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Carrabassett Valley’s Johanna Fowler painted her vintage Maine Central Railroad caboose Benjamin Moore’s Heritage Red as a classic alternative to the car’s original yellow.
Home + Garden

Home Sweet . . . Caboose?

For an itinerant Sugarloafer, a vintage train car in need of TLC was the ticket to putting down roots.
a nine-and-a-half-foot ceiling, large south-facing windows, and, unlike much of the house, decorative trim in the living room of the suspected former boarding house
Home + Garden

A Couple Gives New Life to a Humble Portland Home

Erected in another home's backyard, it may have once been a boarding house.
Sophia Maamouri and Jim Kennedy’s dodecahedral cordwood home, in South Paris, revises the genre’s typical round shape with flat walls that Maamouri felt would be easier to construct.
Home + Garden

Building This Cordwood Home Was a Labor of Love

Nestled in South Paris, it's artful, efficient, and rock solid.
In seven-year-old Richard’s room, he and his six-year-old sister, Evangeline, hang from a pine bunk bed their dad made.
Home + Garden

They’re Cool With Their Kid-Friendly Sebago Home

A family brings youthful energy (and weddings!) to a storied 19th-century farmhouse.
Home + Garden

This Designer Doesn’t Want Her Kitchens to Make You Feel Bad

Aiming to inspire, not intimidate, Catherine Weiland lifts the veil on how her projects are photographed.
Home + Garden

A Portland Carriage House Becomes a Chic Guest Suite

The thoughtful renovation created a snug getaway "that still feels like you're in the stable."
Home + Garden

A Family Returns an 1825 Inn to Its Homesteading Roots

At the reimagined Waterford Inne, there are few reminders of modern life.
Home + Garden

Sustainability and Style in a Net-Zero Subdivision

Industrial, rustic, and mid-century pieces converge in a couple's Freeport Saltbox.
Home + Garden

A Day-and-Night Makeover For a Damariscotta Cabin

Rehabbed and sporting a fresh palette, it makes a compelling yin-yang statement.
Built in 1790 and expanded in 1883, the house is supposedly one of three erected for brothers on the same lot.
Home + Garden

“Everything Here’s a Little Ridiculous”

Curiosities and cleverly repurposed pieces fill a photographer’s New Gloucester farmhouse.
exterior of a renovated Sprucewold cabin
Home + Garden

They Found Their Dream Log Cabin in a Storied Rusticators’ Community

Purchasing this Boothbay Harbor camp leads a couple to put down deeper roots in Maine.
Home + Garden

For a Pair of Artists, Home is an 1889 Grange Hall

In Phippsburg, a couple transforms a Victorian-era farmers’ club into an elegant live/work space and home-goods shop.
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