Home, Garden & Design

Autumn 2015

New, Tried, and True

By Haley Cote | September 16, 2015

Kitchen designs for 2016 are an intriguing blend of classic styles and out-of-the-box contemporary ideas. It’s often said that the kitchen is the heart of the home and to interior…

Autumn 2015

A Botanical Dreamscape

By Susan Dewey | September 15, 2015

At the end of a cul-de-sac in Falmouth, this magical garden landscape is a 30-year labor of love. When Marcia and George Chapman bought a new house on a cul-de-sac…

Pint-sized Perfection

By Susan Dewey | September 15, 2015

A beachside landscape brings big pleasure with all the latest outdoor entertaining amenities—on a tiny lot above Buzzards Bay. Great vacation landscapes on Cape Cod come in all shapes and…

Autumn 2015

Big Ideas for a Small Space

By Mary Stanley | September 15, 2015

A resourceful architect builds his own home on a challenging Osterville lot by thinking outside the box and making the most of nature’s whims. Strategically positioned on a small lot…

August 2015

One Man’s Trash is this Man’s Treasure

By Ellen Albanese | July 30, 2015

At Chatham’s Atlantic Workshop, Scott Feen transforms lobster pots, boat rudders, and pretty much anything else into custom furnishings and decorative pieces Scott Feen hates to throw anything away. In…

Summer 2015

By the sea, by the sea

By Susan Dewey | July 14, 2015

Editor’s Note When I was a little girl, we lived on a long street that ran alongside the Mount Hope Bay. The street was about a mile long and ended…

Summer 2015

Capturing the Ocean’s Moods

By Mary Grauerholz | July 14, 2015

The artist shares her secrets The magnetic effect of Jeanne Rosier Smith’s paintings en plein air (French for “in the open air”) is most obvious when she is depicting ocean…

Summer 2015

Riding the Wave

By Mary Grauerholz | July 14, 2015

Jeanne Rosier Smith’s paintings capture the ever-changing grandeur of the ocean. For Jeanne Rosier Smith, painting is an immersion of all the senses. She loves the visual richness of her…

Summer 2015

Hot Trends for Cape Kitchens

By Erin Murray | July 14, 2015

Outdoor kitchen professionals provide customized design and installation services for homeowners looking to move their summer menus—and fun—outside. The kitchen is the heart of the home, but when summertime arrives…

Summer 2015

Where Summer Memories Begin

By Mary Stanley | July 14, 2015

Expert architectural concepts and clever interior designing ideas combined with a homeowner’s special flair for details net an island paradise for a multi-generational family. A sprawling home on Nantucket that…

Summer 2015

Paradise Found

By Laurel Kornhiser | July 14, 2015

An old Cape home comes alive with magical architectural and design touches by a visionary team. It’s called “Fool’s Paradise,” and, indeed, the weathervane balancing on a finial atop this…

Summer 2015

Classic Chic

By Mary Grauerholz | July 14, 2015

An elegant new beachside community reflects the Cape’s cottage colony legacy. One of Cape Cod’s most striking cultural markers—the beachside cottage colony—was born a century ago. The quirky little communities…

Early Summer 2015

Nurturing Beauty on the Wing

By Erin Murray | June 30, 2015

Horticultural experts and dedicated local volunteers help create and preserve the habitat of beautiful butterflies.   Sandy earth, fresh salt air, ocean waves—all bathed in warm sunshine. The unique and…

Early Summer 2015

Seaside Magicians

By Mary Grauerholz | June 30, 2015

Mackenzie & Company is transforming coastal interiors with a whimsical, yet sophisticated sense of color and texture—and some fun touches of the unexpected.   Serendipity seems to follow Angela Hamwey…

Early Summer 2015

Inside moves out

By Cape Cod Life Publications | June 30, 2015

Summer entertaining on Cape Cod is all about easy, relaxed gatherings in outdoor living rooms. Summer is coming and after the winter New Englanders have endured in 2015, nothing could…

Early Summer 2015

Summer Flights of Fancy

By Susan Dewey | May 19, 2015

I am writing this by our kitchen window in our Centerville Cape, looking out over a perennial bed first planted by my husband’s great-grandmother close to 100 years ago. The…

Early Summer 2015

Worth Its Salt

By Laurel Kornhiser | May 11, 2015

This bayside retreat is small in size, but big in casual style and ingenious comfort. Cape Codders have a complicated relationship with salt. We call our vintage sea captains “old…

Early Summer 2015

Island Dream

By Mary Stanley | May 7, 2015

HGTV’s spectacular 2015 Martha’s Vineyard “dream home” is a fitting reflection of the island’s historic and scenic allure. Designed by highly regarded Martha’s Vineyard architect Patrick Ahearn, this lovely island…