Luxury Home Magazine Washington DC | Northern Virginia | Maryland - Issue 20.1
LUXURY HOME LUXURY HOME
W ASHINGTON, DC • N ORTHERN V IRGINIA
Beacon Hill Drive, Leesburg, VA 20176
For seekers of grandly appointed homes, unique and coveted within rolling Beacon Hill, this prominent estate unfolds amid stonework, manicured landscaping, and a sense of enduring possibility. Framed by shade and ornamental trees, architectural moments define more than 11,000 square feet of luxurious living, thoughtfully arranged for both grand entertaining and intimate gatherings. A dramatic second-floor overlook crowned by a suspended chandelier sets the tone, while a European-inspired promenade guides movement through archways, light-filled sightlines, and striking focal points. A sculptural spiral staircase, moody solarium, and upper-level gallery draw celebrations toward views of 3.2 wooded acres, stone-clad patios, and distant pastures. The expansive kitchen anchors the home with space for culinary creativity, conversation, and seamless service from the butler’s pantry. A private office inspires focused work, while the lower level hosts cinema nights, creative pursuits, and relaxed evenings with a kitchenette, full bar, guest accommodations, and multiple fireplaces. An elevator leads to serene upper-level bedroom suites, including a primary retreat designed for unhurried living with bespoke dressing rooms, wet bar, and spa-like bath. Completing the estate are a four-car garage and a carriage house offering two additional garages, half bath, workshop, or future studio or guest retreat—an exceptional offering within Beacon Hill, moments from Hunt and Wine Country, historic Leesburg, and convenient routes to One Loudoun and IAD.
Step into a home where history and modern luxury coexist in perfect harmony. Originally built in 1890 and thoughtfully expanded and renovated, this residence offers over 4,100 sq. ft. of exquisitely designed living space with an oversized 3-car garage. The gated entrance, mountain views, and mature landscaping create a sanctuary of privacy and elegance. The fully fenced property unfolds with Frank Lloyd Wright–inspired gardens, designed with evergreens and blooming perennials that create year-round visual harmony. A newly constructed detached carriage house provides a flexible studio space—perfect for guests, creative pursuits, or multigenerational living—connected to the main residence by a dramatic catwalk that marries modern design with historic charm.
Tim Tam Court, Leesburg, VA 20176
| $2,399,000 |
Tucked within a private cul-de-sac and embraced by sweeping acreage and mature landscape, this beautifully appointed Grand Monet residence offers an exceptional lifestyle on over four scenic acres in Beacon Hill. Designed for both effortless entertaining and everyday luxury, the home spans over 9,400 square feet of refined living space where natural light, elegant millwork, and thoughtful architectural detailing create an inviting sense of grandeur. Outdoors, the spectacular backyard has been transformed into a private resort, complete with a custom pool and spa, cascading waterfall, fire pit, layered stone hardscaping, lush lawns, and a cabana. A rare offering combining privacy, sophistication, and true resort-style living within minutes of historic Leesburg, boutique shopping, restaurants, vineyards, golf, and the beauty of Virginia Hunt Country.
6529 Sothoron Road McLean
11,000+ SQ FT | 6 BEDROOMS | 7 FULL, 2 PARTIAL BATHROOMS PRIVATE OFFERING - PRICE UPON REQUEST
Designed by Richard Foster and built by The Galileo Group, this 11,600+ sf custom estate residence is set in the heart of prestigious Salona on a private, beautifully landscaped 1.2 acre site. The estate captures the highest quality construction including a Vermont slate roof, hickory hardwood floors, and all custom cabinetry and built-ins. The bespoke timber frame annex overlooking the serene pool provides versatile space for a separate home office, guests, and entertaining.
Featuring storybook architecture, the rear garden of this timeless estate is a resort-like destination, featuring stone terraces, formal gardens, fountains, and mature trees—all anchored by a resort-style swimming pool, spa, fire pit, and two custom gazebos–all backing onto 15 acres of woods.
