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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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9 Tips for Organizing Your Maine Home

Small office? No office? Jumbled pantry? Local pros address these and other organizational challenges with stylish ideas tailor-made for Maine homes.
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5 Pro Fabric Picks for Your Quarantine Projects

Holed up at home with time to spare? Try your hand at some pretty new fabric décor with these designer-approved picks.
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Inside Out

On Vinalhaven, design ingenuity immerses a New York couple in their wild, waterfront plot.
Robin and Rob Whitten in their sprawling Munjoy Hill garden
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A Blooming Meadow Flourishes — in Portland?

Step inside Robin and Rob Whitten’s sprawling Munjoy Hill garden.
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Shipshape

An iconic chandlery-turned-summer-home for a notable midcoast family is ready for a new generation.
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Gardening with Seaweed 101

Here’s where to find and how to use ocean plants.
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From an Overgrown Farm Field, an Enviable Garden Retreat

A Nobleboro couple's labor of love
“Eight Bells,” N.C. and Andrew Wyeth's summerhouse in Port Clyde, Maine
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Behind the Canvas

Come be a fly on the wall (or, perhaps, a tree) on this rare tour of homes and studios belonging to 11 celebrated Maine artists.
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Making His Own Path

Respect for the climate and natural landscape guide a Phippsburg gardener.
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How to Arrange a Beautiful Spring Centerpiece

Channel your inner Brueghel or Bosschaert with a lush, painterly arrangement like the one Andrea Ault, of Gardiner’s Honeysuckle Way Flowers, dreamed up.
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Field of Dreams

A couple looking for the perfect house lot ends up right back where they started.
Pine shou sugi ban siding defines Josh Gerritsen’s Lincolnville passive house
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Charred Is the New Black

Shou sugi ban, an ancient Japanese wood-finishing technique, is catching fire in Maine.
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