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1847 Stockton Springs Italianate, the Belvedere, rendered in gingerbread, candy, and icing by owners Ryan Seavey and Casey Guise
Home + Garden

They Manifested Their Stockton Springs Italianate in Gingerbread

It's all there: corbels, columns, and an elegant cupola.
Aaron Letourneau standing beneath a cattle-panel fencing tunnel of gourds
Home + Garden

Lord of the Gourds

A New Gloucester gardener presides over tunnels burgeoning with the bulbous fruit that fuels his art.
Rockport boatbuilder Timo Foster spent five years restoring this 1929 floating home, pictured in Camden Harbor; the owner is currently looking for a more out-of-the-way spot to anchor.
Home + Garden

Dream Boat — Or Floating Nuisance?

In Maine, where some houseboat owners are navigating troubled waters, it depends on whom you ask.
The cherry-red door on Carol Bass and Bob Newton’s Pownal home — equipped with a bronze-colored metal roof and granite patio — hints at the boisterous palette inside.
Home + Garden

Cabinets the Color of Construction Signs Enliven an Artist’s House

Following an unexpected return to Maine, a couple finds peace in an 800-square-foot kit house in Pownal.
Portland furniture maker Kyle Kidwell’s tapered-leg, walnut McCormick table, and matching bench, anchor a cozy dining area designed by the city’s Tyler Karu.
Maine-Made

Meet 14 Furniture Makers Who Embody the Maine Spirit

Your next heirloom is waiting in one of their shops.
The study of Alna's Kingsford Manor
Home + Garden

Their Happy Place Is One of the Oldest Homes in Lincoln County

An Alna couple presides over 250 years of history on the Sheepscot River.
Marty, Erin, Reagan, and Wynnie hang out next to a pale-blue mural designed, Erin Gajan in the living room
Home + Garden

The Perks of Being a Wall Painter

A muralist’s Cape Elizabeth home benefits from her bright-but-not-splashy interior touches.
Designer Jared DeSimio sewing in his Brunswick studio
Maine-Made

Brunswick Designer Jared DeSimio Piles Clothes on His Roof For Weeks — Then Sells Them

His weathered, sun-bleached “Shed Collection” is just one of his upcycled creations.
the fenced garden area at the Willard Gallery in South Portland, Maine
Home + Garden

At a Photographer’s Backyard Gallery in SoPo, Art Blooms Indoors and Out

View works in a garden cottage and on the walls of her house and shed.
A dissected frog quilled by Stacy Bettencourt
Maine-Made

The Maine Artist Pushing the Boundaries of Paper Quilling

“I don’t think people realize the potential of paper,” says Quantum Artistic’s Stacy Bettencourt.
Devin Mauch at work
Maine-Made

The Ballroom Thieves’ Former Drummer Traded Music for Pyrography

Devin Mauch's passion for woodburning inspired him to launch the Wild Electric.
A 1988 commissioned painting of Tuthill by the late New Gloucester artist Reginald Jacqmin hangs in the Tuttle family’s Greek Revival here.
Home + Garden

Who Wants to Buy a Village?

To satisfy his penchant for rescuing, and living among, period houses, a Pittston antiques dealer created his own 19th-century-style compound. Now his family is looking for an ambitious new owner.
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