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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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Get to Know Nicola Manganello

Interior designer Nicola Manganello discusses her rustic-elegant look.
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The Money Pit

A harrowing renovation deepens a writer’s connection to her antique home and her adopted home state.
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She Sells Seashells

Ceramic artist Alison Evans crafts her organic, mollusk-inspired pieces in an airy studio within her Boothbay Harbor shop.
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Bartered Organs! Tiny Schooners!

Experts evaluate these and other local treasures in the latest installment of our appraisal series.
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Modern Classic

A historic living room sits comfortably between past and present thanks to clean-lined furnishings and fresh coats of white paint
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Little House in the Big Woods

It's a mile hike in from Jefferson's Egypt Road to our current camp crush.
Architects Chris Briley and Phil Kaplan, hosts of Portland’s Green Architects’ Lounge podcast
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Drinking Buddies

The hosts of Portland’s Green Architects’ Lounge podcast mix tasty cocktails with sustainable building lessons.
Tom and Sharon Minogue sitting the in living room area of their two-story linked Maine yurt
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Living in the Round

A Surry couple finds peace, and an intimate connection to their waterfront plot, in a pair of linked yurts.
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A Most Enchanting Roadblock

Grosvenor Atterbury’s Acadia gatehouse keeps cars out, beautifully.
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Bartered Organs! Tiny Schooners!

Experts evaluate these and other local treasures in the latest installment of our appraisal series.
Saer Huston, shown here with sons Riley, 4, and Keller, 7, built the family’s sauna with a kit from Almost Heaven Saunas.
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Cold Comfort

What’s more invigorating than a shvitz in a backyard sauna? How about sweating it out between an icy dip in Casco Bay and a roll in the snow?
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Period Drama

An architect and his partner infuse their historic home with moody hues and a strong point of view
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