Home, Garden & Design
Lyrical Island Treasures
For those unfamiliar with the craft, the art of etching or carving designs into whale’s teeth (ivory) or bone is known as scrimshaw, and those who practice this art are…
A Seamless Connection
A distinctive home in cummaquid is the foundation for a new cape cod design/build team. Tucked away at the end of a small road off Route 6A in Cummaquid is a…
Family Fun-ctional
A resourceful Osterville homeowner helps an architect and a builder design her multi-generational kitchen. Imagine a new kitchen that is comfortable, spacious, and user-friendly for adults. Now, picture that same…
Chatham Charmer
Tim Smith, owner of Minglewood Homes, puts a fresh face on a timeworn 1930s Cape cottage. Sitting vacant for years, a 1930s Chatham cottage was in dire need of some…
A True Cape Colony
Highfield Hall’s House and Garden Tour celebrates the genuine Cape resort of East Falmouth’s Menauhant. When it was conceived in the 1870s, the plan for the summer colony of Menauhant…
Sonoma Fine
Longboard Vineyards showcases California’s Russian River Valley at a superb Alberto’s Ristorante wine dinner. Spring Wine Tasting with winemaker Oded Shakked Featuring wines from Longboard Vineyards First Course Seafood Sampler…
Island Eclectic
Tamara Weiss brings a whimsical sensibility to a new Midnight Farm location on Martha’s Vineyard. An island fixture for 18 years, longstanding Martha’s Vineyard home goods shop Midnight Farm has…
Woven In Time
After decades of honing her craft, Michigan resident Kathleen Myers finds her place among the master lightship basket weavers of Nantucket. A craft that started at sea off the coast…
Harmony of Light & Space
Polhemus Savery DaSilva design and build a unique coastal home for a Chatham Family that flows inside and out. A family with three school-age children wanted to build a new…
A Beautiful Abode
Interior designer Liz Stiving Nichols offers an eclectic mix of furnishings and accessories in her shop in Vineyard Haven In 2010, Martha’s Vineyard interior designer Liz Stiving Nichols opened a…
A Timeless Retreat
Architect Bruce Miller restores an authentic Cape cabin in the woods of Wellfleet. It’s not every day you come across a property that evokes a sense of charm and nostalgia…
Grandeur Restored
With the second renovation of a Shingle-style house on the water in Sagamore, a couple finally find their dream home. When a young couple was looking for a summer home…
A Breath of Fresh Air
This Cape Cod kitchen’s redesign combines traditional quality with innovative green features “The only thing that’s missing here is that renovation smell!” This is a common exclamation by friends visiting…
Pond Perspective
How to add pizzazz to your landscape with a fish pond—or a pondless waterfall. When homeowners think about improving their landscape, they often focus on how to make their lawn…
The lasting beauty of perennials
Perennials—which can thrive in a garden for generations—add enduring color, scent, and texture to coastal gardens Perennials are perfect partners for coastal environments, loving moist, ocean-warm air and the seaside’s…
Du Pain & Du Vin
A wine dinner at Pain D’Avignon is a francophile’s—and a Cape Codder’s—delight. In every season, Pain D’Avignon is a favorite with Cape Cod diners who love fine French cooking—especially classic…
It’s a ChappyWrap!
Martha’s Vineyard memories are woven into these stylish—and so cozy—blankets created by two entrepreneurial mothers. Everyone remembers their favorite childhood blanket. It protected you from whatever it was that lived…
Island Modern
Interior designer Liz Stiving-Nichols turns traditional into contemporary by bringing the outside in. When a young family stumbled upon a Martha’s Vineyard home for sale surrounded by open fields and…
