Vintage window restorer Alison Hardy’s mission is to open homeowners’ eyes to the value and practicality of what they already have.
renovation
Fish & Seafood
Sunken Treasure | Sea Scallop Recipes
Making the most of a beloved bivalve in New Bedford, Massachusetts.
Magazine
The Mapparium | Up Close
When you walk into the Mapparium at the Mary Baker Eddy Library at Boston’s Christian Science Center, you enter a world like no other.
Gardens
Winter Pruning Tips
For some plants, December is the perfect month for pruning. Follow these winter pruning tips to learn which plants to prune and why.
When my husband and I set out to restore an 1873 two-family house to the single it was originally designed to be, we faced two challenges. First, our budget, like that of many homeowners, wasn’t unlimited. Second, the house, nestled on a compact urban street near Boston, had undergone an enthusiastic 1980s remodeling, which, save […]
Newport Vineyards, a family-owned winery in Middletown, Rhode Island, celebrated its 20th anniversary in 2015 with a stunning, environmentally-friendly renovation and bountiful fall harvest.
Gardens
Build an Outdoor Shower
A Block Island couple gives the post-beach rinse an elegant twist with this outdoor shower. PROJECT: BUILD AN OUTDOOR SHOWER Guests who get a chance to use the outdoor shower at the Block Island home of Larry Breakstone and his wife, Karen Levey, come away impressed. And for good reason: For starters, it’s got hot […]
Of the 17 gorgeous sea captains’ homes along it, several are currently available. And one on Summer Street, Kennebunk is our favorite … There are, of course, more than 17 historic sea captains’ homes within the borders of Kennebunk’s National Register Historic District, Maine’s very first historic district (established in 1963), but Summer Street is […]
When the citizens of three tiny New Hampshire communities gather at midnight to cast their votes, more than politics is at stake.
In the spring of 1954, Milton Graton landed a job that would change his life and the fate of covered bridges around the country, New England especially. A structure mover out of Ashland, New Hampshire, the 46-year-old Graton was a large-scale hauler, moving buildings mainly. Which is how he ended up in Rumney, […]
Lovely weather and lighter crowds make late autumn the perfect time to visit Maine’s Chebeague Island Inn.
When the townspeople of Craftsbury, Vermont, hang out at the general store, the line blurs between “store” and “story,” a scenario little changed since America’s first country store opened in Adamsville, Rhode Island, in 1788. Little more than a century has passed since folks hitched horses off the porch and rambled into the Craftsbury General Store […]