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cookspace with snowy shiplap walls, cabinetry, and a quartz countertop juxtaposed with maple butcher-block countertops, a pine window seat, and a salvaged barn-wood table
Home + Garden

A Fryeburg Kitchen Rises From the Ashes

After a tragedy, a benevolent designer helps a family build anew.
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No More ’90s Finishes for This Kittery Point Home

Here's how the owners implemented an airy, streamlined look with staying power.
Chester Greenwood's 1896 Queen Anne in Farmington, Maine
Home + Garden

Look Closely at This Queen Anne

Can you spot the (unintentional) architectural nods to Farmington’s 19th-century earmuff inventor above the arched windows?
GO Home by GO Logic in Hope, Maine
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In Hope, a New Build That Heats Itself

The New England-farmhouse form is pretty sweet too.
The kitchen in Amy Rees and Robert Lash’s 1887 Gardiner schoolhouse-turned-home features an original brick wall, tin ceiling, and blackboards — now forming an island top
Home + Garden

Transforming This Former Schoolhouse Provided Renovation and Life Lessons

First up: how to scrape fossilized spitballs from a 135-year-old tin ceiling.
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Harness the Maine Outdoors in Chic Holiday Displays

Three local designers show how to get creative with seasonal greens.
visual artist Jana Benitez
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Five Minutes With Jana Benitez

Visual artist Jana Benitez on reclaiming a male-centric genre, the stress-relief kits she keeps around the house, and more.
In her revamped Dover-Foxcroft barn, Brenda Schultz layered an oil painting from Brunswick’s Cabot Mill Antiques on a stenciled wall and toile and velvet pillows on a sleigh daybed.
Home + Garden

Renovating Dover-Foxcroft: One Woman’s Quest

Brenda Schultz is on a mission to refurbish her hometown, one barn and canoe shop at a time.
Home + Garden

8 Striped Picks For Your Home

Nautical is nice, but on chilly days we’re loving the way these broad, richly hued stripes stack up.
1847 Stockton Springs Italianate, the Belvedere, rendered in gingerbread, candy, and icing by owners Ryan Seavey and Casey Guise
Home + Garden

They Manifested Their Stockton Springs Italianate in Gingerbread

It's all there: corbels, columns, and an elegant cupola.
Maine-made menorahs
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A Few Good Menorahs

Find a new heirloom Maine-made menorah or a brilliant holiday gift among our picks, available through Portland’s Maine Jewish Museum.
author Matt O’Donnell walking past Fishouse, which previously belonged to writer Lawrence Sargent Hall
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For Nearly Two Decades, He’s Toted This Writing Cabin Around

A Phippsburg author finds inspiration, and a 19-year-long project, in a former fish-drying shack.
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