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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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Five Minutes With Aminata Conteh

The Portland metalsmith and Indigo Arts Alliance marketing coordinator on art that honors family, supporting local makers, and good things in small gold packages.
Built for 19th-century quarry workers, David DesFosses’s place and his neighbor’s formed one building; later, they were split apart and moved to new lots.
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How a Painter Learned to Love His Cottage’s Rainbow Flourishes

Along with other quirks in the 1880 Sullivan place.
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Are These Maine Houses Haunted?

Ghost stories cling to historic houses like cobwebs.
camp designed by Portland architect Will Winkelman on Wood Island in Denmark’s Moose Pond
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There Are Two Ways to Reach This Island Retreat

By boat or by setting across the frozen pond on foot.
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Treasures From Their Past Found a Home Here

Following a tragedy, a family finds a Waterville Foursquare is a surprisingly good fit.
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Have You Seen These Plants?

Wanted for crimes against nature. State horticulturalist Gary Fish on the state’s newest horticultural outlaws (and a warning label for beach roses).
maine-made accessory dwelling units
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Go-Go Granny Flats!

Building pros are betting that an antidote to the affordable-housing crunch lies in Mainers’ backyards.
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Sustainability and Style in a Net-Zero Subdivision

Industrial, rustic, and mid-century pieces converge in a couple's Freeport Saltbox.
Maine female builders from left to right: Heather Thompson, Katherine Carlson, Erin Connolly, Laurel LeBauve, Deidre Wadsworth, Hannah Guilford, Heather Jackson, Sara Simpson, and Ann-Marie Waterhouse
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Meet Maine’s Female Builders

Introducing nine female building pros who are changing the construction landscape in Maine.
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.
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Building This Cordwood Home Was a Labor of Love

Nestled in South Paris, it's artful, efficient, and rock solid.
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Meet Portland’s “Plant Healer”

Nurturing other people’s houseplants, Amalia Bussard thrives.
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Let These Furniture Rehabbers Inspire Your Next Project

With elbow grease and inventive finishes, these DIYers turn drab, second-hand furnishings into showpieces.
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