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keep your cool Blue and other cool hues have been known to reduce stress and promote relaxation.

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C O NTENTS

March 2018 54 Open & Airy A family camp on Long Lake uses natural materials and thoughtful design decisions to bring the outdoors in

by Katy Kelleher Photography by Jeff Roberts

68 Fits to a “T” A house nestles into, and soars over, land in Harpswell

by Debra Spark Photography by Irvin Serrano Styling by Krista Stokes

84 Modern Nature A contemplative modern cabin set in the Kennebunkport woods

by Jen DeRose Photography by Trent Bell

ON THE COVER: This family camp on the shores of Long Lake was designed by Attardo Pondelis Architecture and built by Conforte Builders. “The driving force of the aesthetics was not the local vernacular,” reveals Attardo, but rather the “wood and the stones; we decided to let the materials tell the story.”

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Cover photography by Jeff Roberts Open & Airy, page 54

March 2018

CONT ENT S

40 TURNOUT

Going out, giving back: Supporting nonprofits and local businesses in the vital work they do year-round Director’s Circle and Contemporaries Holiday Open House; Hops for Habitat; Cocktails at the Camp

50 PROFILE

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99 ONES TO WATCH

Five standout artists to keep your eye on

102 SHOP TALK

A look at the offerings at Budget Blinds in Falmouth

107 SHOWCASE

In PhoPa Gallery’s Between Earth and Orion, Jeannie Hutchins explores her own subconscious

50 EDITOR’S NOTE 24 STAFF NOTES 28 CONTRIBUTORS 32 DESIGN WIRE 37 EVENTS 44 RESOURCES 114 REAL ESTATE 119 THE DRAWING BOARD 144

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ometimes architecture makes a big statement, draws attention to itself, speaks loudly, and defines the space that surrounds it. Other times, the beauty of good architecture is that it’s quiet, letting the landscape do the talking.

The three homes in the issue are of the latter kind—each of them defers to the conversation happening in the landscape around them.

When the homeowners of the house along a tidal inlet in Harpswell (Fits to a “T,” page 68) first approached Kaplan Thompson Architects, they told them they wanted their home to be about the water and for the structure to be “almost beside the point.” The team created a design where the second story is cantilevered out from the cliff until it meets the horizontal line of the first floor below, creating a visual path to the water. The design focuses primarily on the views, and the exterior, with its red cedar siding laid as shingles or shiplap, was meant to almost disappear into the landscape.

In Kennebunkport, a modern house in the woods (Modern Nature, page 84) by Caleb Johnson Studio is composed of various rectangular volumes punctuated with expansive floor-to-ceiling windows and a wall made entirely of glass; the effect is as if one is taking a walk in the woods. “A lot of architecture and

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design is trying to make these big style statements or show complicated detailing or something,” says architect Caleb Johnson. “For me, it’s more about quieting down the noise. Just let the outside be the outside. Let the wood be the wood. Let the stone be the stone. Just keep it quiet. There’s already enough noise going on.”

And finally, in our cover story about a house on the shores of Long Lake (Open & Airy, page 54), the design hinged on a large screened porch with a 28-foot-long glass door that lifts and slides, transforming the lake-facing side into one large indoor–outdoor space.

Instead of trying to force this bold design element into an explicitly Mainethemed house, architect Paul Attardo of Attardo Pondelis Architecture chose to draw inspiration from the materials and the natural landscape. “The driving force of the aesthetics was not the local vernacular,” he says. “The language of the building instead comes from the wood and the stones; we decided to let the materials tell the story.”

Letting the materials and landscape speak for themselves requires restraint.

Often, however, beautiful design finds strength in subtlety—and when architecture is done well, it’s hard not to notice it. We hope you enjoy the homes on these pages and all the thought that went into them.

