Inside the November-December 2009 Issue

Cape and Islands

The best takes time, or at least a second look. Take this extraordinary house with its idyllic inlet/island vista, one of Cape Cod’s bountiful and beautiful blessings. Built...

Design Discoveries, Art and Style, Resource Discoveries

Featured Homes

What could be more relaxing than staying at a waterfront guesthouse? For lucky visitors to this Rhode Island retreat, the answer is obvious: staying at a waterfront...
This house first took shape along Maine’s pastoral southern coast back in 1767. For heavens sake, Benjamin Franklin was alive! If we watched a movie of its construction, we’...
What happens with a big house when the kids go off to college? It gets bigger. This family’s roomy house in Weston, Massachusetts, for years suited them just fine, but...

Interviews

Kyle Hoepner: You've spent most of your life in gardening, haven't you?Kate Kennen: Yes, I grew up on a nursery garden center in Paxton, Massachusetts. My dad owns garden...

Design History

Walter Gropius was constantly irritated by the fact that his design ideals became a “look.” The principles of the Bauhaus constitute a philosophy, he said, not a style. The...

Trade Secrets

If the art of design were a color, how about a warm, nineteenth-century gray like Farrow and Ball's French Gray? Or something more New England in grayscale, such as Winslow...

Special Sections

Learn about the latest in home automation/integration from New England’s digital experts in the Smart Home section of our November/December issue.   Click here to download...
  Click here to download Mountainside Living With the winter weather upon us, who isn’t dreaming of relaxing in front of a warm fire at our own cozy mountain retreat? The...