motel.

2:08 PM EST, February 11, 2011

Southern comfort

Couple's riverfront home is antebellum in style and spirit.

12:34 AM EDT, July 8, 2011

America's past inside Baltimore's history

Condo in Little Italy provides backdrop for owner's American Indian collection.

5:22 PM EDT, March 23, 2011

Dream home: Comfort and harmony

owner follows vision for a balanced life in Harford County.

2:14 PM EST, March 3, 2011

Dream home: Modern remake

Waterfront townhome is transformed into contemporary showplace.

1:03 PM EDT, April 8, 2011

Modular home is classy assembly in Butchers Hill

Four-story contemporary home is elegant, with historic touches.

March 31, 2011

Dream home: Estate of zen

Couple's Baltimore County home reflects love of all things Asian.

10:50 PM EDT, April 12, 2011

A home of precious stone

In this house of variegated Butler stone and stained pine, the eye is constantly drawn Adele Gammon puts a fresh twist on a home designed by Frank Lloyd Wright protege — and her late husband — Robert Fryer.

5:39 PM EDT, May 17, 2011

Dream Home: Malt House condo showcases couple's art collection

John Bingle and Bob Thompson's home has the feel of an art gallery, thanks to their many artworks.

3:46 PM EDT, May 5, 2011

Dream home: Ruxton carriage house is perfect roost for Watts family

For Dick Watts and his wife, Marcie, a historic carriage house is the perfect nest.

7:01 PM EST, February 24, 2011

Dream home: Putting it together in Taneytown

Retired couple finds plenty to do in newly built home in Taneytown.

1:25 PM EST, March 9, 2011

Dream home: A perfect fit

Couple's Patterson Park home is eclectic delight.

3:42 PM EST, February 18, 2011

Dream home: On level ground

Couple enjoys living on expansive first floor of a two-story Lutherville house.

6:50 PM EST, January 25, 2011

Couple's retreat

Butchers Hill townhouse is warm and inviting space for two.

January 23, 2011

Traditional living

Couple finds love at first sight in Timonium villa.

December 26, 2010

Dream home: Historic gift

Bed-and-breakfast in Ridgely's Delight is home to the past.

January 9, 2011

Grand plan

Jeanette Cole's Locust Point townhouse reserves space for grandchildren.