Jim Westphalen

Farm House Modern Mitre Designs

Farmhouse Modern

A house in the Vermont countryside gets a chic new look and state-of-the-art energy efficiency, without giving up a bit of its homey comfort.

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Lake Champlain vacation home

Champlain Tastes

The California-based owners hadn’t anticipated purchasing a retreat in Vermont, particularly one on the tip of a peninsula that points,…

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Brian Mac at Birdseye Design house

Dramatic Effect

The couple’s original plan was to renovate their Richmond, Vermont, house. “We both have very contemporary tastes,” the wife says,…

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Lake Champlain House

Peak of Perfection

Some people spend years searching for the perfect parcel of land. Neil Gillespie spent mere minutes. It was October 2005,…

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Cynthia Knauf

Perfect Harmony: Inventive Landscape Design in Vermont

An inventive landscape designer surrounds a house with a composition of color and texture that’s beautifully in tune with the fields, forests, and mountains of north central Vermont.

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Birsdeye design minimalist

Hip to Be Square: A vacation home that’s sleek, spare and unabashedly modern

It’s sleek, spare, and unabashedly modern, but this cleverly conceived vacation home fits right in with its more traditional neighbors.

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Marcus Gleysteen exterior

Mountain Magic: A Modern Take on The Ski House

A Vermont vacation home has all the familiar ski-house design elements, from its stone facade to its fir-paneled interior walls. Still, this stylish family getaway is anything but predictable.

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Notes from the Field: Orphaned Photos

By Kyle Hoepner One of the hardest things about editing is, well, editing—that is, pruning, leaving things out. Many of…

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Editor’s Miscellany: Wonderful Woods

By Kyle Hoepner  On another day I might go on about the more flamboyant tropical woods used in twenty-first-century residential…

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Notes From the Field: Designing for Guests: “Made INN Vermont”

By Karin Lidbeck Brent As a stylist I have the opportunity to work on many different types of projects. Recently,…

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Notes from the Field: The Best Rooms of 2012

By Karin Lidbeck Brent With every New England Home story, we highlight the work of the most talented architects, interior…

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Jennifer Palumbo living room

Sophistication on the Slopes

The first goal was a no-brainer: it was all about the views. The lot, on a hillside in Stowe, Vermont,…

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Notes from the Field: The Art of Homemade Art

By Karin Lidbeck Brent In my years of experience as a stylist for magazines, I have seen many forms of…

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Designer Snapshot: No Boundaries

By Paula M. Bodah Much of Kim Deetjen’s work as director of the interiors studio for the Burlington, Vermont, architecture…

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