A tweak, not a teardown, for that just-right house

Washington

ACROSS the Washington area, modest Cape Cods and Colonials are routinely demolished to make way for supersized houses.

But there are exceptions to this market trend. On a property adjoining one of the McMansions in Arlington, Virginia, Daniela and Chris Sicuranza, both 40, chose to expand and renovate, rather than replace, their 1955 brick ranch house.