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Keeping Your Dog Safe From Outside Germs

By Marisa M. Kashino

A germaphobic Washingtonian staffer wants to keep her pet's paws clean

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Want to See Your Home’s Renovation on HGTV?

By Samantha Miller

The network’s hit TV show “Bang For Your Buck” is infiltrating the Washington suburbs, and your humble abode could make the cut

The addictive design series Bang for Your Buck is gearing up for its eighth season, and producers are scouring the area for recently remodeled master suites. Every episode tours three homes with similar renovations to determine which homeowner got the biggest bang for their buck.

Check out this clip from the last time the show came to the District.

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Luxury Homes: Tucker Carlson Trades His $4 Million House for a $2 Million One

By Washingtonian Staff

After selling a house for $4 million in DC’s Kent neighborhood, pundit Tucker Carlson buys for $2 million. Plus—Fox’s Bret Baier and banker Robert Pincus make deals.

Sold: Tucker Carlson collected $4 million for this house. Bought: Carlson’s new home has seven bedrooms. Price: $2 million. Photographs by David Pipkin

Sold: Tucker Carlson collected $4 million for this house. Bought: Carlson’s new home has seven bedrooms. Price: $2 million. Photographs by David Pipkin

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Journalist Tucker Carlson and his wife, Susan, traded houses. The couple sold a six-bedroom, eight-bath Colonial in Kent for $4 million. It has a heated pool, six fireplaces, and an in-law suite. Less than a mile away, also in Kent, they bought a seven-bedroom, six-bath Colonial for $2 million. The new house has a two-car garage and an au pair suite. The former host of CNN’s Crossfire and MSNBC’s Tucker, Carlson is cofounder and editor of the online news site the Daily Caller.

Longtime local banker Robert Pincus and his wife, Roxanne Little, sold a three-bedroom, five-bath condominium along the Georgetown waterfront for $3.3 million. The condo—which carries a monthly fee of more than $4,000—has 2,700 square feet of outdoor terraces with views of the Potomac River and the Kennedy Center. Vice chair of Bethesda-based EagleBank, Pincus is former head of DC National Bank and Franklin National Bank, which was bought by BB&T in 1999.

Lawyer David Webb bought a three-bedroom, four-bath house on Chain Bridge Road in Kent for $3 million. Built in 1936, it sits on more than an acre. Webb is senior managing director for the real-estate firm Cassidy Turley.

FCC chairman Julius Genachowski sold a seven-bedroom, four-bath house on Porter Street in Cleveland Park for $1.8 million. It has an in-law suite with two bedrooms and parking for four cars. Genachowski has led the FCC since June 2009.

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Buying (and Enjoying) A Beach House

By Steve Bailey

Where Tony Kornheiser and Todd Gray spend their summer—plus a look at how the real-estate market is faring from Lewes to the Outer Banks

This five-bedroom in the Outer Banks sold for $505,000 in March. Photograph courtesy of Twiddy & Company Realtors

In July and August, thousands of Washingtonians head to the beach. Among the throngs playing in the sand are news anchors, chefs, and high-profile lobbyists. Here’s where some well-known locals spend their summer—plus a look at how the real-estate market is faring from Lewes to the Outer Banks.

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Category Tags: Luxury Homes

You Should Really Check Out West Elm's New Pop-Up Shop (Pictures)

By Sarah Zlotnick

The popular home goods store has a six-month lease on a small Georgetown space

Photograph by Studio Saldana

At 6,500 square feet, West Elm's second attempt at a retail space inside District lines (the brand closed its Metro Center location, now Forever21, in March 2010) certainly isn't sprawling. But we like it all the more for that. Boasting furniture more in tune with a hip Logan Circle apartment than a stuffy Kalorama mansion, it seems only fitting to cram the goods in a space that reflects the square footage of their actual customers' homes.  Check out our slideshow tour of the store, and head in soon if you like what you see. According to The Washington Post, West Elm is open to the option of sticking around, but only locked in for a six-month lease.   

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Category Tags: Home Design & Shopping

How to Train Your Cat (Yes, It Can Be Done)

By Gwendolyn Purdom

Who says you can’t train cats? Like dogs, they can learn new tricks.

As a cat awaiting adoption, Scooter had three strikes against him. The black American shorthair didn’t get along with some of the other cats and had scratched one of the volunteers caring for him at Homeward Trails Animal Rescue in Arlington. A few months later, he clawed someone else. Leigh Carr, the volunteer who had brought Scooter to the rescue group, was running out of options. She decided to take him to the Veterinary Behavior Clinic in Gaithersburg to see Dr. Kathryn Meyer, a vet who specializes in animal behavior. By the end of her appointment—a standard three-hour session runs $385—Scooter was sitting and jumping on command.

“The doctor said he is a highly intelligent cat and part of his problem is he’s bored,” says Carr, a lawyer who lived in Arlington before moving away this spring. “He needs something to focus his energy on.”

Carr hadn’t considered training a cat. But experts say it’s possible—it just requires time and patience. While dogs are pack animals and thus often eager to work with people, cats are more independent, tend to have shorter attention spans, and sometimes show more attitude. Animal Planet recently debuted a reality show called My Cat From Hell, about a Los Angeles–based behaviorist who counsels families ready to give up on their problem cats.

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Luxury Homes: Former Bush Chief of Staff Josh Bolten Sells at a Loss in Bethesda

By Washingtonian Staff

Plus: Wizards announcer Steve Buckhantz sells in Vienna and other high-end real estate deals

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Former White House chief of staff Josh Bolten sold a home in Bethesda’s Brookmont neighborhood for $1.4 million. He bought the house in 2006 for $1.5 million. Bolten was chief of staff to President George W. Bush from 2006 to 2009; before that, he was director of the Office of Management and Budget. He’s now a visiting professor at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public & International Affairs and cochair of the Clinton Bush Haiti Fund.

Lawyer Peter Kreindler sold a four-bedroom, four-bath Colonial on Dalecarlia Drive in Bethesda’s Westmoreland Hills for $1.5 million. Built in 1951, the house has a koi pond. Kreindler is senior counsel at McDermott Will & Emery.

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Category Tags: Luxury Homes

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