Month: February 2011

Notes from the Field: Pretty as a Portrait

By Karin Lidbeck Brent In today's modern home, a painted portrait is not as common a sight as it once…

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Friday Favorites 2/25/2011

Sorae Lee, Assistant Art Director If you’re looking for something functional and decorative for your walls, this light from Ligne…

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Sneak Peek: Bless This House

In our upcoming Spring issue of New England Home’s Connecticut we feature Michele and Lee Mergy’s home in Old Lyme….

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Book Review: “Yankee Modern: The Houses of Estes/Twombly”

Howard Mansfield, the New Hampshire–based writer who penned the forward to this new book from Princeton Architectural Press, calls the…

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Design in Depth: Color Musings

Artist John Scofield‘s recent paintings have me musing about color. Specifically, what colors together prove the most interesting combinations not…

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Julieann Covino: The Nature of Grasscloth

To say I was over the moon excited when New England Home asked me to guest post on their new…

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Sam Kastan

Looming Large

In 2008, the interior designer of a big house being built on the coast near San Francisco sent Sam Kasten…

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Wendy Valliere living room

Dramatic Impact

Wendy Valliere has never been one for drama in her life. Her interiors—well, that’s another story. She loves bold patterns…

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Winging It

Is taste a moral issue? You might think so, given the outcry from a handful of designers over Boston’s spanking-new,…

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What, When, Where: A Tuft Act to Follow

Lots of new products come through my Inbox on a daily basis–some good, some not so good. While I was…

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Barbara Pervier drapery

Blue Heaven

Barbara Pervier believes in drapery. “It’s not home until the curtains go up,” the Salem, Massachusetts, designer insists. She also…

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Jim M-Geough

For decades a very familiar face in the New England design trade, Jim M-Geough (along with his wife, Susan) owns…

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A Return to Glamour

Maybe it’s a reaction to the prolonged economic downturn. Or maybe it’s something as simple as a slight boredom with…

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John Walker Lesson 1

Pigments of Imagination

Back in the 1950s, John Walker’s classmates at the Birmingham College of Art in England might have been forgiven for…

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Anne Becker living room

Return Engagement

Different tastes make the world go round—we’ve all heard that expression. Certainly it’s true when it comes to architecture. While…

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