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verb · past participle of hew
To shape or craft something from raw material — with precision, restraint, and a patience that cannot be rushed.
Each home shaped for one owner. A small number available each year.
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1614 S Street NW · Washington, D.C. Sold
An 1871 historic rowhouse, its stone facade left exactly as found — cleaned, repointed, and allowed to speak. Inside, every surface was re-examined. Original proportions preserved. New materials chosen for how they will look in thirty years, not three.
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4433 Cathedral Ave NW · Washington, D.C. Available
A thoughtful renovation that never pretended to be otherwise. The original character was the brief — the bones were right, the proportions generous. What followed was a careful editing: a powder room that stops you, a library that holds you, a kitchen that performs without announcement.
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3525 Springland Lane NW · Washington, D.C. Available
Brick, steel, and light. An existing structure opened up — Crittall doors drawn to the garden, a stair rebuilt in white oak, a conservatory added where the land invited it. The pool is the horizon line the house always wanted.
Project 01 · Full Restoration
1614 S Street NW · Washington, D.C. · Est. 1891
Designed by T.J. Collins in 1891 and commissioned by the Noyes family — founders of the Associated Press and later owners of the Washington Star — this 21-foot-wide Gothic Revival rowhouse had stood largely untouched for over fifty years. The brief was precise: restore what mattered, reconfigure what didn't, and build for the next half-century.
The original staircase was painstakingly restored and remains the spine of the house. The kitchen is built for serious use: a 48" dual-fuel AGA range, full Thermador appliance suite, integrated stone sinks, Brizo fixtures throughout, and custom herringbone floors. Bespoke art moldings frame every room. The two primary suites occupy the upper levels — the main suite runs nearly 500 square feet; the secondary suite opens onto a private terrace facing the Scottish Rite House of the Temple.
Opening the house revealed what fifty years had hidden — light, proportion, and a rear garden of extraordinary character. Original inlaid brick and over thirty years of mature ivy enclose a private patio that lives as another room entirely. A rooftop deck extends the living further upward. Private two-car parking at the rear, invisible from the street, completes a home that offers things Dupont Circle rarely gives.
Project 02 · Renovation
4433 Cathedral Ave NW · Washington, D.C.
The Cathedral House arrived with its character intact. The bones were right — generous rooms, high ceilings, the street presence of something that had earned its place. The renovation asked a different question than most: not what to add, but what to honour.
The kitchen is anchored by a full Calacatta slab backsplash, lit softly from beneath the upper cabinets. The library — floor-to-ceiling white oak, four chairs around a single round table — is a room designed for staying. The powder room is the conversation: deep navy botanical wallpaper, a floating marble vanity, a backlit mirror that holds the pattern in its reflection.
The grand living room connects four spaces without interruption. Light moves through it from east to west across a full day.
Project 03 · Renovation
3525 Springland Lane NW · Washington, D.C.
The red brick was always the house. Everything else was a negotiation with it. The renovation opened the rear face entirely — black steel Crittall doors drawn wall to wall, herringbone oak running continuously from inside to the stone terrace beyond.
A conservatory was added to the west — lead-roofed, steel-framed, its lantern drawing a vertical shaft of light into the garden room. The stair was rebuilt in white oak with a single black rod rail. The kitchen faces inward, restrained; the sitting room faces out toward the mature tree canopy above Springland Lane.
The pool defines the garden's horizon. It was the last decision, and the one that made everything before it make sense.
— Bespoke
Beyond our portfolio of renovated and restored residences, HEWN works with a select number of clients each year on something more personal — homes conceived from nothing, or reimagined from the ground up.
Renovation, restoration, or new construction. The scope is defined by what the project demands, not by a service menu. What stays constant is the standard: every decision made with care, every detail resolved before it becomes a regret.
These engagements are not advertised. They begin with a conversation.
Renovation · Restoration · New Construction
Washington, D.C. Metro
$4M — $15M+
Limited · By inquiry only
— Philosophy
Restraint is the first decision. We remove until what remains can carry the weight of being looked at every day.
A home should fit the life inside it. We build to the owner — not the market, not the moment.
Execution is the language of luxury. Our trades are partners of ten and twenty years. Standards are held, then raised.
We build for fifty years, not five. No trends. No catalogue finishes. Only choices that earn their place over time.
A home should feel as good as it looks. The details you cannot name are the ones that matter most.
We take on a limited number of projects each year. The work is slow on purpose — measured in decisions, not days.
We listen before we draw. The first conversation is about life, not square footage — how you move through a morning, what you've outgrown, what you've never said aloud about the way you want to live.
Site, light, materials, life. We translate the brief into form — sketched by hand, tested in model, held against the way a morning feels in this particular place at this particular time of year.
Every drawing is a decision. We revise until nothing can be taken away. Materials are specified to the millimeter; samples held in the light of your street, not a showroom.
Our site team is small, senior, and present. Quality is inspected weekly — not photographed at the end. When something is not right, it comes out. This is not negotiable.
We do not leave at handover. A home takes a season to become itself. We return — to listen, to adjust, to see what the light does in November that we did not expect in April.
Cleveland Park · 2021
— The Studio
HEWN was founded on a belief that has not changed: the best homes are not the largest or the loudest, but the most carefully considered.
After a decade building across Washington, we saw how rarely luxury meant care. Too often it meant volume — spectacle, surface, the impression of quality rather than the thing itself. HEWN exists to work differently. To treat each home as a singular work, held to a single standard, built by the same hands from first drawing to last detail.
We take on between four and six projects a year. It is the only number at which we are able to do the work the way we would want the work done for us.
Why the smallest object in a house is often the one that tells you most about how it was built.
A visit to a small mill in the Shenandoah, and the case for letting a floor take its own time.
On the difference between a choice that will age well and one that will simply age.
— Inquire
Two ways to work with HEWN. One standard, either way.
Washington, D.C.
By appointment
info@hewn-studio.com
+1 202 555 0184