HOME & DESIGN Magazine Late Fall 2013 | Page 119

ROW HOUSE REDUX A Logan Circle Victorian gets a sleek makeover from KUBE Architecture BEFORE BY JULIE SANDERS PHOTOGRAPHY BY GREG POWERS T he bustle of 14th Street immediately subsides as visitors turn onto picturesque Corcoran Street with its Victorian-era row houses under a canopy of shade trees. One of these stately homes caught the eye of Keith Stiles in 2012; on the lookout for a rental property to invest in, he quickly snapped up this historical, circa-1890 home—and soon realized he’d prefer to live in it himself. “I loved the location, the house has good bones,” he says. “But it definitely needed an update.” RM_Kube.indd 117 10/9/13 5:31 PM