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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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Five Minutes with Donna McNeil

The Rockland curator on her design heroes, her church-home’s thrilling surprise, and flying saucer art
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9 Rainbow Finds to Brighten Your Home

Inspired by kids’ cheerful window art, rainbow colors and shapes are powerful symbols of hope this summer.
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The Best Maine-Made Soaps, Bar None

Maine is awash in natural, locally crafted soaps that look as spectacular as they perform.
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A Couple Moves Upta Camp — For Good

How a three-seasons camp on the Pemaquid Peninsula became a four-seasons home
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8 Stylish DIY Home Projects

Homebound Maine creatives have been slaying rehab projects, and so can you, with inspiration from these inventive spaces.
Sprucewold Lodge, in Boothbay Harbor, Maine
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The History Behind Sprucewold Lodge

A log-cabin village has offered relaxation and style among the spruces of Boothbay Harbor for nearly 100 years.
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Hidden Figures

You’d be hard-pressed to spot this Sebago Lake compound from the water or surrounding forest — which is precisely the point.
Amy Pollien stands in front of a hoop house where she keeps art supplies so she can set up her easel in the garden. At her feet is a mound of composting garden waste and other organic materials — a future vegetable bed.
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A Cheerful Mess

Controlled chaos yields a bounty of vegetables and flowers in Bar Harbor.
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Field Days

In Freeport, native plants restore a landscape ravaged by invasive weeds.
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Life Wasn’t Always a Picnic in L.L. Bean’s Vintage Camping Scenes

On early catalogs, renowned artists immortalized the charms, and challenges, of Maine outdoor life, John Bottero writes.
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Bringing Their A Game

A new wave of owners is modernizing Maine’s A-frame camps — are you ready to join them?
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Flashing the Brights

Bold accents and gallons of white paint transform a dark (and fumy) Rockport cottage.
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