Inside the New England Home's Connecticut Summer 2012 Issue

Homes and Gardens, Featured Homes, Connecticut, Fairfield County

The classic Shingle-style house in the Cos Cob section of Greenwich looks conservative and contextual—right in keeping with the sturdy, no-nonsense Yankee architecture that...

Featured Homes, Fairfield County, Homes and Gardens, Connecticut

Cleaning out a closet—shedding the gaudy Hawaiian shirt you never wore and those outdated shoes—is one thing. Editing years of acquired furniture and keepsakes is quite...

Featured Homes

Anyone who believes an eighteenth-century house should always be period-appropriate has only to visit the home of interior designer John Roch and architect Richard Campbell...
There’s an old adage that says you only get one chance to make a first impression. But when it comes to houses, you usually get two chances: both the driveway and entrance...

Artistry, Art and Style, Artists and Artisans

A hard spring rain is falling, the kind that forms angry little vees when it hits the pavement. But Frances Palmer is smiling as she descends the stone steps in front of her...

Design Ideas, Homes and Gardens, Great Outdoors

These homeowners had seven acres on which to grow things. But when four adjacent acres came onto the real estate market, the husband snapped them up. “He had two compelling...

Design Discoveries, Art and Style, Resource Discoveries, Art and Style, Artists and Artisans

Pewter is old. An alloy that dates back more than 2,000 years, it’s composed of tin (90 percent or more), antimony and copper, so it’s a fairly common metal, used more for...