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Finding Refuge in Maine

Cumberland Crossing by OceanView offers a safe haven for these sustainability-minded retirees.
cupola-topped home with (non-operable) barn doors and a mudroom wing and porch designed by Freeport design-build contractor Heather Jackson
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An 18th-Century Barn Inspired This Freeport New Build

Inside: Rooms arrayed like stalls and space for scootering and four-square contests.
conjoined homes in Portland’s West End share a nearly identical outer shell
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These Conjoined Homes Have Polar-Opposite Personalities

One devoutly minimalist, the other jewel-box eclectic, they offer design inspiration for a range of tastes.
The study of Alna's Kingsford Manor
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Their Happy Place Is One of the Oldest Homes in Lincoln County

An Alna couple presides over 250 years of history on the Sheepscot River.
Marjanne Rademaker bought plain wreaths for the sunroom and other spots and dressed them up with her own ribbons
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This Homeowner Wanted a Place to “Make Magic”

And that’s what she found in the cozy Rockland cottage she decks out for the holidays.
An artificial tree from Balsam Hill
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How an Avid Decorator Celebrates the Season

This time of year, greens and holiday collections enliven virtually every surface in Molly Walpuck’s St. George home.
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Flawed Pieces Get Star Treatment Here

Ripped canvases, worn pencils, and a table no one else wanted enliven antiques dealer Lexi Joyall’s Richmond living room.
Andrew DeGraff works at a mid-century drawing table in the Waldoboro home he shares with Michelle Provencal
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Their Formal Parlor is Now a Fun-Filled Studio

A couple’s artistic passions drive the design in their Waldoboro Greek Revival.
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For a Writer and Her Little Brood, a Sprawling Brunswick Home Is the Perfect Fit

And, no, she doesn't want to "take in a boarder."
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Even the Display Tables are For Sale in this Eclectic New Shop

Handmade linens mix with quirky vintage finds in one of the oldest buildings on the Portland peninsula.
A 1988 commissioned painting of Tuthill by the late New Gloucester artist Reginald Jacqmin hangs in the Tuttle family’s Greek Revival here.
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Who Wants to Buy a Village?

To satisfy his penchant for rescuing, and living among, period houses, a Pittston antiques dealer created his own 19th-century-style compound. Now his family is looking for an ambitious new owner.
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Five Minutes With Evelyn Wong

The Portland interdisciplinary artist and founder of Fireball Bookbindery on her high-school side hustle, making art that bridges cultures, and trying water bugs.
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