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Your Guide to Growing a Happy Ficus

  There’s a reason that ficus, or weeping fig (Ficus benjamina) is one of the most common houseplants around. When it has settled into ...

3 Summer-Ready Dining Rooms

Dining rooms in the fall and winter tend to be a bit more buttoned-up for the formal holidays. But in the spring and summer, it’s time to relax...

The Case for Cotton Upholstery

  Cotton 1: Catherine Staples Interiors, original photo on Houzz   The case for cotton. If you’re thinking of buying a n...

Summer Reading

  A House in the Country By Peter Pennoyer and Katie Ridder with Anne Walker Hardcover /228 pages $55  ISBN 978-0-86565-329-0 / Vendo...

Design Lessons

  One look at the stunning homes and buildings that award-winning designer and educator and Rockport resident Nancy E. Hackett has worked on ...

Creating a Home on the Beach

Beach house design is often synonymous with cutesy: signs that point “This way to the beach” and cartoonish fish and flip-flop sandals punctuate the d...

Kitchen With a View

  Serendipity and design often go hand in hand. so when Anita Clark’s housekeeper mentioned to her that another employer needed help wi...