There is a terrific article in today's Washington Post Home Section entitled Straight & Narrow. The article discussed the limitations of light and space in some older row homes and gives great suggestions from current home owners on how they over came some challenges. Though most of our homeowners have raved about the natural light in our homes, what with triple and quadruple windows in our Albany Grove model home or the 6'6" windows and sky light shafts in our Lombard Court model home, living in a row home or townhouse present certain obstacles. Click the below link and learn how these savvyWashingtonians overcame some obstacles. One suggestion of replacing a wall with a knee wall anchored by columns to improve the flow of natural light will ring familiar for those who have visited our model homes considering this is exactly what our architect has done with our homes.
You might like to see the original concept drawings done by our architect for Albany Grove in Silver Spring & Lombard Court in Fells Point. These sketches were the inspiration for the homes we are now selling. Both communities have gone on to win several design awards competing against the largest and best known builders andarchitectural firms in the country.The historic review board in Baltimore made us delete much of the detail shown above saying, 'it just was not Baltimore,' oh well, the homes ended up quite beautiful and even the Mayor of Baltimore wrote us a terrific letter telling us that she has seen the community and what a positive effect she thinks it will have on the surrounding area. We agree!
