Oprah Winfrey, Hillary Clinton, and Queen Elizabeth are among former customers of what is now Waterford Puzzle Company.
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Jesse Ellison is a Down East contributing editor.
Niftier than its tongue-in-cheek name suggests, the grassroots building standard launched in Portland balances cost and energy performance.
On a Windham pond, a party spot becomes the stuff of childhood fantasies.
For the Dixfield artist behind Flower and Jane, creating lifelike blossoms went from a colorful pastime to a fruitful business.
But if you sell, you’ll be left house-hunting in a seller’s market. So what’s a Maine homeowner to do?
Peek inside Ariel Birke and Luke Olson's 960-square-foot modernist abode in Lincolnville.
A maker of bright birdfeeders and other whimsical ceramics lands in Boothbay Harbor.
From its projector room in the top of a lighthouse, the Shotwell Drive-In marries the new and the nostalgic.
In a brave new working and recreating from home era, Mainers are building inventive studios, offices, and hangout spaces in their own backyards.
They're of a piece with Maine's maritime setting, but require some ingenuity to turn into homes.
The real estate surge is testing Mainers’ chronically uneasy relationship with outsiders.
In South Bristol, a scientist/shellfish entrepreneur’s quirky compound becomes a cheerful retreat for a large Norwegian family.