People & Businesses

Kitchen Port

By Susan Dewey | January 11, 2016

Kitchen & Bath Dean Sarrasin had a career specializing in cabinetry design when he decided to move in a bit of a different direction and open Kitchen Port, Inc. in…

Cataldo Custom Builders

By Susan Dewey | January 11, 2016

Cape & Islands Architects and Builders “We create an environment where everybody wins—client, builder, contractor, and architect,” says Ralph Cataldo, president of Cataldo Custom Builders in East Falmouth. “You have…

Polhemus Savery DaSilva

By Cape Cod Life Publications | January 11, 2016

Cape & Islands Architects and Builders If a home is not beautiful, it’s not sustainable, says John DaSilva, AIA, architect and design principal for Cape Cod’s Polhemus Savery DaSilva Architects…

Patriot Builders

By Susan Dewey | January 7, 2016

Cape & Islands Architects and Builders When Chris Childs joined Patriot Builders in 2003—he is now a partner in the company and the firm’s principal designer—what drew him to the…

Patrick Ahearn Architecture

By Susan Dewey | January 7, 2016

Cape & Islands Architects and Builders With over 42 years of success as an architect, Patrick Ahearn knows the importance of understanding a client’s needs. But for Ahearn—a member of…

Shor Home Furnishings

By Susan Dewey | January 7, 2016

Interior Designs Opening in Provincetown in the spring of 2008, Shor Home Furnishings & Interior Design weathered a significant storm early in its existence. Herbert Acevedo, who owns the business…

Vu Design

By Susan Dewey | January 7, 2016

Interior Designs It may be November on Cape Cod, but for David Shinn, owner of VU Design, the interior design business is never off-season. Shinn, whose Hyannis firm and retail…

Nautique Cape Cod

By Susan Dewey | January 7, 2016

Interior Designs Marsha Malone and the staff at Brewster’s Nautique Cape Cod have provided homeowners with quintessential, coastal interior design and home furnishing services for more than a decade. Nautique’s…

Elizabeth Williams Interior Design

By Susan Dewey | January 7, 2016

Interior Designs Sometimes losing a job can be the beginning of something wonderful. That certainly was the case for Beth Williams, owner of Elizabeth Williams Interior Design in West Harwich.…

Audrey’s Interiors

By Susan Dewey | January 7, 2016

Interior Designs Opened in 2011, Audrey’s Interiors on Main Street in the center of Harwich is the long-held dream of owner Audrey Greenway. When her position as an event planner…

McPhee Associates of Cape Cod

By Susan Dewey | January 7, 2016

Cape & Islands Architects and Builders Integrity has been the cornerstone of McPhee Associates for nearly 45 years. To second-generation company President, Rob McPhee, the home building company’s clients deserve…

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Longfellow Design Build

By Susan Dewey | January 7, 2016

Cape & Islands Architects and Builders As a student at Boston College, Mark Bogosian’s wheels were already turning about molding his family’s home construction business into an authentic design/build firm.…

LDa Architecture & Interiors

By Susan Dewey | January 7, 2016

Cape & Islands Architects and Builders Finding a cohesive balance and providing symmetry for each client is the central mission of LDa Architecture & Interiors, according to the firm’s co-founding…

John Dvorsack Architect

By Susan Dewey | January 7, 2016

Cape & Islands Architects and Builders  From the suburbs of Cleveland, Ohio, where he loved building in his backyard as a child, to designing beautiful homes on the waterfront of…

Hutker Architects

By Susan Dewey | January 6, 2016

Cape & Islands Architects and Builders Build once, well” is the philosophy that guides architect Mark Hutker in his life’s work, and it is a philosophy exemplified in one of…

Paine’s Patio

By Susan Dewey | January 6, 2016

Home Furnishings Opening in 2003, Paine’s Patio is a natural descendent of the famous Boston-based Paine’s Furniture, which started in 1835. Doug Shearer says that growing up, the last thing…

Casabella Interiors

By Susan Dewey | January 6, 2016

Home Furnishings Walk in to Casabella Interiors on historic Route 6A in East Sandwich and you are immediately surrounded by beautiful vignette spaces, full to the brim with fine furnishings…

The American Point of View

By Susan Dewey | January 6, 2016

Home Furnishings Retirement can often spawn new careers, which was the case for Chris Ellis and his wife, Cheryl. “I had given her an earring-making kit when she retired and…