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Glasses for Giftgiving
1.Offer your favorite vintage dressed in this mod wine bag ($22), made of recycled fabric, from Aster + Sage of Providence, RI. 401-781-0035; asterandsage.com 2. Cocktails rock and martinis look marvelous in cool “Satin Frost” glassware ($32/set of four rocks glasses; $35/set of two martini glasses), from Angela Adams of Portland, ME. 800-255-9454; angelaadams.com 3. […]
VIDEO: Annie discusses these New England food gifts on New England Cable News (NECN). Another basketful of ideas: holiday food gifts. A holiday basket of New England foods brings glad tidings to friends and family. And if you’ve been good this year, they just might share a bite or two.Get Our FREE Yankee Best New […]
Antiques add richness to any home decor. Here are some of Matthew Mead’s favorite places to shop for vintage housewares. ANTIQUES USA, Route 1, Arundel/Kennebunk, ME 800-872-1114, 207-985-7766; antiquesusamaine.com YORK ANTIQUES GALLERY, Route 1, York, ME 207-363-5002; yorkantiquesgallery.comGet Our FREE Yankee Best New England Vacations Guide! Email(Required) Subscribe WHITE HOME COLLECTIONS, 9 Greenville Road, Wilton, […]
I love old metal tins, and hunting for them at thrift and antiques shops is an easy and inexpensive way to get into the spirit of the season. Here’s how you can turn a serendipitous find into the perfect setting for your favorite baked goods, to give or to keep. 1. Line the tin with […]
Learn more about home heat efficiency. Home-improvement expert Tom Silva shares 6 tips for making an old house more efficient.
Expert advice on heating old houses from home-improvement expert Tom Silva. In an age of rising fuel prices, can we still love old homes?
Homes
Family Tradition
Gretchen and her daughters, Megan and Phoebe, and their families celebrate Christmas Eve together. True to the artist’s sensibility, decorations are unfussy. The handmade ceramic tree, is a gift from a friend; the snow globe, vase, and reindeer come from Gretchen’s favorite local gift shop, Simple Pleasures. A few antique ornaments on an ironstone plate […]
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The Detail
An interesting window configuration in the living room is one of Gretchen Dow Simpson’s pleasures. In this triple-fixed transom-type window, the elongated diamond pane is unusual, in that it appears to be floating among the adjoining panes. Small, high, multipaned windows are characteristic of Dutch Colonial style. This architectural form, which harks back to the […]
Gretchen Dow Simpson’s home in Providence, Rhode Island, is all about what she loves: art and architecture. Her striking paintings hang on every wall of her circa-1935 Dutch Colonial. Arresting black-and-white photos by Aaron Suskind, Harry Callahan, and Salvatore Mancini make the living room feel like a gallery. The artist is perhaps best known for […]
It’s only a slight stretch to say that the skin of America’s women depends on a handful of New England woodsmen with rough hands and weathered faces. Without these “brush cutters,” as they call themselves, there would be no witch hazel to put into the dozens of lotions, creams, gels, moisturizers, cleansers, conditioners, and shampoos […]
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Holiday Gift Basket Foods
A holiday basket of New England foods brings glad tidings to friends and family. More suggestions: New England food gifts 1. Molasses-and-clove cookies. Dancing Deer Baking Company, Roxbury, MA. 888-699-3337, dancingdeer.com 2. Mix a batch of fresh scones, as good as Nana’s. Bristol Harbor Homemade, Bristol, RI (bristolharborhomemade.com), marketed by The New England Cupboard, Bangor, […]