Articles Tagged 'home'

Issues → July/August 2008 → Interact → 10 Things to Do →

Rumford Fireplace: Lord of the Flues

Why this is the best choice for fireplaces

Issues → July/August 2008 → Home & Garden → A Garden by the Sea →

Plants for the Seaside

Issues → July/August 2008 → Home & Garden →

A Garden by the Sea

Oceanside oasis for family and friends

House For Sale: Asa Potter House

A house of history in Kingston, Rhode Island

How'd They Do That: Sea-Glass Mirror Surround

A love of beachcombing inspires glass mosaic

Real Solutions: Wood Rot, Chipmunks, Bittersweet

Painting houses, pets in the garden, and more

Antiques & Collectibles: Trade Signs

Folk art from inns, taverns, shops

Issues → May/June 2008 → Home & Garden → Home at the Hawthorne Inn, Concord, Massachusetts →

The Detail: Showcase Closets

Hints from the Hawthorne

Resources

Issues → May/June 2008 → Home & Garden →

Home at the Hawthorne Inn, Concord, Massachusetts

They converted their home into a inn

Outdoor Shower Power

Do-it-yourself for the post-beach rinse

House for Sale: A Connecticut Horse Farm

Built when George Washington was only 8 years old

Real Solutions: Spring Cleaning

Lilacs, hollyhocks, and gooseberry bushes

Issues → March/April 2008 → Home & Garden → Do-It-Yourself Home Projects →

Covered Bridge Driveway

Rooftop Pergola

Do-It-Yourself: Trellis Coat Rack

Affordable Screened-In Porch

Sap Bucket Lid Roof

Issues → March/April 2008 → Home & Garden → New England's Finest: Botany 101 →

Fleurs de Light

Herbaceous Art

A Splash of Summer

Everything's Coming Up Roses

Issues → March/April 2008 → Home & Garden →

New England's Finest: Botany 101

Designs inspired by real plants and flowers

Do-It-Yourself Home Projects

Roof, porch, pergola, coat rack, and covered bridge!

Antiques: Creatures in Bronze

Katharine Lane Weems loved to sculpt animals

Real Solutions: Spring Cleaning

Growing witch hazel, soil composting

House For Sale: Ira Allen House

Both Ira and Ethan Allen lived in this Sunderland, VT, home

Natural Lawn Care

Going green in your backyard brings multiple rewards

5 Tips for a Healthier Lawn

Organic lawns are less expensive, easier to maintain

Resources for Natural Lawn Care

Find help for environmentally safe lawn care

Issues → January/February 2008 → Home & Garden → How'd They Do That: Ice Rink →

Backyard Ice Rink Tips

Resources

Issues → January/February 2008 → Home & Garden → Traditional Architecture in A Modern Home →

Resources

Rumford Fireplace: Lord of the Flues

Why this is the best choice for fireplaces

Issues → January/February 2008 → Home & Garden →

How'd They Do That: Ice Rink

New Hampshire dad creates a backyard ice rink

Real Solutions: Gardening Indoors

Countertop gardens and tree care in winter

Antiques & Collectibles: Going Green

William Grueby's green pottery defines organic

House For Sale: Pittsfield, MA

Where Oliver Wendell Holmes spent "sweet summers"

House For Sale: Bath, Maine

"Dream property" on Merrymeeting Bay

Traditional Architecture in A Modern Home

A New Hampshire family blends old and new

Issues → November/December 2007 → Interact → 10 Things to Do →

Real Solutions: Garden Tips Before Winter

How to prepare your plants for winter

Issues → November/December 2007 → Home & Garden → Holiday Decorating Ideas from Matthew Mead →

Tradition with a Twist

Thanksgiving Mantel

A Simple Setting

Create a Classic

Tiny Trees

Holiday Countdown

Ring It In!

