March 18, 2013
A careful restoration will be invaluably aided if you let the building be your guide. Paying attention to those sometimes subtle tells - allows the structure to voice its opinion - lets an old building speak its mind. Sometimes that conversation can take you beyond the nut and bolts to real events and history.
January 25, 2013
It seems that the New Year invariably brings with it some early spring cleaning. While organizing photos, letters and papers we’ve gathered about the history of our property, I came across a real life Cinderella story.
January 2, 2013
We are kicking off 2013 with some new additions to our The Tradition of the New collection - the North Fork wine rack and an assortment of cutting boards we call collectively, Little River.
December 20, 2012
"What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet." Juliet's sentiment was entirely understandable and continues to be relevant. What did it matter whether you were a Montague or a Capulet - if you were in love?
December 1, 2012
I woke up to the reality that winter is upon us - a thick coating of glittering frost. My mind turned to our trip to the Hamptons this summer during the month-long heatwave.
November 19, 2012
Shop small and local for: Artist Made, Hand Made & Maine Made gifts 15% off from November 24th to December 24th.
August 22, 2012
Our L'Etete stool and Boyden bench were featured finds in Design Marchand's blog post "The Best Stools".
June 29, 2012
Two side tables, Mill Cove and Roque Bluffs, from our furniture collection are featured in Down East magazine's 58th annual Best of Maine issue - on newsstands in July.
June 9, 2012
As the story goes, Captain James Holmes, fresh from the battlefields of the Revolutionary War, walked 175 miles with everything he owned in a knapsack on his back, from his birth town of Plymouth, Mass, to "Bog Brook Plantation," later known as Hebron, a promising new settlement in western Maine.
June 8, 2012
Last fall the St. Croix Historical Society contacted us about restoring antique windows in the Dr. Job Holmes Cottage Museum in Calais. With their glazing and paint failing, they were urgently calling for a total overhaul.
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