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How to Build the Classic, Custom Cape Cod Home of Your Dreams

McPhee Associates designs for the long term.

Design Trend: Semiprecious Stones

North Shore stone fabricator Cumar creates fabulous––and functional––statement surfaces from semiprecious materials.

Mid-Cape Home Centers: A Century of Success

On the eve of its 125th anniversary, the team at Mid-Cape Home Centers reflects on more than a century of success.

Hiring a General Contractor? These 5 Steps Ensure You’ll Choose the Right Person for the Job

Hiring a contractor to work on your home is a major decision. You’re not only trusting the person you hire…

Is Your Home Healthy?

Here’s how one New Hampshire company is ensuring the answer is a resounding “yes”—for both inhabitants and the environment. If…

Tyler & Sash: Perfectly Tailored

In a retail world that’s increasingly moving toward a mass-market strategy, Tyler & Sash is succeeding with a business model that’s anything but.

How to Create a Realistic Building Budget

If there’s one thing Glenn Farrell, owner of York, Maine-based YFI Custom Homes, wants all homeowners to know about building…

Rooms with A View

Beauty and beneficence go hand in hand at Southport’s annual Rooms with a View.

5 Ways to Create Meaningful Spaces

Homeowners are surrounded by beautiful design recommendations daily. However, many homeowners crave more than beauty; they are

Rising Star: Alina Wohlhardt

Designer Alina Wolhardt is the force behind the look and feel of some of Boston’s most distinctive new condo buildings.

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

Interior Design: TV versus Reality

An interior design veteran sheds light on common myths proliferated by the decor media. Thanks to the explosion of design-centric…

A Virtual Reality Where Architecture is the Name of the Game

You can’t walk into a house that hasn’t been built. That’s a fact. But in today’s reality—today’s virtual reality, that is—you can have an experience that’s pretty darn close. In recent years, virtual reality—a computer-generated simulation that places users in an interactive, three-dimensional