PUBLISHER & CEO Andrea King CFO Jack Leonardi EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Rebecca Falzano MANAGING EDITOR Susan Axelrod ART DIRECTOR Heidi Kirn DIRECTOR OF SALES Jeffrey D’Amico ADVERTISING ACCOUNT MANAGERS Karen Bowe, Ryan Hammond, Peter Heinz, Kerry Rasor, Tom Urban, Emily Wedick PRODUCTION MANAGER Nichole Heady DIRECTOR OF EVENTS & EXPERIENTIAL MARKETING Reven Oliver DIRECTOR OF CORPORATE GIVING & VISIBILITY Shelbi Wassick EDITORIAL ASSISTANT Brittany Cost COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT MANAGER Casey Lovejoy OFFICE MANAGER Cyndi Alden CREDIT MANAGER Melissa Olander COPY EDITOR | PROOFREADER Leah Whalen STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER Sean Thomas VIDEO PRODUCER Lamia Lazrak WELLNESS EDITOR Dr. Lisa Belisle WRITERS Katy Kelleher, Claire Morin, Debra Spark, Karen Watterson PHOTOGRAPHERS Ted Axelrod, Matt Cosby, Erin Little, Nicole Wolf ART COLLECTOR MAINE Jack Leonardi, Taylor McCafferty, Kendra McDonald, Emma Wilson CIRCULATION MANAGER Sarah Lynn THE BRAND COMPANY Taylor Adams, Chris Kast, Maureen Littlefield

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One is brick with casement windows, all squared and reminiscent of the homes in Forest Hills Gardens [in Queens], not far from where I grew up. It is the home I tell my husband, ‘If we ever win the lottery, I’m walking up to that house and we are buying it no matter what.’ The other is also along the Back Cove. It’s fairly new, modern with a gray, yellow, and blue facade. It has a few decks and is one of those houses that I look at and always think, ‘I bet the views and the spaces in that home are awesome.’”

—Chris Kast, brand strategist

“I love the Maine State Building at Poland Spring. It was actually constructed for the World’s Fair in Chicago in 1893, then bought by Hiram Ricker after Poland Spring won world’s best water at the Fair. It was deconstructed, loaded onto custom freight cars in Chicago, and sent to Dixville Notch by rail, then carried on ox carts from the notch up to Ricker Hill and reconstructed. It was dedicated and opened as a lending library at the 100th anniversary of Ricker’s being on the hill in 1897. It now is part of the Poland Spring museums and houses all kinds of artifacts from the fair, the Inn, and the Ricker family. It has a three-story rotunda and a glass and wood-panel ceiling, and all the granite and wood comes from quarries and mills from all over the state.”

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C ON T RI BU T O RS MARK CONFORTE is the owner of Conforte Builders. He moved to Lovell in the 1980s and was drawn toward the detail-oriented fields of millworks and fine finish work. He gradually grew his business, and now he produces custom homes from the ground up, working closely with both homeowners and architects to create homes of distinction. Open & Airy, page 54

PAUL ATTARDO returned to his roots in Maine after working in Cambridge to pursue his passion for residential design.

With his longtime friend and collaborator, Stephen Pondelis, he founded Attardo Pondelis Architecture. Their approach of working closely with their clients results in well-informed designs based on careful listening and open collaboration. Open & Airy, page 54

JESSE THOMPSON is an award-winning architect who has become a national leader in green building design. A partner at Kaplan Thompson Architects in Portland, he is president elect of Maine AIA and a LEED Accredited Professional.

He grew up in Vermont, received his BArch from the University of Oregon, and now lives with his family in the Deering Center neighborhood of Portland. Fits to a “T,” page 68

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CALEB JOHNSON is principal and founder of Caleb Johnson Studio, a firm focused on uniting concept and craft to create exceptional spaces. Johnson’s full-service design firm has evolved to include interior design services and a construction and millwork company, Woodhull of Maine.

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MARK DORSEY has always been interested in architecture. He graduated from Bowdoin College in 1978 and went straight into building. Now Dorsey Construction focuses on high-end custom residences from the Harpswells to Falmouth. Dorsey lives with his painter-wife, Victoria, in Freeport, where he has always lived. Fits to a “T,” page 68

PETER FLOECKHER, construction manager at Woodhull of Maine, has 15 years of experience in custom residential construction, general contracting, fine cabinetry, and furniture making. He has built and renovated homes of varying styles and complexity throughout New England. He has tremendous respect for the coastal Maine environment and strives to implement sustainable building practices and use quality, locally sourced materials whenever possible. Peter lives in South Portland with his wife, Sarah, and their two-year-old daughter, Ailis. Modern Nature, page 84

MICHAEL CHESTNUTT received his bachelor of architecture from Virginia Tech. He is a LEED Accredited Professional and registered architect with 30 years of experience. He is passionate about creating a vision for projects that unites the clients’ desires, sustainability goals, and site opportunities in order to create thoughtful spaces that work at every scale and every budget. Modern Nature, page 84

