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My Favorite Room | 2024

My Favorite Room Four Designers Share Recent Projects     Elizabeth Reich Crosby Jenkins Associates   This room is a favorite of mine for many reasons. It started out as a challenge; architecturally, we had windows with varying head heights,

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A-List Interior Designers | 2024

A-List Interior Designers     MELISSA McLAY INTERIORS Melissa McLay Interiors was thrilled to assist in furnishing their client’s stunning new home, a farmhouse dating back to the early 1800s. With mature English gardens and expansive meadow views, the property

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A Contemporary Dutch Colonial

A Contemporary Dutch Colonial By Dylan Roche  |  Photography by Adam Macchia   There’s a reason the farmhouse style has enjoyed so much popularity over the years, according to architect J. Everett Schram. “A lot of people gravitate toward it

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Poetry | Clouds

  CLOUDS By Carolyn Forché   A whip-poor-will brushed her wing along the ground a moment ago, fifty years in the orchard where my father kept pear and plum, a decade of peach trees and Antinovka’s apples whose seeds come

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The High-Heeled Gardener | Queen Cleome

Queen Cleome By Kymberly Taylor     The cleome is one of the most complex and beautiful flowers brightening the fall garden. Commonly called ‘spider flower,’ Cleome hassleriana is a self-seeding annual that rises like a dependable pink cloud. Shapely

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Straight Up on dining Out | Caliente Grill

Caliente Grill Homemade and Worth the Wait By Christine Fillat       Annapolis is home to a variety of world cuisine restaurants, reflecting the diversity of this area. Caliente Grill serves Salvadorian, Peruvian, and Mexican dishes. The bar is

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Experience the Shore | 25 Places

Experience the Shore  |  25 Places By Dylan Roche Photography by Jay Fleming     A picturesque region stretching between the Chesapeake Bay and the Atlantic Ocean, the Eastern Shore of Maryland offers a combination of natural beauty and historic

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The High-Heeled Gardener | Gentle Giant

Gentle Giant The Japanese Climbing Hydrangea By Kymberly Taylor     Whether big or small, our gardens are miniature worlds; within each plant is a natural force. Observe the delicate surge of the bluebell, the canna lily’s sky-ward rush, the

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Poets in the Conversation Room

    In a spontaneous back-and-forth style, renowned poet and playwright Grace Cavalieri, recent Maryland Poet Laureate, joins Kymberly Taylor, poet and Editor-in-Chief of Annapolis Home Magazine, to discuss the nature of poetry, why poetry is needed here and now

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Rooms to Roam In St. Michaels

Rooms to Roam In St. Michaels By Dylan Roche  |  Photography by Stacy Zarin Goldberg     There is a reason shingle-style architecture is so ubiquitous in waterfront communities—primarily in the Northeast, such as Newport or Nantucket, but also on

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