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GETTING TO KNOW YOU How architecture, neuroscience, and deep listening shape homes that truly feel like home
Written by Milton Shinberg
Feeling at home in your home depends on many factors, but one of them is how well the architecture embraces who you are, including how you want to feel, how you want to connect with family and friends and with nature. While that seems obvious, it isn’t always achieved in design. It’s worth asking Why?
One reason is that getting it right isn’t so easy. Life and architecture, and how they intertwine, is complicated. For just one thing, how does the architect who’s designing your house know your deeper needs, beyond superficial needs, and your aspirations? Gaining that understanding takes focused, determined, and persistent probing, an in-depth dialogue with your architect. Just asking clients what they like and don’t like is a start, certainly, but a very limiting one.
Knowing the desired pieces of a house, the “program,” such as the number of bedrooms and baths, how the kitchen relates to family space or a formal dining room, or how many cars in the garage, also doesn’t move the collaboration of client and architect beyond the basics. For that, the conversation hast to promote dialogue about how to achieve a truly beautiful, comfortable home that uplifts the spirits of those who live there and does so day in and day out. When you enter your home, the architecture should help you exhale and relax into your private domain. Can that need be translated well and elegantly, with an underlying tone of friendliness, into the qualities of “home?”
The answer is yes. Those are all aspects of “hominess,” and there are ways of capturing that intimate quality with increasing precision. Neuroscientist and Neuroaesthetics researchers have begun to make it a topic for careful investigation and collaboration with architects to help tease out the pieces of this delicate and delicious puzzle.
That’s been my own quest as well, learning more about people, finding paths for getting to know more about the people I design for in ways that make a major difference in design. My book, People-Centered Architecture: Design, Practice, and Education, is a comprehensive assemblage of what I’ve learned about it over many decades of practice and teaching.
A considerable number of insights arise from understanding the sciences of human perception and cognition and from psychology and sociology, something I began studying in the 1980’s. In the book, I share how every one of those insights can land in excellent, nurturing design, in solutions that would not reveal themselves otherwise. More and more, architects are getting on board with that approach.
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Beauty and “hominess” are topics that can keep us talking, and will keep us talking, for as long as architects and clients create places to live our lives.
Even anthropology turns out to be a particularly rich place to dig for architectural thinking. The architectural qualities our very distant ancestors sought for their protection, spaces from caves to caves and rudimentary villages, are burned in, hardwired into our deepest architectural sensibilities and preferences. We differ from them more in clothing than core. Your ancestors should feel comfortable and secure in your cave.
There are other resources that architects are using more and more and that clients can explore them as well. Among them is the Academy of Neuroscience for Architecture, created as a venue for architects and scientists to investigate the underlying forces of architectural experience. The conversations are amazing and non-architects do attend their conferences.
I’ve pursued the neuroscience of architectural experience and design for the last 40 years, both as a practicing architect and as a long-time adjunct professor at Catholic University. I teach a course called Beauty & Brains that my architecture students love. They find the topics compelling and they bring the ideas to their studio projects. That also comes together very nicely in the ongoing conversations I’ve had over the years with the very talented Salo Levinas, co-founder of Shinberg Levinas Architects.
Salo and I used to say “beauty sells,” and that’s true. But why does it sell? That conversation will continue, not just at Shinberg Levinas, but in architectural firms around world now, as it has for millennia. And of course it doesn’t stop there. The conversation isn’t, and never has been, only among architects. Beauty and “hominess” are topics that can keep us talking, and will keep us talking, for as long as architects and clients create places to live our lives.
3150 South St NW, Unit 1A | Georgetown Ritz Residences | $4,000,000
Elegance | Location | Sophistication abounds in this stunningly renovated residence at the Ritz Carlton. The open floor plan allows for optimal entertaining and enjoyment. Complete with spectacular bar with 3 large wine/beverage refrigerators. Custom up-lighting. Customs closets. Quality craftsmanship. This 2 bedroom has been transformed. Special architectural touches and accents throughout. Spa-like Master Bath comes complete with it’s own Sauna. Extra large Primary closet has custom built-ins. Balconies, and terraces. The Residences at Georgetown offers unparalleled, 5-star service and steps to waterfront, park, restaurants and all that Georgetown has to offer.