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PORTSIDE REAL ESTATE GROUP has reopened their Falmouth office in a renovated building at 417 US Route 1 in Falmouth. Along with Debbie Kingry of Foreside Design, owner Dava Davin and her husband, Jim Davin, designed the space to incorporate sustainable elements, such as spray-foam insulation, high-efficiency windows, and natural gas heating systems, as well as artistic touches—a barn door crafted from salvaged boards separates the copy center and kitchenette. Additional agent offices and community gathering spaces create a larger home for the Portside team, while vaulted ceilings and a large gas fireplace contribute to a comfortable and professional environment in the offices. Portland’s Barrett Made built rustic details into the space, including exposed beams and shiplap, that contrast with the custom wood-and-metal open staircase by Windham Millwork and the expansive glass walls offering views toward the woods.

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Snow Kreilich Architects has received the 2018 AIA Architecture Firm Award—the highest AIA honor, awarded to firms that have consistently produced high-quality architecture for at least ten years. Based in Minneapolis, Snow Kreilich Architects is known for its contemporary design of the land ports of entry in Warroad, Minnesota, and Van Buren, Maine. Influenced by Acadian culture as well as abstract concepts including surveillance and camouflage, the VAN BUREN PORT OF ENTRY BUILDING received a 2016 AIA Honor Award, 2014 GSA Design Award, and 2014 American Architecture Award, among other honors.

The Ellis-Beauregard Foundation has awarded its first $25,000 Fellowship in the Visual Arts to artists and collaborators Wade Kavanaugh of Bethel and Stephen B. Nguyen of Portland. Jeffrey Peabody, vice president and director of New York City’s Matthew Marks Gallery, and Alison de Lima Greene, Isabel Brown Wilson Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at Houston’s Museum of Fine Arts, selected Kavanaugh and Nguyen from over 200 applicants. The artists are known for their expansive installations crafted from paper and wood. Along with the prize money and a studio residency program, the fellowship offers recipients a solo exhibition at the Center for Maine Contemporary Art in Rockland.

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Nearly 200 Portland Museum of Art (PMA) Director’s Circle and Contemporaries members enjoyed a festive evening at the PMA to kick off the holiday season. Guests enjoyed local beer provided by Oxbow and food by the Black Tie Company. Verrill Dana sponsored the 2017 Holiday Open House.

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HOPS FOR HABITAT Portside Real Estate Group held its second annual Hops for Habitat at Oxbow Brewing. The event featured beer and food as well as an auction. Over 150 community members were in attendance, and the evening raised over $5,000 for Habitat for Humanity of Greater Portland.

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Yarmouth Historical Society recently hosted its first gala fundraiser, Cocktails at the Camp, at Camp Hammond—a historic house built in the late 1800s for George Hammond, manager of the Forest Paper Company’s pulp mill. Nearly 150 people participated in the event, which raised money to support the operations and programs of the Yarmouth History Center. The History Center opened in 2013 as the headquarters of Yarmouth Historical Society and has welcomed over 25,000 visitors since opening. MH+D

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Ahead of the Curve Blue Rock tile designer Julie Wason brings style and practicality to Maine homes

Designer Julie Wason (opposite) has spent most of her career in the tile business.

Blue Rock’s large selection of mosaic tiles (above) includes multiple sizes and shapes in marble, limestone, glass, and ceramic, used for backsplashes and accents in wall applications.

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Displayed around the octagonal room are literally hundreds of choices: mosaics in marble, glass, and stone and tiles that look like beach pebbles, brick, or even rough-hewn wood planks. The last option is one Blue Rock designer Julie Wason attributes to a significant game changer in the world of tile: high-definition digital photography. “They can take an image of a worn wood floor and put it on a porcelain product that isn’t going to show scratch marks or be affected by water,” says Wason. “So now we have this beautiful, long-wearing product that’s very organic in appearance.”

A large part of Wason’s job is to help Blue Rock’s clients make the tough decisions. While she has worked for the company for just three years, the native of Caribou has spent most of her career in the tile business, including 23 years in leadership positions at large high-end stone and tile fabricators in Honolulu, Hawaii. In 2007 she convinced her husband, who is from Hawaii, to

return with her to Maine. She served for 15 years on state boards of the National Kitchen and Bath Association—which promotes professionalism and career development in the trade—and was the chapter representative for Maine in 2017.

