Inside the September-October 2012 Issue

Featured Homes

For half a century, this three-story house had operated as the Spray Cliff Inn, hosting legions of happy guests. There were music-filled receptions and endless celebrations...
“All he ever wanted was a house on a lake,” says the wife about her husband. • So in the summer of 2009, with three pre-teen daughters who “seemed to all be going in...
Frank and Nancy Selldorff were thinking straight. When they first came to Doreve Nicholaeff to talk about designing a new house on Cape Cod, they weren’t considering curves...

Featured Homes, Cape and Islands

While most everyone else on the Cape is covering the wicker with sheets and lowering the blinds on yet another summer, one couple on Buzzard’s Bay is arranging wood for the...

Artistry, Art and Style, Artists and Artisans

You can see Tom Patti’s work—everything from crisp-edged, multi-hued cubes of glass to entire walls of iridescence that change as you walk by them—in major cities and...

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

Arty could drive you insane if you keep watching him. “Why doesn’t he stop, just for a minute?” you wonder. He can’t. He is busy at his post at Artaic, making custom mosaics...

Homes and Gardens, Great Outdoors, Art and Style, Resource Discoveries, Design Discoveries

Big things—miracles, even—can grow from the smallest seeds. Back in 1991, Boothbay Harbor, Maine, storekeeper Rollie Hale, a self-taught gardener, was planting tea roses as...

Product Showcase

TILE/STONE/COUNTERTOPS Sir Grout is New England's premier grout and tile cleaning and restoration specialist.  Our proprietary color sealing process is guaranteed to...

Homes and Gardens, Special Spaces

Old York Decorator Show House Gracious Harmon House, a private home on the water in York Harbor, Maine, made a lovely destination for the twenty-third annual show house to...