Maine Homes by Down East Magazine, Fall 2022

CONTENTS

Editor’s Note

The Guide

Home products with bold, Maine-inspired prints, a fearsome pirate drove the design of this MDI inn, do your house proud with a portrait by a local artist, this Freeport shop is your new happy place, you didn’t want to nod off in this former church in Alna, and a 19th-century inventor’s home needs a hero.

Get Inspired

We’re crushing on this glass-walled Denmark camp, a day-and-night makeover for a Damariscotta cabin, five minutes with Portland metalsmith Aminata Conteh, a Newcastle camper gets a glow-up, DIYers’ furniture-refinishing tricks, introducing a Portland “plant healer,” and a South Paris couple’s cordwood home is artful, efficient, and rock solid.

Dream Boat

Or floating nuisance? In Maine, where some houseboat owners are navigating troubled waters, it depends on whom you ask.

By Sara Anne Donnelly

Making Their Mark

Meet nine female building pros who are changing the construction landscape in Maine.

By Sarah Stebbins

2022 Maine Homes Design Awards

Behold the winning projects submitted by pros and readers.

Full House

On Vinalhaven, antiques dealers curate an eclectic summer home and shop in a 19th-century former gas station.

By Joyce Kryszak

Old World Update

English countryside meets Cumberland Foreside in a family’s hands-on renovation, pulled off at the height of the pandemic.

By Petra Guglielmetti

Modern Mix

Inside a couple’s sleek, net-zero Saltbox in Freeport: vintage Left Coast vibes.

By Sara Anne Donnelly

Creature Comforts

In Wilton, a friendly gardener creates a vibrant refuge for people and pollinators.

By Aurelia C. Scott

Why I Live Here

A Yarmouth yard produces apples, maple syrup, and lasting friendships.

Cover photo by Jeff Roberts