...In the Middle of Our Street

Our house. We'll show you ours if you show us yours! Yup, it's a "Cookie Cutter Contemporary," but it's OUR contemporary and our first home. We lived in a basement apartment in a Dupont Circle Victorian (DC) for six years. We each had a 25 minute walk to work, the grocery store was a block away, the metro stop was ten minutes away. But things started going wrong...horribly wrong. Several sewer backups, floods, caved in ceilings, and rats drove us out of our apartment. Six years ago all we could have afforded in DC was a postage- stamp sized condo, so we knew the search would begin outside of our beloved city.

On weekends, we would escape to Annapolis. Why? Well it reminds us so much of our home town, Newburyport, Massachusetts. Beautiful brick buildings lining cobblestone roads, situated on water, with boaters, and beer and crabs...well back home that would have been boaters, beer, and lobsters. We decided to begin our search in the town that already felt like home.

My hubby lived in Annapolis while in Middle School. His family owned a gorgeous cedar sided contemporary off of General's highway. I think we both had the image of that house tucked into the back of our minds while on the search with our real estate agent. We saw plenty of homes...mostly townhouses that were either way too small or way too large...some single family homes that were utter disappointments..."the cat pee house," the "moldy deck house."

But then! But then!! I spotted a for sale sign in a contemporary development..."let's go check it out!"

The second we walked into this cedar sided house we knew it was ours. Contrary to our basement in DC, this house, built in 1981 by Palmer, was filled with light from the four foot skylight perched above the staircase. The previous homeowner had done a great deal of work on the home, including painting almost every room what I called "FLESH" color. But it was move in ready. Just a few months later that's exactly what we did.

While we always appreciated contemporary architecture and coveted mid-century modern, we didn't really find our domestic style until we found this house. We hope you will tune in to future blogs on how we decorated our cool contemporary.

-K