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From architectural marvels to cozy, character-filled camps and cottages, captivating stories about Maine homes, gardens, architecture, and design.

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A Family Returns an 1825 Inn to Its Homesteading Roots

At the reimagined Waterford Inne, there are few reminders of modern life.
David Spahr sowing seeds of rare and endangered Maine plant on his Washington property
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David Spahr Is on a Mission to Revive Maine’s Rare and Endangered Plants — on the Cheap

He’s growing as many American chestnut trees, sand cherries, wild highbush blueberries, and beach plums as his forest farm in Washington can accommodate.
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
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A Couple Gives New Life to a Humble Portland Home

Erected in another home's backyard, it may have once been a boarding house.
Farrow & Ball’s Brassica — a lavender purple — on the living room walls of designer Marianne Lesko's 1857 Portland Maine home
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A Portland Designer’s Living Room Will Make You Rethink an Overlooked Wall Color

Marianne Lesko had been trying to persuade clients to use the non-traditional shade for years.
the “Moroccan Room” in Heather Jackson and Colin Lindley’s Freeport new build
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A Home Designed With Fun and Family in Mind

In Freeport, a builder’s castle-inspired place accommodates bold colors, eclectic décor — and indoor scootering.
Mechanics' Hall, Portland, Maine
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Union Soldiers, and Velocipede Riders, Once Gathered Here

A by-the-numbers look at Portland’s Mechanics’ Hall, newly minted as a “nationally significant landmark building.”
Maine-made bird feeders and birdhouses
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Best of the Nests!

Five Maine-made bird houses and feeders we think are pretty fly.
Katharine Watson outside her Portland Maine studio
Home + Garden

A Portland Printmaker’s Designs are Cropping Up Everywhere

The flower-packed motifs are destined to become perennial favorites.
Stephanie and Bobby Masland’s 1819 dairy- barn-turned-home was moved from Minot to Harrison in 1999 and rebuilt with most of its original materials.
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They Live in a Barn!

A family trades the suburbs for a quirky 19th-century agricultural building and hobby farm in Harrison.
Josiane Mutangana
Home + Garden

Five Minutes With Josiane Mutangana

The South Portland seamstress on making home décor that bridges cultures, the symbolism in Rwandan art, and mixing African stories with her daughter’s Paw Patrol books.
cookspace with snowy shiplap walls, cabinetry, and a quartz countertop juxtaposed with maple butcher-block countertops, a pine window seat, and a salvaged barn-wood table
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A Fryeburg Kitchen Rises From the Ashes

After a tragedy, a benevolent designer helps a family build anew.
Christina Salway incorporated salvaged cabinets with Douglas-fir fronts, an antique walnut pantry cabinet, and vintage-inspired appliances in the kitchen
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How a Cape Rosier Barn Became a Soaring Kitchen with a Four-Star View

Weathered beams and a hatchet-marked pine floor are among its charms.
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