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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 Few Good Menorahs

Find a new heirloom Maine-made menorah or a brilliant holiday gift among our picks, available through Portland’s Maine Jewish Museum.
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English Countryside Meets Cumberland Foreside

Old-world vibes infuse a couple's hands-on renovation, pulled off at the height of the pandemic.
author Matt O’Donnell walking past Fishouse, which previously belonged to writer Lawrence Sargent Hall
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For Nearly Two Decades, He’s Toted This Writing Cabin Around

A Phippsburg author finds inspiration, and a 19-year-long project, in a former fish-drying shack.
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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.
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Harness the Maine Outdoors in Chic Holiday Displays

Three local designers show how to get creative with seasonal greens.
Aaron Letourneau standing beneath a cattle-panel fencing tunnel of gourds
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Lord of the Gourds

A New Gloucester gardener presides over tunnels burgeoning with the bulbous fruit that fuels his art.
the lobby of the Lincoln Hotel in Biddeford Maine
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Behold Biddeford’s First Boutique Hotel

The Lincoln Hotel brings a bold, moody palette — and playfully doctored art — to a 19th-century textile mill.
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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.
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