New Construction
7008 Amy Lane | Bethesda, MD | $3,295,000
6BD I 6.5BA I 6,300 FINISHED SQ FT. Scheduled for completion Apr/May 2026. Architectural distinction meets educational excellence in coveted Cohasset. This 6300 sq ft contemporary estate, now under construction—notably larger than comparable new construction in the area—offers 6 bedrooms and 6.5 baths within the nationally ranked Walt Whitman HS cluster. Sunlit interiors showcase exceptional scale and meticulous craftsmanship throughout: chef’s kitchen with oversized island, sophisticated family room with sculptural fireplace, and an expansive primary suite with spa-inspired bath. The finished lower level features a recreation room, custom wet bar, and walk-out access. Multiple outdoor living spaces include covered lounge and private patio. This is a strategic acquisition in one of Montgomery County’s most sought-after locations, where superior schools, generous proportions, and prime positioning converge. Please go to www.7008AmyLane.com for complete details. Scheduled for delivery this April/May of 2026. (Photos shown depict a similar home built by the same builder in 2025.)
5036 Corsair Ter | Mineral VA
Welcome to an extraordinary custom-built Lake Anna estate at 5036 Corsair Terrace, showcasing 1,147 feet of private shoreline and perfectly set on 8.66 acres of pristine waterfront in Mineral, Virginia. Originally crafted in 1988 and meticulously maintained, this private retreat blends timeless craftsmanship with sweeping, unobstructed lake views—creating a lifestyle of elegance, tranquility, and refined resort-style living.
1718 SW 27th Street | Ocala FL
This stunning French Manor–style residence offers 5 bedrooms, 4.5 bathrooms, an office, and a flex room / Gym / In-law Suite across 4,087 sq. ft. of finished living space (5,440 sq. ft. under roof). Step through the custom wood-arched entry doors into your private courtyard oasis, featuring a spectacular walk-in swimming pool, two-sided fireplace, and a fully equipped entertainment room with double-door access to the great room, dining area, and gourmet kitchen.
3944 OYSTER HOUSE RD | BROOMES ISLAND | ISLAND CREEK
$2,800,000 | Commercial & Residential
50447 HAYES BEACH ROAD, SCOTLAND | DEEP CREEK
$1,150,000 | 57+ Acres, 4,800’ Shoreline
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O 410-394-0990 | M 410-610-4045 | Web: L veChesapeake.com
Waterfront. Land and Farm. Condominium. Commercial. Serving Southern Maryland since 1992
THAMES AVE, LEXINGTON PARK | $1,099,000 50+ ACRES Industrial zoning, 1/4 mile from Patuxent NAS!
194 HARBOR DR, LUSBY | MILL CREEK
$1,100,000 | Deep Water Pier, Boathouse
43589 Edison Club Court | Ashburn, VA 20147 | $2,995,000
This meticulously upgraded residence was designed for both grand entertaining and calm retreats. This home sits in a cul-de-sac, with a sub-community of 12 homes. Quiet street and once the Former Model Home. Nestled in the gated Belmont Country Club community, this custom semi-built estate sits on approximately 0.54 acres with impressive views of a golf course and serene lake from the upper-level terrace.
6 bedrooms | 4.2 baths | 4 car garage | salt water pool
Built by Captain Beriah Maybury in 1772 and known as the Kings’ Arms Tavern, this Historically designated property is a MUST SEE! This Five-Bay wide brick Single Family Home sits on top of a high scored stone foundation. 9.5 foot ceilings illuminated by nearly floor to ceiling windows showcase a lovely Library with built-In Bookcases and a wood burning Fireplace; a Two Room Parlor, also with a wood burning Fireplace; an addition erected possibly as early as the 1830’s includes a large Dining Room with high domed ceiling, kitchen, a brick patio and English garden. The upstairs 4 Bedrooms, 3 with their own wood burning Fireplace, wood floors, 2 full Baths and laundry provide plenty of room! The partially finished basement, most recently used as a woodworking shop, has a separate street entrance and could possibly be reimagined as additional living space. The long, gated driveway leads to 2 garage spaces and parking for an additional 6 cars.
