Home, Garden & Design
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Cape Cod and Island designers frame the beauty and diversity of coastal décor with five beautiful designs that herald in our festive season. Welcome to five splendid Cape Cod HOME…
A Meal to Celebrate
Hosting a festive holiday celebration—whether Thanksgiving, Hanukkah, Christmas, or any other holiday—always involves the preparation of a hearty and delicious meal. From turkey, stuffing, and candied yams to tasty seafood…
Trending Countertops
Go from drab to fab with exciting new options from engineered stone to stainless steel. No other project can transform the interior of a home quite like a kitchen renovation.…
New, Tried, and True
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…
A Botanical Dreamscape
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
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…
Big Ideas for a Small Space
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…
One Man’s Trash is this Man’s Treasure
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…
By the sea, by the sea
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…
Capturing the Ocean’s Moods
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…
Riding the Wave
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…
Hot Trends for Cape Kitchens
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…
Where Summer Memories Begin
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…
Paradise Found
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…
Classic Chic
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…
Nurturing Beauty on the Wing
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…
Seaside Magicians
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…
Inside moves out
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…