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Washday Floral and Schoolhouse Offer Personalized Flowers and Gifts in Fallston

Honoring the history of an early 20th-century school building, sisters Cortney Rudez and Tiffany Rueckert have have converted it into a boutique, floral shop, and community hub.

Home & Living

A Beloved Rehoboth Beach House Gets a Refresh

How the design team brought new life to a family's summer headquarters, while paying homage to their late matriarch.

Home & Living

Take a Look Inside This Lauraville Victorian Filled with Bold and Vibrant Colors

The Yukna family—Jenny, Ethan, Santi, and Sinjin—decorates their circa 1915 home with vintage, free-spirited finds.

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2025 Best of Baltimore

August 2025

Home & Living

Baltimore Home & Design Award Winners 2025

We salute the best in local architecture and interiors.

Home & Living

Hello, Neighbor: Hampton

Much of the former 25,000-acre Hampton historical site—once owned by Maryland’s Ridgely family—is now filled with tree-lined streets, ample suburban properties, and a mix of largely Colonial and ranch-style homes.

Arts & Culture

The Maryland Daffodil Society—The Oldest in America—Prepares for its 100th Show

The display is one of the nation’s largest, with as many as 210 horticulture classes, as well as others for design and photography.

Home & Living

Step Inside This Butchers Hill Home Filled With Unique Artifacts

Mike Weikert, the co-executive director of MICA's new Center for Creative Impact, displays items that are unique in their form, function, and history.

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Best of Baltimore Readers’ Poll 2025

Vote for your favorites in this year's Readers' Poll.

Travel & Outdoors

All the Tips You Need to Start Your Spring Yard Cleanup

Your yard is part of a larger ecosystem. Think before you purge.

Home & Living

Essay: When a Kitchen Renovation Means Starting From the Ground Up—Literally

Here’s the thing about old houses. If you watch enough home renovation television, you will be led to believe they are charming. Lies.

Home & Living

Hello, Neighbor: Arcadia/Beverly Hills/Parkside

Residents of this cluster of Northeast Baltimore neighborhoods prize the wooded escape of Herring Run Park, the increasingly lively main commercial strip in neighboring Lauraville, and proximity to several schools.

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Crab Fest’s Clash of the Crabs 2025

Let's get crackin'! Vote for your favorites now.

Style & Shopping

Downtown’s Dede.shop Brings Much-Needed Joy to Decorating

The Howard Street home furnishings store comes from owners Ellen Odoi and Yvette Pappoe of interior design studio Décorelle—whose ethos is that luxury decor should be within reach.

Arts & Culture

Filled With Art by Her Father Who Fled Nazi Germany, Eileen Koenigsberg’s Towson Home is Part Museum

After living with the pieces for 50 years, Koenigsberg is ready to release her father’s paintings.

News & Community

Rats: Baltimore’s Long History With Its Most Polarizing Pest

Here, rats have an omnipresence, invading everything from our vacant buildings to our fanciest restaurants, our nightly news to our national headlines, our pop-culture zeitgeist to our personal psyches. And as far as relationships go, it’s complicated.

News & Community

Good Neighbor’s Shawn Chopra Uses His Creative Powers for Good

Chopra's vision—which sparked his Falls Road coffee shop, home goods store, and boutique hotel—has become revered in the local design community.

Home & Living

How to Throw a Themed Holiday Party That Your Friends Will Talk About For Years to Come

Ours was a cookbook club potluck, but when you're the host, you can pick any theme you want—from an ugly-sweater party or holiday comedy roast to a cookie swap or Christmas carol-oke.

Home & Living

A Classic 1970s Ranch Gets a Reboot

Laurie JB Stubb, principal of Place Architecture: Design, shows us around the fully renovated home filled with natural light and rich colors and textures.

Travel & Outdoors

What Does a Warming Climate Mean for Home Gardeners?

Maryland’s growing season is getting hotter and drier, and the number of warm months is on the rise.

Home & Living

This Charles Village Home Mixes Nature with Comfy Midcentury Kitsch

Blue Water Baltimore’s Michelle “MJ” Jenkins shows us around her house filled with color, greenery, and retro relics.

Home & Living

Patrick Sutton Celebrates 30 Years of Making Baltimore Beautiful

The revered interior designer reflects on three decades of loving Baltimore, telling stories through design, and building a portfolio that is as thick as it is impressive.