New England Home's Connecticut Spring/Summer 2010

The owners of a nearly new house in New Canaan give designer Maureen Griffin-Balsbaugh full license to tranform their purchase from big, beautiful house to warm, welcoming home.

Scaling down doesn’t mean scaling back the style in this Darien cottage, where a mom is creating a sanctuary in her soon-to-be-empty nest.

Its star turn as a show house met rave reviews, but this Greenwich home revels in its new role as a quietly glamorous family sanctuary.

A New Canaan architect lovingly renovates an old English-style cottage, using as inspiration the words of a favorite poem by a literary superstar from his native India.

Three Fairfield County designers offer luxurious appointments for the home.