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Press Partners

Traditional Home

Traditional Home is dedicated to helping its readers create a home that combines classic beauty and true graciousness, and distinguish ourselves from our competition by being the only upscale shelter magazine with a focus on America's most popular decorating and building style—traditional. Our broad approach to traditional style as both a definitive type of decorating, gardening, architecture, and entertaining as well as an indicator of lifestyle parallels that of our readers who embrace traditions and traditional style but don't consider themselves status quo, conservative, or staid. Our viewpoint that traditional style is dynamic, ever-changing, and self-perpetuating ensures our editorial content is always fresh, relevant, and timely. Our belief that traditional style is a composite of genius from the past and the present ensures our discerning readers will always find something familiar presented in a new way on our pages.

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Washington Spaces

Washington Spaces, which focuses on distinctive design in the metropolitan area, has established a new standard for luxury shelter magazines. Every issue is a sensual experience - with beautiful homes, stunning photography, engaging articles, and unmatched information about how readers can participate in the design process. Log onto washingtonspaces.com to see why no other shelter magazine has succeeded in establishing a true dialogue with its readers the way Washington Spaces has.

Because the area's most unique shelter magazine has such a connection with its readers, Washington Spaces is proud to be the media sponsor of the DC Design House, where 15 local talents have transformed a former boys' schoolhouse into a design powerhouse. These are the kinds of stories our readers treasure.

For information about press for the DC Design House, please contact Sandy Steele

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