Trends and Ideas
Five Essential Elements for a Home that Nurtures the Spirit
What really evokes contentment in the places that you love? What is it, really, that enables you to feel happy and at ease when you cross that threshold? Cushman Design has some answers.
An Urban Renaissance in Boston
Boston’s housing stock is undergoing a shift, thanks to young families sticking it out in the city for the long haul. Here are the biggest trends inspired by family life in the heart of Boston, from our partners at Catamount Builders.
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



















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