Features
Shingled Modern
Photography Brian Vanden Brink
A classic Maine design opens up, inside and out
Total Transformation
Photography François Gagné
A Florida-style ranch gets a Maine makeover
For several years now, Ted Andrews of Harborside Design in Freeport and Christine Maclin of Maclin Design in Portland have been collaborating on the incremental renovation of a house near the tip of Bailey Island. Can you badmouth a house? The Bailey Island home had at least one surprising detractor: the current homeowner, who wasn’t particularly fond of the house when she and her husband bought it. They were searching for a house with Maine character, but the home they found looked, says Paul Seaman, the architect for the project, “like a Florida one-story ranch.” With its siding, triptych hip gable roof, and front portico, the home didn’t fit with the shingle-style vernacular of the neighborhood. Other details just seemed of another era. The floor and vaulted ceilings were
Open to the Elements
A house on the coast is both a beacon and a haven
Bold Stewardship
Photography Irvin Serrano
A contemporary family in an historic Camden Inn
A Few Pages Ahead
The Portland Public Library—Maine’s largest—has served the community since 1867.
Stateside Summers
May 2010
by Rebecca Falzano
Photography Irvin Serrano
A London designer builds her summer home in Maine.
The story of Sandra Ankarcrona’s home has fairy-tale beginnings. Her parents met one summer on the beach in Maine—her father’s family vacationed at one end and her mother’s at the other.
Standing Grand
May 2010
by Debra Spark
Photography Trent Bell
The transformation of an English manor house in Cape Elizabeth
High Up, Upside Down
May 2010
by Rebecca Falzano
Photography Irvin Serrano
Modern meets traditional—and gets turned upside down—on Portland’s East End
From the top of long-time Portland residents Cyrus and Patty Hagge’s East End home (their “tree house,” as they call it), summers out on Little Diamond Island (“Little,” as they call it) are never far; from their deck they can catch a glimpse of the islands in Casco Bay over the treetops.
Cape to Cape Collection
April 2010
by Rebecca Falzano
Photography Scott Dorrance
One couple, two homes, twenty-five years of art
Close to Their Hearth
April 2010
by Deborah Weisgall
Photography Irvin Serrano
Karin and Dave Thomas have designed their art-filled house to embrace their wanderlust—and their love of home
Seaside Sophistication
March 2010
by Debra Spark
Photography Trent Bell
A house of glass and steel on an island bluff
Long-Distance Design
March 2010
by Debra Spark
Photography Trent Bell
A Chicago couple renovates an 1880 home in Camden, from afar
Camden is full of transplants, people who fell in love with Maine on vacation and bought property with the hope of summering then retiring on the coast.
Mountain Return
Jan/Feb 2010
by Rebecca Falzano
Photography Irvin Serrano
A hybrid log home is a cozy, stylish retreat for a family with deep Sugarloaf roots
As dusk descends on Sugarloaf, Jim and Priscilla Denny’s home glows amber through a snowy screen of trees. After a day on the cold slopes, their warm oasis beckons. Soon a fire will be lit and voices from the kitchen will mingle with those drawn to the flames. Tomorrow, everyone will wake up to fresh, powder-covered trails visible from their bedrooms. For many loyal Loafers, this is only a dream. For the Dennys, it’s their reality—one arrived at by the most circuitous of routes.
Self-Contained Living
Jan/Feb 2010
by Elena Sarni
Photography Trent Bell
From cargo ship to container house
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