Blue Rock has evolved significantly since its start in 1920 as a landscaping business. Working in concrete and stone, the company was responsible for paving sections of Interstates 95 and 295.

Over time, it has shifted its focus from exterior to interior products for home design, adding a countertop division in the early 1990s and a tile division in 2010. The company opened a second location in Kennebunk in 2011, where it recently opened a new showroom, and has plans to expand the Westbrook showroom to incorporate more products. “We still have aggregate, but we don’t do the flagstone or exterior materials anymore,” says Wason. “Our clients are looking for ideas to do a custom backsplash, or a fireplace surround, or flooring.”

Wason usually works directly with homeowners, who are often referred to Blue Rock by builders or kitchen and bath designers. “I never lead with, ‘Well, tell me what you’re looking for,’” she says.

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because that really impacts the type of product that will be a good match for them.” With kitchen countertops, for example, there is no single perfect material. Granite, which is one of the most durable materials, has “been around for thousands of years,” Wason continues. “Real marble is gorgeous—they use it in Europe all the time. But the consumer needs to understand, it is going to scratch, stain, pit, and bruise. If you’re a cook and use cast iron, engineered stone that looks like marble would be a better choice.”

Asked to identify a favorite new product, Wason immediately points out mosaic tile with a variety of textures in each square—honed, bush hammered, brushed, and polished. “Texture is really huge in design right now,” she says. “People will say that they want to start with neutrals, but then as we start looking at products, we get into things that have texture, which provides visual interest.” Clients who are planning to stay in their home for a long time are especially motivated to make bolder, more emotionally inspired choices. “I just designed a gorgeous blue bathroom with a full custom shower in a petrified-wood-look tile infused with blue-grays and oaky tones—high-gloss, big 8- by 48-inch planks, with all glass on the front,” Wason says. “My client said, ‘I want to get in there every day and just feel like I’m out in nature and at peace in this bathroom.’ It’s going to be stunning.”

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Wason is also a freelancer for Bobbi Brown cosmetics, which gives her an unusual edge in knowing what tile works best in bathrooms. “As crazy as it sounds, you need to look at complexion colors, and what is really going to make you look good when you drag in there in the morning to get ready for work.” The taupe shades of a few years ago are not flattering for many people, she says, and are being replaced by gray tones, notably greige—a combination of grey and beige. Beyond their obvious utility, bathrooms are increasingly being designed as places of refuge from busy lives, where “people can just take a breath and be alone for a few minutes in a beautiful space that’s easy to clean and isn’t going to break the budget.” Especially in Maine, “people want working beauty,” Wason says. “We want things to last a long time without having to spend a lot of time taking care of them.”

That said, her clients are more educated than ever before, encouraging designers to keep pace.

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A large granite fireplace installed by Alvin Ridlon sets the tone for this Long Lake camp. Designed by architect Paul Attardo of Attardo Pondelis Architecture in Yarmouth and built by Mark Conforte of Conforte Builders in Lovell, the house showcases the beauty of natural materials, like warm Douglas fir ceilings, soothing white oak floors, and, of course, rustic granite masonry.

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hen planning a house some architects start with the entryway, imagining how guests will someday walk up the steps, ring the doorbell, and wait for their greeting. Others begin the process by dreaming of a kitchen so large that half a dozen grandchildren could rummage through the various drawers and pantries without stepping on a single toe. But when it came to building an heirloom camp on the shores of Long Lake in Harrison, the team of Attardo Pondelis Architecture led by principal Paul Attardo didn’t start with the front door, or the kitchen, or even the foundations. For this project, Attardo started with the porch.

Built by Mark Conforte of Conforte Builders in Lovell, the contemporary camp features an enormous screened porch with a 28-foot-long glass door that lifts and slides, transforming the lake-facing side of the house into one large indoor– outdoor space. “Given the proximity to the lake, we knew the porch would be the most prominent feature of the house,” says Attardo. “It was important to connect the interior space to the landscape and take full advantage of the daylighting as the sun sweeps across the site.” The homeowners had been vacationing in Maine since the late 1980s, and when they saw this 48-acre lot on the shores of Long Lake advertised in a copy of the Boston Globe in 2005, they

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knew it would be a perfect place to bring their children and grandchildren for years to come. “When we approached Paul, we didn’t have a lot of things on our wish list,” the homeowner recalls. “But we did need a good fireplace, a big kitchen, and if we could do it, we wanted a magic door that would disappear so we could bring the outside in.”