Holiday Wreath

Bright White Nights

Better Than Bling

Gingerbread Harvest Basket

Issues → November/December 2007 → Home & Garden → House For Sale: Goshen, New Hampshire →

Word of Advice

Issues → November/December 2007 → Home & Garden →

House For Sale: Goshen, New Hampshire

It's time to recycle the old 105-acre farm

Holiday Decorating Ideas from Matthew Mead

Tabletops, mantels, staircases, and gifts are done in style

How'd They Do That: Decorating on a Dime

Living room makeover for a Massachusetts family

Issues → September/October 2007 → Home & Garden → How'd They Do That: Maps as Wallpaper →

Resources

Issues → September/October 2007 → Home & Garden → A Place Built for Sharing on Sebago Lake →

The Migis Touch: Creating the Lodge Look

Detail: A Never-Ending Porch

Resources

Issues → September/October 2007 → Home & Garden → Halloween: 5 Crafts for a Boo-tiful House →

Stairway Witch

Haunted House

Beware the Raven Nevermore

Boogeyman in the Window

Things That Go Bump in the Night

Issues → September/October 2007 → Home & Garden →

A Place Built for Sharing on Sebago Lake

A famous Maine resort remakes the house next door

Antiques and Collectibles: Federal Furniture

The art of John and Thomas Seymour lies in its understatement

House For Sale: Newport, Rhode Island

Three-bedroom colonial home at the Top of the Hill

Real Solutions: Home & Garden Tips

Decks, bamboo, and oak trees

How'd They Do That: Maps as Wallpaper

Lifelong travelers wallpaper the den with their favorite maps

Halloween: 5 Crafts for a Boo-tiful House

Five simple ideas to make your home a haunted house

Issues → September/October 2007 → Food → Eat Your Local Vegetables →

Support Your Local Growers

Issues → July/August 2007 → Home & Garden → Home Project: Treetop Retreat →

Treetop Retreat Resources

Issues → July/August 2007 → Home & Garden → Real Solutions: Cooling Fans, Voles, Daylilies →

Whole-House Fan Resources

Home cooling tips

Issues → July/August 2007 → Home & Garden → Energy Efficient: Give This Vermont Home a High Five →

Turn Your House Into an Energy Star

What you can do now and what our featured homeowners did

Best Wood Heater You'll Find Anywhere

Resources

Issues → July/August 2007 → Home & Garden →

House for Sale: Salem, Massachusetts

Waterfront home in New England's scariest town

Energy Efficient: Give This Vermont Home a High Five

Earning the government's highest energy rating

Nantucket Lightship Baskets

Seafarers transformed isolation into works of art

Project Native: Growing Native Plants

Massachusetts gardener cultivates wildflowers

Real Solutions: Cooling Fans, Voles, Daylilies

Home and garden solutions from the experts

Home Project: Treetop Retreat

A tree house for adults with a bird's-eye view of the forest

Issues → May/June 2007 → Home & Garden →

Passamaquoddy Life Perserved in Birch Bark

Maine's Tomah Joseph etched the stories of his people.

Real Solutions: leaf damage, violets, grass,

Cottage Addition on a Budget

Small addition to Martha's Vineyard house

House For Sale: Winchester, Massachusetts

A rare country property in the heart of suburbia.

Indoor-Outdoor Koi Pond

A Connecticut couple build a fish pond in their kitchen

Issues → March/April 2007 → Home & Garden → Real Solutions: Floor care, frost heaving →

When is the best time to trim?

Will exposed roots damage plants?

Keeping wood floors clean and shiny

Issues → March/April 2007 → Home & Garden → Christine Cook: Moss Maven →

Create a Moss Garden

Resources for Moss Gardens

Issues → March/April 2007 → Home & Garden → Hung Up: Hammers Become Coathooks →

Resources for Creative Coat Hooks

Issues → March/April 2007 → Home & Garden →

Real Solutions: Floor care, frost heaving

Christine Cook: Moss Maven

This Connecticut landscape designer loves rain and crawling in the woods

Where Fairy Tales Come to Life

The home of children's author Jan Brett is as magical as her books

Blossoms & Botticelli at the Museum of Fine Arts

Flower arrangers vie to match their creations with the MFA's masterpieces

Hung Up: Hammers Become Coathooks

A mudroom solution from hand-hewn beam and old tools

House For Sale: Cape Cod

Do you really want to live in an old house?

The Woman Who Painted Spring

Laura Coombs Hills brought flowers to life on canvas

Issues → January/February 2007 → Home & Garden → Real Solutions: Window Drafts and Deer Damage →

Drafty Windows

Controlling Deer in Your Garden

Issues → January/February 2007 → Home & Garden → Off the Floor: Hooked Rugs →

Collecting Antique Rugs

Hooked Rug Designers in New England

Visit some of our favorite rug collections

Issues → January/February 2007 → Home & Garden → Room for All: Space for a Large Family →

Resources for Massachusetts Home Design

The Detail: Designing a Room with a Dormer

Issues → January/February 2007 → Home & Garden → Counter Culture: Concrete Countertops →

Resources for Concrete Countertops in New England

Issues → January/February 2007 → Home & Garden →

Room for All: Space for a Large Family

Top priority for this North Shore house design was creating space for eight grandchildren.

