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Homes & Gardens
Homes & Gardens
Elizabeth Bennett

How One Designer Turned a Cookie-Cutter Builder-Grade House Into a Characterful Family Home in Just 3 Months

A large, two-story white brick house with black window frames, featuring a stone patio and a luxurious blue swimming pool with an integrated hot tub.

Moving your family across the country is one thing, but getting your new home ready in three months certainly brings an additional challenge into the mix. This was the predicament presented to Kristin Harrison, founder of Georgia & Hunt Design House.

Her client, a family of five moving from Palm Beach to the Washington, DC area for work, had purchased an 8,200 sq ft. new builder-grade home in the suburb of McLean. They had hit the jackpot with the location in a neighborhood with beautiful, mature trees and ample space for each lot, but needed to move fast to make it feel like theirs. 'They called us at the beginning of March and needed the entire house done by June 7th,' Kristin says.

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