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Tour a Contemporary Home in Brookline
For all its abstract, sculptural looks, a Brookline, Massachusetts, house is skillfully attuned to its venerable neighborhood.
A Home That Marries Modern and Traditional Styles
He’s all about modern; her, not so much. In designing a new Greenwich home, it all comes together beautifully.
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,…
Midcentury-Modern Revived
The family of five had been searching for a house in Hingham for three years, looking for something unique, when a midcentury-modern ranch hit the market. “I fell in love with the property,” remembers the wife, “and I figured the house could be fixed.” As for selling her husband on the home,
A Glamorous Carriage House on Boston’s North Shore
They weren’t really house-hunting. But when a retired couple from Boston’s North Shore took one look at this condominium in…
An Elegant Georgian-Style Home in New Canaan, Connecticut
With its white clapboard and dark shutters, this Georgian-style house in the picture-perfect town of New Canaan is the quintessence of Yankee rectitude. But some pleasant surprises await inside, in an interior design that reflects the personalities and
Beauty Mark
Don’t underestimate pretty. The word may have its detractors, but for Marisa Vara Arredondo, there couldn’t be a better description of her new Greenwich townhome—which also happens to be the place where she successfully launched her business: Phace Bioactive, a pH-balanced skin-
A Bright, Light and Contemporary Home in Weston, Massachusetts
What does simplicity look like? It may be an odd question, but when you’re designing a new home, it’s one…
Looking Lively in Brookline
Nothing brings a grand old house to life like the presence of children. So when a bustling family moved into…
Tour a Revitalized Federal-Style Home in Wilton, Connecticut
Like a fine wine, some homes mature with age. After nearly two centuries, an in-town residence in Wilton has evolved into a thoroughly modern dwelling while retaining its historic
Favorites from the 2017 Junior League of Boston Show House
William Flagg Homer’s gracious Italianate-French Second Empire villa, built in 1853, narrowly escaped an early demise. When a real estate developer bought it in 1927 with the intention of
Mix and Match: A Classic Craftsman with a Modern Addition
What if we lived in a world of and instead of but? That’s the world in which Adolfo Perez, architect, and Nathalie Ducrest, designer, created this Brookline,
A Classic Cape-Style Home Reimagined
John and his wife, Annmarie, had been searching for a new home for months. Having given up on finding a lot on which to build, John found himself in Boxford, Massachusetts, standing at the door of yet another colonial, yet
A Fresh Look for a Colonial Revival
A new job at a Cambridge tech company sparked the D.C.-based couple’s house-hunting. Commuting wasn’t an option with a newborn and a toddler, so with his wife, Kate, and the kids still in Washington, Kevin
A Historic Home in Brookline Gets a Fresh Look
The old house was down but not out. For starters, it was in very good company. It sat on a…