While Attardo knew early on that his design would hinge on that door, it would take some effort to achieve a seamless merger of interior and exterior space. He approached Duratherm, a Vassalborobased window and door company, with his specifications and had them create a twopiece custom glass door that is both light enough to move easily and thick enough to keep in the heat. When not in use, “one piece retracts between two stone fireplaces and the other rolls along the kitchen countertop,” Attardo explains. He set the door flush with the white oak floor to ensure that there would be no visual boundaries to break the space into segments. Rather than trying to shoehorn this bold design element into an explicitly Maine-themed lodge, Attardo chose to take his design cues from the materials and the natural landscape.

“The driving force of the aesthetics was not the local vernacular,” he says. “The language of the building instead comes from the wood and the stones; we decided to let the materials tell the story.”

Inspired by the homeowners’ desire for a sculptural fireplace, Attardo worked with Conforte to select pieces of granite for the

“We kept the house [above] low to the ground, and the floor is pretty tight to ground level,” says Attardo.

“That helped ensure that the house feels connected to the land.”

While the homeowners brought in much of their own furniture, including the oriental rug in the living room, Attardo designed some walnut accents to add visual interest, like the light fixture that hangs over the dining room table (opposite).

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The kitchen and dining room area features granite countertops, oak cabinets, and on the left side of the image, a “working wall.� Attardo installed a light monitor (the set-back skylight seen at the top of the picture) to allow southerly light to penetrate into the space.

“To me, this captures the warmth of the interior,” says Attardo of this exterior view at night (above).

The porcelain tile of the entryway (opposite) flows seamlessly into the white oak flooring of the living, dining, and kitchen areas. The staircase leads to the second-story guest bedrooms and living quarters. (The homeowners’ suite is located on the first floor.)

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(Opposite, clockwise from top left): Granite and mahogany mingle on the hearth of the porch fireplace.

The approach to the main entryway features a gradual level change rather than a series of steps. A custom Douglas fir door with copper inlay depicts the site plan for the house. A newell features walnut and white-painted steel.

The owners’ suite vanity features Douglas fir cabinets and granite countertops. Attardo notes that there are additional LED lights set back into the wood trim around the mirror that create a flattering glow.

(Clockwise from left) A seasonal bathroom is used for rinsing off after a day at the lake. The client’s beloved outdoor cooking area. A shot from above showcases the crescent-shaped beach.

The owners’ suite bathroom (opposite) is connected to the bedroom by a glass panel, which allows for lake views even from this tucked-away space.

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living room fireplace that would harmonize with the colors of the coniferous woods and sandy beach. The homeowner also asked that the grout lines on the fireplace be “as tight as you can get them.” (As the space flows from indoors to outdoors, the grout lines on the stone work get successively wider, reflecting an overall trend toward precision indoors tempered by a slightly looser, more relaxed approach to the livable outdoor spaces.) “We sweated about those stones a lot,” says Conforte. “The devil is really in the details.” Whether he was working on the living room mantel or the outdoor patio, Conforte provided three-foot samples of each section of stone work to the homeowner for approval. The homeowner, Conforte says, likes to research every purchase he makes, and the lake house was no exception: “He’s a smart customer, and I appreciate that. When you work on a house like this, it’s no

fun watching it degrade around you as time wears on. You want it to last.”

While the stone work provided grounding elements in the lofty lakeside design, the wood helped balance out the effects of the large windows, adding coziness and warmth to the contemporary cabin. “We wanted to harken back to the kind of materials you would find in a traditional Maine camp,” Attardo says. “We decided to use wood as our base material and to play with the scale. Some of the interior boards are quite wide, while others have a pickled finish to let the grain show through, and others are painted a solid color for visual interest.” Attardo settled on white oak for the flooring; Douglas fir for the trim, cabinetry, and exposed beams; and pickled or painted pine planks for the interior walls. Although “in the old days they wouldn’t have done anything to pine,”

This hallway (above) is located between the main entryway (to the right) and the lake-facing window (to the left). In the center is a storage closet.

The porch (right) is doubtless the most striking achievement of this house.

Separated from the living room by one large sliding piece of glass (a custom order from Maine window company Duratherm), the porch is where the homeowners take most of their meals, read before bed, and enjoy long hours gazing at the serene waters of the lake.

