Home & Garden

Prior to starting Unique Kitchens & Baths (UKB), Tanya Smith Shiflett, a Baltimore Native, was a full-time medical sales representative and the loving stepmother of two daughters. “I found myself helping my husband, David Shiflett (a builder and the owner of Esinay Contracting since 2000), with his kitchen designs,” she …

Color Pop When this Roland Park colonial needed a refresh, the homeowners sought advice from the creatives at STEPHANIE BRADSHAW, the Baltimore-based design firm. Thematic inspiration came from the homeowners’ art collection, the perfect springboard for complementary layers and textures, and a certain bold hue: a splash of red that …

A home’s interior doesn’t have to be dramatic and bold to make a statement or lasting impression. Sometimes, less really is more. This is the direction associate designer Elizabeth Reich of Jenkins Baer Associates took when she designed the kitchen and sunroom of this gorgeous  Clarksville home. “We wanted fresh, …

The days are growing shorter; the air is getting crisper. You pull your collar up around your neck to ward off the chill as you sip your pumpkin spice latte and watch Ravens football. Fall has officially arrived. As much as you feel like hibernating inside to watch the leaves …

They say history repeats itself. n this case, interior designer Katherine Crosby of Jenkins Baer Associates found herself updating a kitchen and refreshing a great room for a blended family of seven, with children ranging in age from 10 to 21, whom she had helped move into the same Lutherville …

Away from the crowded streets, the smog and the big-city lights, where impatient drivers fade out as soon as the watercolor horizon opens up, there’s that Blue Ridge-encompassed, history-infused town called Harpers Ferry that really makes West Virginia feel wild and wonderful. And what makes it this way? It could …

An Ellicott City estate is the newest canvas for local designers and the catalyst for funds to help historic Ellicott City continue its rebuild. This year, Historic Ellicott City Inc. opened the doors on its 33rd Annual Decorator Show House at the Belle Vue at The Chase where 21 designers …

Fifty miles outside of Baltimore, along the beautiful Eastern Shore in Chester, lies an idyllic and luminous 102-acre farm that’s causing all sorts of buzz … literally. Amongst the open fields of wildflowers, frolicking butterflies and the occasional stoic bald eagle perched on one of the farm’s grand pine trees …

Downstairs at Harris Crab House in Grasonville, tables are spread with brown paper and steamed crabs. Upstairs, tables are spread with the same brown paper, paint brushes and Styrofoam trays of bright paint — aqua, pistachio green and at least two shades of pink. Here, on this clear, mild night, …

There’s nothing like a gorgeous, well-designed kitchen to set the right vibe for the rest of the home. That’s clearly what Stephanie Gamble of Stephanie Gamble Interiors had in mind when she was commissioned to fix up a newly purchased home in Pikesville. The client, who was relocating back to …