An Affair to Remember

It’s some kind of magic. And the same holds true when a house is involved. Take the couple who profess…

American Classic

Gorgeous women choose clothes that highlight their attributes, not upstage them. Too many frills, too much finery could detract from…

Sweeping Beauty

Some people say architect Philip Johnson faked the tears he shed upon seeing Spain’s Guggenheim Museum Bilbao for the first…

Continental Drift

So many of us have a vision of the kind of house we’d like to build. It may be…

Kindred Spirits

Linen, silk, and gossamer wings aside, there is nothing more finely woven than the mother-daughter relationship. When it’s good it’s…

A Certain Je Ne Sais Quoi: A Designer’s Home in Sharon, Connecticut

Had it been an igloo,a yurt, or a cave it still would have ended up looking like a million dollars….

Cinderella Story: New Hampshire Farm House Renovation

One shudders to imagine it: a wild sky, a fierce zigzag of lightning, and a barn in New Hampshire’s lovely…

Perfect Harmony: Inventive Landscape Design in Vermont

An inventive landscape designer surrounds a house with a composition of color and texture that’s beautifully in tune with the fields, forests, and mountains of north central Vermont.

Hip to Be Square: A vacation home that’s sleek, spare and unabashedly modern

It’s sleek, spare, and unabashedly modern, but this cleverly conceived vacation home fits right in with its more traditional neighbors.

Natural Wonder

A designer’s delight in the beauty she sees in the everyday world inspires a joyful serenity in her own home.

Set amid beautiful trees with handfuls of rugged boulders about that buoy the quintessential New England feel, this Middlesex County home—a modern-day take on the iconic farmhouse—is as welcoming as a warm fire.

Best In Show

A renovation to create a showcase for the homeowners’ contemporary art treasures turns a lakefront Fairfield County house into the true star of their collection.

Above it All

Perched above a picturesque Massachusetts harbor, a thoughtfully renovated house outfitted in a sophisticated blend of classic and contemporary style is a standout in every way.