A couple sit on facing circular sofas next to a piano.
When Bree and Chuck West began their courtship, they knew they wanted to stay in the Washington, D.C., area.
A couple sit on facing circular sofas next to a piano.
It was the best place for the couple to nurture both their new blended family — Bree, 50, was a divorced mother of four girls and Chuck, 58, was raising two sons and two nephews — and their nascent television and film production company, OCTET Productions.
A couple sit on facing circular sofas next to a piano.
Married in 2020, they settled in Potomac, Md.
A couple sit on facing circular sofas next to a piano.
Their five-bedroom, 6,100-square-foot house was built in the late 1980s and sits on two and a half acres. It has soaring ceilings and expansive windows. In the spring and summer months, the view outside the large bow window in the great room is a curtain of leaves.
A couple sit on facing circular sofas next to a piano.
“There’s usually leaves everywhere when you look outside, it’s full and green,” Ms. West said. “So, when you’re sitting here you kind of feel like you’re in a treehouse. The energy is really, really good.”
