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Easy Accord
Home remodeling projects are fraught with tension. The architect and the builder don’t see eye to eye. The designer and…
Keeping it in the Family
Parental suggestions all too often fall by the wayside, but every once in a while a child recognizes sound advice…
Perfect Partners
A suburban Boston house combines gloriously feminine curves and quietly masculine lines for an ideal marriage of exuberance and restraint.
Father Knows Best
A busy single dad’s trust in his design team leads to a stylish but kid-friendly new space that makes him and his young sons feel completely at home.
Classic By Design
The estate gates part slowly, like curtains on a stage, to reveal a class act: a courtyard and neatly manicured…
Home at Last
It all started with mushrooms. Not the real thing, but a magazine spread about the edible fungi that caught Michele…
Dressed to Impress
There’s an old adage that says you only get one chance to make a first impression. But when it comes…
All That Matters
Cleaning out a closet—shedding the gaudy Hawaiian shirt you never wore and those outdated shoes—is one thing. Editing years of acquired…
Seaside Sanctuary
The famed decorator Mark Hampton once wrote that the “concerns of decorating” may appear frivolous and vain to some,…
Massachusetts Gothic
Carole and Gordon Hyatt have an adventurous streak. Their careers—his as a documentary filmmaker and hers as an expert…
View Finder
Feathers ruffle easily on the Cape when folks mess with old ship captains’ homes—no matter how sea-worn those houses…
Magic Formula
You can’t define it. Still, you sense it when it’s happened. There’s an alchemy that makes a house stand…
Singular Sensation
Frank Anton’s first few days on Nantucket left him wondering why his wife-to-be, Georgine, so loved the island. “It was…
All is Calm
“When the light catches their wings,” says Malcolm Rogers, referring to some energetic little creatures that flit about his two-story, white-clapboard home, “it’s as if you can see them moving.”