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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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8 Home Products with Bold, Maine-Inspired Patterns

Hot off the press: bold prints derived from hand-drawn or -carved designs — and the Maine landscape.
A cedar bridge studded with river stones leads from Ellen Shibles’s front door to her garden, where echinacea and rudbeckia bloom above a retaining wall by Mount Vernon’s Scott Horne Construction.
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Creatures Are a Lively Feature in This Wilton Garden

A friendly gardener creates a vibrant refuge for people and pollinators.
In Sharon and Paul Mrozinski’s collection-packed living room on Vinalhaven, an antique orchard ladder leads to a sleeping loft for their grandchildren.
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Collections Cover Every Surface In This Vinalhaven Home

Antiques dealers curate an eclectic summer retreat and shop in a 19th-century former gas station.
In seven-year-old Richard’s room, he and his six-year-old sister, Evangeline, hang from a pine bunk bed their dad made.
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They’re Cool With Their Kid-Friendly Sebago Home

A family brings youthful energy (and weddings!) to a storied 19th-century farmhouse.
500 hosta varieties carpet the two-acre grove between the Schmidts’ house and the pond
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Hordes of Hostas Call This Holden Place Home

How a simple woodland path became a playfully eccentric garden with lots and lots of hostas.
MDI has lost its share of grande dames over the years — perhaps none more elegant or storied than these three.
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Remembering Mount Desert Island’s Storied Estates

Sooner or later, even the stateliest mansions must face the wrecking ball.
the 1789 Alna Meetinghouse, in Alna, Maine
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Parishioners Paid a Price for Snoozing Here!

In this commanding former church in Alna, fiddling and falling asleep were once punishable offenses.
Katrina Kelley standing in the doorway of her vintage-camper-turned-mobile-boutique for her business, Amphitrite Linens
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Overhauling a Dilapidated Camper Became a Balm for a Newcastle Seamstress’s Broken Heart

Decked out with her hand-stitched goods, it’s now a sweet showroom.
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A Day-and-Night Makeover For a Damariscotta Cabin

Rehabbed and sporting a fresh palette, it makes a compelling yin-yang statement.
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Why Snap a Photo of Your Abode When a Local Artist Can Paint It Instead?

The result: a showpiece that enhances your favorite features, like a garden at its peak — and makes like peeling paint and patchy grass never happened.
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This Freeport Shop Is Your New Happy Place

Stop by Palmer and Company for colorful home and children’s décor — and a pick-me-up.
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On MDI, a New Inn Evokes a Fearsome Buccaneer

The swashbuckling interloper inspired the name and nautical-chic vibe.
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