Elsie Freeman’s rambling shore-front borders are filled with astilbes, coneflowers, heleniums, hydrangeas, and phlox.
Really — the owners of this perennial-and-sculpture garden welcome visitors.
Now, curving, crushed-stone paths connect a wisteria-draped pergola, an arched bridge, a pond, and a natural woodland.
Built around 1895, the Ocean House Hotel has reopened with a splashy new interior.
And builds one very charming potting shed.
And there might not be anything that can halt its spread.
On jeweler Aaron Ruff’s multifaceted home, a three-sided, glass-walled bump-out faces the Sasanoa River.
Sharon Eblacker and James Haibach have been rehabbing their 1760 place since 2018.
Molly Ahrens’s property dazzles with Monet-like dabs of color from more than 1,000 tulips.
In an era of sky-high housing and construction costs, it’s little wonder some Mainers are seeing the appeal of a tinier abode.
At the Recovery Room, in Boothbay Harbor, she and her husband restore everything from bar stools to sectionals.
Its cutting-edge timber frame builds are cropping up all over the country — including here in Maine.