September 2018 - New England Home Magazine

Stylish Fall Container Plantings

When it comes to plants, Stephanie Pilk tends toward the wild. The creative director of Snug Harbor Farm in Kennebunk, Maine, likes to combine plants of varying types and textures in a single vessel. Does she like a unified color

A Natural Landscape Design in the Berkshires

A Berkshires home cozies into its hillside site with a landscape plan that looks as though it was created by Mother Nature herself.

Kitchen & Bath Design 2018

New England designers prove there’s no one formula for making our most functional spaces beautiful.

Lighting with Contemporary Farmhouse Style

The contemporary farmhouse-style design trend is so strongly rooted in today’s design vernacular, we dare say it has become a…

5 Under 40 2018 Award Winner Jeremy Roc Jih

Much like the artists James Turrell and Robert Irwin, in whose work he finds inspiration, architect Jeremy Roc Jih strives to “defamiliarize things that would otherwise be familiar,” whether he’s testing the limits of plasticity light-

Tour The Hawthorne Inn in Concord, Massachusetts

If you want to stand—or sleep, or eat homemade granola—at the crossroads of American literary and revolutionary history, there’s probably no better place to do it than the Hawthorne Inn in Concord, Massachusetts. The bed-and-breakfast sits on former farmland owned in turn by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Amos Bronson Alcott, and

Kathleen Tillett’s Personality-Filled Home

The towering open shelf in Kathleen Tillett’s loft is a storyboard and a shrine, a celebration of objects ordinary and…

Contemporary on Nantucket

For nearly four decades, a Southern couple summered in a modest cottage on Nantucket’s windswept shore. Nestled alongside grass-covered dunes…

A Vermont Shingle Style Home Mixes Classic and Contemporary

Paul Robert Rousselle smiles when he recalls his client’s sizable wish list for the holiday home she was asking him…

A Complete Home Renovation in Three Phases

The thirteen years that Ryan McDonnell has owned Needham-based Hawthorn Builders have been an education in an often complicated industry,…

5 Under 40 2018 Award Winner Sarah Scales

With a background in both mathematics and studio arts, interior designer Sarah Scales brings scientific precision and a soft aesthetic to her residential design work. As head of her multidisciplinary firm,

Tour a Cape Cod Home that Seamlessly Blends with The Natural Landscape

How do you create a distinctive design for a home where the intent is to make it disappear into the…

September 2018 Events for the Design Minded

Kick-off fall with these design-centric events throughout New England. Instagrammable Beacon Hill September 1 Enjoy a day exploring picturesque Beacon Hill through the camera lens with a guided tour by artist Matthew Dickey. 3 p.m.–4 p.m.

Timber Frame Homes for Every Architectural Style

Think you’ve got timber framing pegged? Think again: these homes can move in many style directions. Say “timber frame,” and the image that comes to mind for most people is that of a log cabin. Just ask Mike Beganyi of New Energy Works, a company that crafts custom timber spaces across the