The owner’s suite bedroom (below) features pickled pine walls and a large window that overlooks the lake. The homeowner calls their summer getaway “pretty near perfect.”

Attardo says, he decided to counteract the wood’s tendency to yellow with age by applying a beige-toned finish. To add visual interest, Attardo incorporated walnut into the neutral color palette. “Early on, the homeowners showed an interest in walnut, which is an interesting wood with so much variation in grain and tone,” he says. Attardo used the rich, dark species in the handrail for the steel staircase. “The stairs themselves are very thin and light,” Attardo points out.

“When we added walnut accents, it gave the staircase some weight and texture.” To help unify the open-concept living space, he designed light fixtures with walnut accents to illuminate the living room, dining room, kitchen, and porch.

(The dining set is also made of walnut, as are the living room side tables.)

While the house feels spacious, thanks to the lack of interior walls (and the prominent glass door), it has a fairly small footprint. The owners’ suite is located on the first floor and features a large bathroom with radiant floor heating, a retractable mirror (which can cover the bathroom windows for extra privacy), a tub, a shower, and a small water closet hidden behind a Douglas fir door. The second floor includes two guest bedrooms and two full bathrooms. Aside from the much-used screened porch, the kitchen is the “heart of the house,” says the homeowner. “Our grandkids like to come stay with us for the summer, and the kitchen is central to all our meals and entertainment,” he explains. “Paul introduced us to the concept of a working wall, which we hadn’t seen before—but it turned out really well.” This spacesaving feature packs all the major appliances, from freezer to pantry to microwave, into one wall. To provide additional counter space, Attardo added a granite kitchen island, complete with a cooktop and prep sink, situated parallel to the working wall. Since the homeowners wanted to spend much of their time on the porch, Attardo also designed a refreshment center for the three-season room.

But on truly spectacular summer evenings, few activities are more enjoyable than manning the grill. Although they couldn’t expand the house much farther due to local regulations, Attardo and Conforte figured out a way to create a workable outdoor space to satisfy the homeowners’ desire for an al fresco kitchen. Conforte installed a stone patio with a custom-built table and awning, which shelters a gas grill, smoker, and a small charcoal kettle grill. “On a good night, I’ll be out there, doing my thing with a glass of wine, smoking a brisket, and watching the sun set over the lake,” says the homeowner. “It’s pretty near perfect.” MH+D For more information, see Resources on page 114.

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The second floor of the Dunn house is cantilevered off a cliff face. It meets and extends past the lower floor. The sloping roof shown here supports solar panels and allows for a soaring space for a second-floor writing room (on the right) and a more intimate space for the sleeping porch (on the left).

The ground floor has (from left to right) a screen porch, great room, and owners’ bedroom.

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ohn seemed half-embarrassed as he sat with his wife, Sally, in Kaplan Thompson Architects’ office in Portland, talking about a piece of land that he and Sally had recently bought in Harpswell. “He had all these sketches with him,” says architect Jesse Thompson. “He had been thinking about their house a lot. He had an idea for a path to the water that would be up in the air.” Thompson was intrigued. The Dunns wanted their house to be contemporary and green— the very things Thompson’s firm specializes in—and they “were already thinking outside of the box,” says Thompson.

To truly understand the path-to-the-water concept, Thompson needed to see the site. The Dunns work in New York—he as a psychotherapist, she as a poet and professor—so they were camping on the lot when Thompson made his first visit. It was raining. The two were soaked, but they greeted Thompson eager to describe their hopes. Their plot ran alongside a tidal inlet but was reached from a high point on an adjacent steep cliff. John’s idea was for the second story of the house to fly out from the cliff until it joined the first floor below. The idea remains hard to visualize, unless you think of a T lying flat, with the vertical line as the

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second floor cantilevered out from the cliff until it meets the horizontal line of the first floor below.

“When we went to Jesse with my bizarre drawings,” John recalls, “he didn’t throw us out. He worked with us. He was very respectful.” Adds Sally, “John had good ideas, but we didn’t know if they were feasible in terms of engineering. Jesse would say, ‘This one will work. This won’t.’”

Mark Dorsey of Dorsey Construction in Freeport appealed to the couple as a builder, because he too looked at the design and simply said, “We can do this.”

