Built with straw bales, a Mount Desert Island home is practical, energy efficient, and beautiful.
With an eye on a quick sale, a couple updates a tattered old house on Portland’s Munjoy Hill — and they like it so well, they decide to stay.
In Catherine Armsden’s Dream House, an architect dissects her childhood home to make sense of her past.
What happens when pros traditionally ensconced in different worlds work together under the same roof? Architect Rick Nelson and construction...
Ben Block of Block Brothers Custom Cabinets in Searsport discusses the benefits of custom casework and dispels the myths. (Hint:...
Perched on a hill overlooking the village and sea, the circa 1865-1870 Harbor House Inn in Boothbay Harbor was constructed...
When I was in kindergarten, the school bus dropped me off at a construction site. My parents were building their dream home on Cousins Island in Yarmouth and I’d spend my afternoons watching from a rock in the muddy yard as my dad worked alongside a carpenter.
"The House is bleak. There is no softening landscape, no adjacent buildings other than a lonely barn to add the warmth that a cluster provides, only sky as the limitless background to a house that is unadorned. One believes Wyeth when he said of the house, 'I just couldn't stay away from there. It was Maine.' "
A couple preserves a family tradition with a new house that bests the original while retaining its warmth and charm.
Landscape architect William Carson Joyce of Edgecomb brings eco-friendly design and a clean, SoCal aesthetic to Maine....