Article: Buyer Wins Suit Over Missing Dining Room

Call it the case of the missing dining room.

When Mark Matthews bought a new, $326,000 town house in Falls Church from a Rockville luxury-home builder after looking at plans, he thought he was getting a four-bedroom house with three bathrooms and a separate living room and dining room.

But when he and his wife Dieu Thi Matthews saw the completed town house, a couple of things weren't exactly the way they had envisioned. A set of windows in the front were in a different place, and the living room and dining room were one room.

"It was a lovely place," said Mark Matthews, "except the window looked like hell and, from my perspective, it was missing a dining room."

Angered by what they ...

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