There were many ways for a wealthy family in the 1800s to signal their status at home, from serving celery in designated vases to displaying gilt-edged mirrors in the sitting room. For New Englanders, it was a time of relative … Continue reading →

“Camps used to be simple,” says Mark Gordon, founder of Rangeley Building and Remodeling. “The overall quality of a camp has changed.” While he notes that there was certainly a boom period during the early 1900s (“A lot of great … Continue reading →

“I think there’s something really cathartic about having your hands literally in mud, right?” asks Christina Wnek of Cee and She. We are sitting in the pottery studio she shares with her artistic partner Ashley O’Brion, sipping coffee from mugs … Continue reading →

Every family has a few generational legends that they tell over and over —the tale of how Granddad and his brothers saved the farm from foreclosure, or the story of how Great Grandma defied her family and married for love. … Continue reading →

“It’s part of our company DNA,” says Wright-Ryan vice president Greg Greenwald. He’s just finished describing a particularly challenging build taking place on a Casco Bay island. The house in question is located on a previously undeveloped site, a rocky … Continue reading →

When you picture a printer in your mind, chances are you imagine something the size of a toaster oven, made of hard plastic with a few little buttons on the top. You turn it on, press a button, and out … Continue reading →

Small projects, Shannon Richards admits, are “really effing hard.” After two decades in the building business, Richards was well aware of the challenges she’d face by choosing to focus her energy in this sector. “In 2018, I came up with … Continue reading →

Yuri Kobayashi needs to see the seasons. It’s part of why the artist lives in midcoast Maine. Here, she can witness the “up and down” of the temperatures as well as the rising and falling of a mountainous landscape. After … Continue reading →

Printmaker Katharine Watson lives on the outskirts of Portland in a brightly painted Victorian house surrounded by flowers. There’s bushy lavender, drowsy peonies, and fragrant roses climbing up and down a trellis. “I didn’t really think about it until someone … Continue reading →

A successful park or garden tells you how to use it, not through signs or maps (though those can help, too) but through its design. It offers paths for walking, benches for admiring vistas and viewsheds, and clearings for picnics … Continue reading →