Home, Garden & Design

Taking the Plunge

By Julie Craven Wagner | July 22, 2020

Soake Pools provides the perfect inspiration and rehabilitation for a professional landscaper’s backyard retreat. Sometimes the solutions to our problems can be found in our own backyard. Certainly that was…

A Backyard for the Generations

By Elizabeth Shaw | July 22, 2020

How do you design a backyard that can be enjoyed by every generation of family that comes to visit? Get some inspiration from Blue Claw Associates and the Welchs! It’s…

Eastham’s Secret Gardens

By Katie Anastas | July 22, 2020

The 2019 Eastham Garden Tour, a highlight of the annual Cape Cod Hydrangea Festival, showcased the efforts of dedicated gardeners. Eastham isn’t a place where you’d expect to find lush,…

The Cottage on the Cape

By Brenna Collins | May 26, 2020

It is “This Old House’s” first time on Cape Cod for the 2020 Idea House, featuring quite the forward-thinking floor plan Since 1979, “This Old House” has been influencing the…

The Cape House

By Cape Cod Life Publications | May 26, 2020

Such a simple phrase, yet such a depth of memory and meaning. The following three homes are great examples of the peace and serenity that can be found in the…

Work/ Life Balance

By Julie Craven Wagner | May 25, 2020

As we find ourselves working from home, how do we really get the job done? Someday, as we look back at the spring of ’20, we will acknowledge a shift…

Collective Collaboration

By Julie Craven Wagner | May 25, 2020

Designer Cathy Kert assembles a dream team for a seamless addition to her historic farmhouse in Pocasset. Shy has never been a word anyone would use to describe interior designer…

A New Spin on an Old Classic

By Elizabeth Shaw | May 6, 2020

Sudbury Design Group took a unique approach to a Cape Cod favorite in Chatham. There’s something so quintessentially Cape Cod about an outdoor shower. It’s perfect for leaving the beach…

Hit Refresh

By Allyson Plessner | May 1, 2020

A beachy summer home gets a splashy update thanks to the color masters: Evolve Residential Capturing color is an art, and like any great Rembrandt, Monet, or Hockney, the mastery…

Backyard Oasis

By Julie Craven Wagner | May 1, 2020

The true object of all human life is play.– G. K. Chesterton They say there is a child in all of us. For J.D. and Laura Bessey that is absolutely…

Homespun Sophistication

By Julie Craven Wagner | May 1, 2020

An Osterville home combines rustic charm with a polished elegance that a family enjoys whenever possible.  What kind of Cape house would you build if you could? Would it be…

The Best of Both Worlds

By Elizabeth Shaw | May 1, 2020

Blending old world style and modern Cape comforts has never looked so chic in this historic Provincetown renovation Much like Provincetown itself, this renovated home may look like classic Cape…

The Delight is in the Details

By Julie Craven Wagner | April 30, 2020

Osterville’s JuliaGarden Design is creating gardens that live, breathe + inspire For Julia Esteves, founder and garden designer of JuliaGarden Design in Osterville, the path that has led to the seaside…

The Best Neighbors Ever

By Julie Craven Wagner | April 30, 2020

Local fence purveyors and builders offer their collective wisdom on the right fence for anyone’s home. In Robert Frost’s poem, Mending Wall, Frost tells the story of his springtime ritual…

Welcome One & All

By Elizabeth Shaw | April 30, 2020

2020 welcomes the second year of the Universally Designed McGraw Family Garden of the Senses at Heritage Museums & Gardens Strolling through a garden, basking in the warming sun, and…

The Color of Linen

By Chris White | April 30, 2020

Leveraging old world sensibilities and a solid understanding of design, interior designer/textile artist Beth Odence creates a cozy home in Cotuit. Flax plants flower in pentamerous petals, delicate as silk,…

Where Cape Legends Flower

By Susan Dewey | April 29, 2020

17 garden clubs to celebrate famous Cape Codders in aspecial event at Heritage Museums & Gardens  “Black Sam” Bellamy. Jackie Kennedy. Iyannough. Edward Gorey. Ralph and Martha Cahoon. Cape Cod…

Get Wild

By Allyson Plessner | April 29, 2020

Bachelor buttons and daisies and wild rose bushes, oh my! Night falls and the sun sends an impassioned, fiery farewell to the day, simultaneously welcoming the stars as they blink…