Inside the March-April 2012 Issue

Featured Homes

"You’re kidding me. This rug is just not for kids,” said designer Maribeth Brostowski. But her client wasn’t kidding. The silvery rug the client noticed in Brostowski’s...
Of course you hire an interior designer to, well, design. But the very best ones do it in such a way as to ensure that, when they depart, the room or the house is all about...
Abby Cahill and Amy Meier met at their first jobs when both were just out of college and living in Boston. They ­became fast friends, shared an apartment and, when their...
A gray mist holds just above the thawing ground on this chilly spring morning in New England. Coffee in hand, Nancy Ross draws the collar of her gray cashmere sweater more...
Have you been concerned about, or confused by, the new light bulb regulations coming into force in the U.S. this year? We asked Doreen Le May Madden, principal of Lux...

Artistry, Art and Style, Artists and Artisans

In his tool-scattered, wood-flour-coated, Billie Holiday–blasting workshop, Silas Kopf is building a cabinet with trick drawers and secret compartments. It’s made of...
You never know what goes on behind closed doors. In a section of Boston’s Allston neighborhood where the unremarkable facades provoke little curiosity, what meets the eye...

Design Ideas, Homes and Gardens, Great Outdoors

    Level BestA three-tiered, terraced plan defined by granite walls and a grove of birch trees integrates the house with the vegeable garden and shed at the opposite end...

Product Showcase

Windows and Shutters Decorating Den Interiors is a premier resource for custom window treatments and shadings serving Boston area locations from the South Shore to...