Kip Dawkins

Urban Salon

More than 250 homes statewide will be open for Historic Garden Week April 17-25—including the 1861 Yarbrough house in Richmond's Church Hill. By design “neither nicer nor worse than” the identical house next door, today it is fully restored, full of natural light—and without a single blade of grass.

March 3, 2010 by Neely Barnwell Dykshorn in Inside

Kip Dawkins

Mix and Match

The Federal-style home in the middle of Carrington Row was considered sleek and modern when it was built in 1818—and, thanks to its current owner, it’s still very much so today.

March 3, 2010 by Erin Parkhurst in Inside

Kip Dawkins

A Groovy Greek Revival

Smithsonia, a brick manse in Fredericksburg, has been a girls’ orphanage, a wartime hospital and more. Now it’s a chic mix of old world and new—fitting décor for the fashionable lady of the house.

January 12, 2010 by Neely Barnwell Dykshorn in Inside

Kip Dawkins

Old Glory

Restoring the grandeur of an antebellum compound takes labor, money and love.

December 14, 2009 by Joan Tupponce in Inside