Counter Culture: Concrete Countertops

Concrete is durable, moldable, and comes in colors

Collecting Antique Valentines

Give an antique valentine and receive a heart in return

Wonder Bulb: Amaryllis

Even novice gardeners can create an at-home flower show

Off the Floor: Hooked Rugs

A New England craft grows into art for the walls

House For Sale: West Freeport, Maine

A saltbox built by Jeremiah Ferguson and Jeremiah Ferguson

Real Solutions: Window Drafts and Deer Damage

Issues → January/February 2007 → Feature Stories → A House Divided: Eminent Domain in Connecticut →

Is Your Home at Risk? Eminent Domain Law

Issues → January/February 2007 → Feature Stories → New England's Finest: Artful Lamps →

In the Mood: Thomas Davin and Mary Kesler Lamps

It's in the Details: Janna Ugone Lamps

Mission Possible: Alistair Parker Lamps

Bright Idea: Hans Schepker Lighting

Issues → January/February 2007 → Feature Stories →

A House Divided: Eminent Domain in Connecticut

Susette Kelo and her fight against the city of New London

Issues → December 2006 → Home & Garden → Decorating with Poinsettias →

Place Cards

Illuminated Winter Garden

Table Wreath and Tablecloth

Candle Holders

Hanging Wreath

Poinsettias 101

Ice Bucket

Issues → December 2006 → Home & Garden →

Vintage Travel Posters

Relive the golden age of travel

Our Backyard

New England garden advice from R. Wayne Mezitt

House for Sale: On Boston Harbor

The view of the city's skyline from the front deck is spectacular

Decorating with Poinsettias

Easy decorating ideas for the Christmas star

Issues → November 2006 → Home & Garden → Wreath Sale: A Circle for Life →

Wreaths for Sale

Issues → November 2006 → Home & Garden → Home Makeover Includes Painted Murals and Furniture →

How to Paint Like a Master

Who Was Rufus Porter?

Issues → November 2006 → Home & Garden →

Home Makeover Includes Painted Murals and Furniture

A creative do-it-yourselfer saves a ramshackle New Hampshire house

Cast-Iron Doorstops

Among the most desirable collectibles on the market

Wreath Sale: A Circle for Life

These wreaths help support a homeless shelter

House For Sale: Albany, Vermont

A beautiful 68-acre farm in the Northeast Kingdom

Our Backyard

Burning bush, perennials, fertilizer

Issues → October 2006 → Home & Garden → New Hampshire Lake House →

Like Solving a Giant Jigsaw Puzzle

Resources

Issues → October 2006 → Home & Garden → David Haskell: Green Giant in Massachusetts →

David Haskell's Picks

While in New Bedford

Issues → October 2006 → Home & Garden → Our Backyard: Mums, Fertilizer, Bittersweet →

When to Fertilize?

Bittersweet is Invasive

Issues → October 2006 → Home & Garden →

New Hampshire Lake House

What's new is old again in this camp-turned-getaway

David Haskell: Green Giant in Massachusetts

Son of famous horticulturist Allen Haskell

Our Backyard: Mums, Fertilizer, Bittersweet

Antiques and Collectibles: Halloween

Look for scary witches, devils, and bats

Issues → September 2006 → Home & Garden → Glass artists Jennifer and David Clancy →

The Clancy Way

Glass to Last

Issues → September 2006 → Home & Garden → The Other Green Monster →

How to Start Your Own Community Garden

Issues → September 2006 → Home & Garden →

Antiques and Collectibles: Buffalo Pottery

Pieces from the company's Deldare line are prized for their decorative value

The Other Green Monster

Gardening in the shadows of Fenway Park

Our Backyard: Poison Ivy, Hydrangeas

New England garden advice

Glass artists Jennifer and David Clancy

Earth, wind, and fire make this Rhode Island artists' home glow

House For Sale: Maine Cottage

Resort to a Maine cottage -- golf course included