Home, Garden & Design
Focus: M. Duffany Builders
Generations of experience and understanding clients’ vision leads to successful outcomes. Building on Cape Cod, with its vast history and coastal landscape, comes with its own unique challenges. Being a…
Season of Joy
The 15th Holidays at Highfield Hall The 15th Holidays at Highfield Hall & Gardens is celebrated this season by event stylist Rita Pacheco and her team, George Chapman, Larry Silva,…
Seasons of Love
With the help of Maria Hickey and Associates Landscapes, the blank canvas at Kerry Kennedy’s new home has been transformed into a place for friends and family to gather and…
Three Centuries of Flowering
From the 1600s until today, this ancient Orleans ‘hundred-acre wood’ has flourished in hands that cherish the land with patience and love. Traveling down the long, winding drive shaded with…
A Green Desire
Chad and Bonnie Frost create an old-world landscape, which serves as a lush, nurturing backdrop for their modern romance. Just over five years ago, Bonnie Whitney was working for Coldwater…
Zen and the Art of Landscape
With almost four decades of experience under his feet, Paul Miskovsky has coaxed the natural world into a state of enlightenment. After almost 40 years of working in the dirt,…
A Heavenly Assumption
Local green thumbs join forces to restore a devotional garden. In a long, narrow garden perched alongside Eel Pond in Woods Hole, a gentle breeze tickles some carefully tended Hosta…
Monet in Brewster
Garden enthusiast Laura McLellan paints a masterpiece with plants. The story goes that Monet, already experiencing commercial success as a painter, gazed from the window of a stopped train at…
Where Beauty Abides
The pandemic plants the seeds for Terra Coastal, a flourishing new floral design business for customized Cape home décor. Beth Johnson is a true flower lover. The gardens surrounding her…
Building Business: Harvest Moon Farms
Dancin’ in the Light The first season at West Barnstable’s Harvest Moon Farms yields a bounty of certified organic produce for online customers. In the pantheon of rock-n-roll deities, Neil…
Spirits in the Material World
Architect Patrick Ahearn reimagines a family home that is now a grand cottage from another era. On October 2nd, 1981, the English pop/rock band The Police released its fourth album,…
A Warm Hug
Interior designer Anne Mahoney creates a safe and loving home for a client and his young family. Knowledge is power, and it can help you overcome any fear of the…
Big Changes on Little Harbor
In a high-style redesign, a home finally takes advantage of its views. The stately home across from Cohasset’s Little Harbor had potential for tremendous views out to the water. But it…
Dream Team
The entire team at Lewis & Weldon spend their days transforming clients’ dreams into homes they love. There’s nothing that invigorates Chuck Hart and his teams at Lewis & Weldon…
Special Spaces: A Cozy Mudroom
A mudroom is traditionally a home’s secondary entryway, a place you track in dirt, take off your shoes and unpack after a long day. However, this home’s mudroom demands the…
Lucking Out
Polhemus Savery DaSilva applies thoughtful design and exceptional craftsmanship to a unique home for the entire family. Few dogs are as fortunate as a little gray fellow named Lucky. Sure, some…
Pleasant Bay Blues
This open-concept Orleans home provides a private summer retreat, complete with the perfect calming, coastal palette. In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby,” the color blue is thought to represent…
The Beauty of Balance
This innovative home in West Dennis is all about finding the balance between sustainability and thoughtful design. A3 Architects and McPhee Associates collaborate to create a home that will last…
