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Darryl Carter’s painstaking Shaw restoration project One of the city’s top-tier interior designers, Darryl Carter, finished his year-long renovation on a 19th-century commercial property in Shaw. His store and studio are now open.
A photo taken during the construction phase shows Darryl Carter's two-story building at 1320 Ninth St. NW, parts of which are pre-Civil War. There is also a carriage house in back facing cobblestone Naylor Court.
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“We are crafting something, not just building a drywall structure,” says Carter, a native Washingtonian who grew up in Bethesda. “It’s far more expensive to preserve something than to knock it down.”
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A first-floor room is shown during the construction process.
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The property in Shaw had been in decay for years, with missing windows and no working plumbing.
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The carriage house will serve as a studio staffed with designers who work for Carter, and they will advise clients on interior design projects.
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A portion of a salvaged staircase.
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On a hard-hat tour of the site, Carter delighted in old brickwork that workers had uncovered. “I love ruin,” he says. He told the crew, “Do the opposite of what everyone else is doing. Leave the nails in the boards.”
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Carter bought the property in 2008 after searching for a location in “an emergent part of the city.” As the economy shifted downward, his plans were delayed, but the store opened for business Nov. 24.
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Some of the original bricks salvaged in the project.
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Gene Newport works on the second floor of the main building. The project was designed by Carter’s design team working with Wnuk Spurlock Architecture and was built by Glass Construction, which specializes in historic buildings.
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Jeremy Anderson, center, works at the site of what is now Carter's store and studio.
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An existing skylight was kept intact and is one of Carter's favorite features of the building.
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Carter envisioned a personal, European-style store, where customers can buy a candle, organic blanket or a sofa, for example, and have a latte at the espresso bar he’s installing in the shop’s core.
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A worker carries out a load of dirt while working at the site of Carter's new studio and store.
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Carter is keen to be part of the renaissance of Shaw, one of the city’s oldest commercial and cultural districts. “I have never been one to follow the leader,” he says.
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The exterior of Carter's new store and studio in Shaw. The renovated 19th-century building is open for business after a year of work.
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Items on display at Carter's store and studio include upholstery of his own design. In the back is a textile library of hundreds of fabrics for clients to choose from.
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Skulls and antlers are part of the look.
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Shaving brushes and soap mugs are part of the assortment at the new store.
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Satchels and messenger bags of leather and waxed cotton are for sale.
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Handmade pottery is available. These soup bowls were made by Ani Kasten of Brentwood.
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Carter in his new Shaw emporium.
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Cabinets from an old Georgetown estate hold tabletop items made for the store. The lighting in the store was created by Carter for Urban Electric and is available to order.
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The bedding and bath section of the store.
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The store holds antiques and original art, including the map made of license plates hanging on the right wall, a work called “Indivisible” by U.S. Marines Michael Haft and Harrison Suarez.
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There are plenty of hallways and rooms for customers to wander through as they check out merchandise.
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The dining room displays tableware, including serving pieces by local artist Margaret Boozer. The doors open into a courtyard that leads to a carriage house in back, where designers will have offices.
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The textile shears have an industrial look.
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Customers can buy plain antlers or antlers made into corkscrews or cheese cleavers.
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As patrons walk into the store, a bronze lion welcomes them; the stone arch came from an old Potomac River estate.
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