Dorsey describes the structure as “an upside-down house.” On arrival, one first sees the extended vertical of the second floor, the long interior of which consists of a garage, two small bedrooms, and then (facing the water) a writing room with a cathedral ceiling and neighboring sleeping porch. The front door is down a level and reached by a walkway made of slabs of granite. (The couple picked the stone from George Couture in Bowdoin, who, Sally says, is the “rock star of the rock yard.” He allowed them to tromp about his extensive field and mark their favorite stones with empty soda cans.)

The ground floor is simple: mudroom, living room/ dining room/kitchen space, owners’ bedroom, and screened porch. The porch was included because

TKTKTK The front door opens into this mudroom with hexagonal tiles and Douglas fir built-ins.

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Sally Bliumis-Dunn looks out her kitchen window to a tidal inlet.

Hexagonal tiles are laid against the cork of the kitchen floor and the hickory of the living room floor in a pattern that suggests the advancing and retreating tide. The flat-panel cabinetry is accented with turquoise.

The color was inspired by cabinets that Sally saw with her husband, John Dunn, in an apartment in Israel. The countertop is a highly polished slab of live-edge walnut. The painting is by William Crosby.

A soaking tub from Italy (above) arrived without its drainage mechanism, creating a major installation challenge. The painting of a farmhouse is by Ingunn Milla Joergensen of Kennebunkport. The hexagonal tile was sourced in New York.

Architect Jesse Thompson suggested using copper for the balusters, handrail, and accents of this Douglas fir stairway (opposite). The painting is by Holly Lombardo.

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The wood grain shows through the turquoise stain on the flat-panel cabinetry (above, left) in the mudroom.

Copper strip detailing provides a contrast to the Douglas fir of the stairway wall (above, right).

(Opposite, clockwise from top left) A bedroom features a painting by Allen Bunker. Sally’s mother had an Eames chair in her house in Florida, and the forms of this red chair with an oval back reminded Sally of that classic midcentury modern chair. It was purchased at a Lillian Vernon outlet. A table that goes to a vanishing point with benches on either side forms a diner’s booth for playing games. The table has a folding leg, which allows the surface to lower down to the benches to create a sleeping area. The painting above is also by Allen Bunker.

mosquitoes were abundant the summer the Dunns first camped on their land; however, since then the bugs have been relatively absent. Windows or glass doors line the water-facing walls. From the outside, one truly senses Thompson’s goal to have the lower level of the home stretch along the banks of the water, embracing the length of the site.

The cantilever T wasn’t the only idea the Dunns brought to the table. John wanted the second-floor hall to have a Douglas fir diner’s booth for, as Sally puts it, “the grandchildren we don’t yet have to play Scrabble.” And both the Dunns wanted minimalist, contemporary forms with warmth, color, and some surprises. They didn’t want “cold modernism,” says Thompson, so the neutrals are white but also shades of brown, as with the Douglas fir in the trim and cabinetry and the hickory, cork, and hexagonal tile in the flooring. (In the kitchen, the tile was laid unevenly to mimic an advancing and retreating shoreline.)

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panel cabinetry, a hidden TV set, and a bluestone ledge for sitting.

As for color: vibrant reds, chestnut browns, and teals show up in the living room furniture. Flat-paneled turquoise cabinets, on which one can still see the wood grain, are used as accents on the fireplace wall and mudroom built-ins. A darker blue tile surrounds the efficient Wittus woodstove, which, with the air-source heat pump, keeps the home warm. Since solar panels provide electricity, and the house is well insulated with triple-glazed windows and thermally broken double-stud wall construction, Thompson says the Dunns should never have to pay a utility bill.

Despite interior design choices that already seem perfectly in tune with the architecture, the Dunns have not been in a rush to decorate. They want to make decisions deliberately, though they have already ensured plenty of sleeping surfaces for visitors. In addition to the guest rooms (one with a Murphy bed), three pieces of living room furniture convert into beds.

The upstairs diner’s booth is also cleverly designed, so the table flips down to make a sleeping surface.

“Some contemporary houses are very dramatic to walk through, but day-to-day living doesn’t work so well,” says

“Some contemporary houses are very dramatic to walk through, but living dayto-day doesn’t work so well,” says Dorsey.

“This house has a nice feeling. It’s one that would be very pleasant to live in.”

