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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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In the dining room, an espresso-colored table and secondhand chairs she stained to match provide rich counterpoints to delicate, vintage-inspired floral wallpaper, beadboard wainscoting with scalloped trim (rendered in Accessible Beige), and aqua linen curtains
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A Wiscasset DIYer’s Thrifty Renovations Look Like a Million Bucks

But her budget-friendly designs rarely break the bank.
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A Hebron Resident’s High-Voltage Holiday Spectacle Stops Traffic

On Thanksgiving, Dan Powell will set his two acres of woods along Route 124 alight with 62,070 LED bulbs worth of twinkling Yuletide cheer.
Above a Design Within Reach sofa, the branches on a spindly pine in the Orcutts’ triptych of a fiery-red blueberry field echo the branches on a moose antler John and his son found while cross-country skiing in Carrabassett Valley
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Whimsical Décor Informs a 19th-Century Former Academic Building

The playful furnishings suit photographers John and Cynthia Orcutt’s former place: an old four-room schoolhouse in Kingfield.
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There’s Plenty of Wisdom to Unearth In a Brooksville Vegetable Grower’s New Book

Barbara Damrosch hopes her guide to growing organic food, A Life in the Garden, plants a seed.
corrugated-steel beds from Ergonomic Gardens
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In Yarmouth, Mounded Vegetable Beds Save a Couple’s Backs

Having built the garden of their dreams, they now sell their steel frames and offer gardening advice online.
the exterior of Prudence and Robert Kiessling's Bremen Cape
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This Bremen Cape Is Filled With the Spoils of a Couple’s Antiquing Adventures

Their treasures frequently rotate between their home and shop, Damariscotta's The Kingfisher & The Queen.
Judy Minaudo standing in the dining room of Kennebunk's James Hubbard House, which is decked out in holiday decor
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Vibrant Holiday Décor and Paint Shine Up a Kennebunk Saltbox

This time of year, candy-colored glass ornaments grace Judy Minaudo's 1751 home, while walls and woodwork in splashy colors and patterns dazzle year-round.
Sarah Whitty measures her prized jumbo pumpkin, Martha Stewart.
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In Veazie, A Grower of Giant Gourds Confronts Hefty Challenges

In her quest to grow a prize-winning fall fruit, Sarah Whitty has battled fungus, nibbling critters, and pest infestations.
welding student at the Shelter Institute in Woolwich, Maine
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The Shelter Institute Celebrates a Half-Century of Home Building

For 50 years, the midcoast school has given novice home builders the tools they need to get started.
asters, black-eyed Susans, lobelias, and mountain fleece crowd a stone path in landscaper James McCain's South Portland backyard
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Tall, Wispy Blooms Create a Meadow-Like Backyard in South Portland

Come September, plants appear ready to bust free of their beds in landscaper James McCain’s garden.
window glass with acid-etched stripes helps prevent bird collisions
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This Durham Home Is Maine’s First Bird-Safe Residential Building

Bird lovers Jeannette and Derek Lovitch installed acid-etched windows to prevent window strikes.
Highland Green resident Frank Strasburger and Tedford Housing executive director Andrew Lardie stand at the building’s future location on just over 3 acres on Thomas Point Rd.
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