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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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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).
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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.
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.
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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