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Vibrant colors and wood allow the home to be modern but warm. The coffee table is from West Elm and has a pop-up portion that forms a laptop desk. The dining room table with a maple top and cherry legs is based on a coffee table that the Dunns saw at Chilton Furniture. The company obliged them by making this larger version. The art on the mantel is by Julie Houck.

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It’s one that would be very pleasant to live in.” An indoor pleasure is baking, one of John’s talents, and Thompson’s design includes a closet that John turned into a baking closet. Here, he stores a slide-out table with pastrymaking surface that he designed himself. An outdoor pleasure is swimming, which Sally does daily when the weather allows. Sally and John also like to kayak to a boat out of which a neighbor sells oysters. Sally says her writing space—whose high built-in bookshelves include poetry volumes and literary fiction, including a novel by part-time Mainer Elizabeth Strout—is “meditative because the water is always changing.”

When the Dunns first approached Thompson and Dorsey, Sally says, she wanted the home to be about the water and for the structure to be “almost beside the point.” The vistas are, indeed, primary, and

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the exterior—nicely textured with red cedar siding laid as shingles or shiplap—blends beautifully into the landscape. Otherwise, though, the Dunns’ home is too remarkable for this particular wish to have been granted. But Sally Bliumis-Dunn might have unwittingly made another wish, one expressed not as a longing but simply as a description of something she admired. It’s a line from one of her own poems, written years before she and John even had their land. It expresses fascination with a wave, something that she describes as “lift(ing) away / as though / it kept wanting / to be held / in the empty / hands of air.” Just like the bridge over land, the pathway to the water, that is her home with John. MH+D

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A Kennebunkport home designed by Caleb Johnson Studio with construction management by Woodhull of Maine features rectangular forms that seem to have been pushed and pulled out of the floor plan, flat roofs at varying heights, and numerous floor-to-ceiling windows. The eastern cedar installed by builder Company Nineteen was stained green by Galen Richards.

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Modern Nature A contemplative modern cabin set in the Kennebunkport woods

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he story of this home starts in a yurt. For three years, that was where Jeb and Adriana Burke, along with their two sons, Lucas and Mateo, would camp when they came up from New Jersey to vacation on their three acres of property in Kennebunkport. And it was what they were staying in when they first met with architect and principal Caleb Johnson, project architect Michael Chestnutt, and project coordinator Shannon Richards of Caleb Johnson Studio and, later, with Peter Floeckher, the head of Woodhull of Maine, Johnson’s general contracting company. While the home that stands here today is at the opposite end of the design spectrum from the Burkes’ original dwelling, the two structures do share one significant similarity: the feeling of being connected to the land. “We love the woods here,” says Adriana Burke. “We just gave Caleb a concept of big windows and the feeling of being outside, and right away, when he did the first sketch by hand, we knew he understood what we were looking for.”

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Johnson and Chestnutt created a one-of-a-kind threebedroom residence composed of various rectangular volumes punctuated with expansive floor-to-ceiling windows. “We were trying to do a modern retreat, a unique cabin in the woods for a couple who work in Manhattan,” says Johnson. “The big goals here were to provide lightinfused, interesting spatial relationships and a connection to the outdoors.” The first floor has an entryway, mudroom, open kitchen/living/dining area, den, powder room, and owners’ suite, while the second floor has the two boys’ bedrooms and a shared bath. Tucked off to the side of the kitchen/living area lies the dining nook. This placement “gives it a little bit more intimacy, while also including it in the other spaces without it being this old-style, closedoff formal dining room,” says Chestnutt. The owners’ suite is also situated for privacy, at the opposite end of the home from the open living area. Upstairs, one of the boy’s bedrooms is cantilevered over the den so that it seemingly floats among the tree branches. Each bedroom features

The ceiling steps up from 11 feet in the open kitchen to 15 feet in the living area (opposite). Tile flooring under the woodstove was required to meet code, but architect and principal Caleb Johnson made the most of it by continuing the material to the sliding glass door, where it can withstand incoming snow and mud. It also serves as a place to stack firewood. “It’s a nice, durable way of handling several things in one,” he says.

A painting by Jean Jack hangs in the dining room, which is connected to the kitchen and living areas as part of an L-shaped floor plan. The far wall is made entirely of JELDWEN windows supplied by Pinnacle Window Solutions. The white oak flooring from Devoe Color and Design Center was installed by Peter Hardwood Flooring.

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Although one of the homeowners is a retired chef, he wanted to keep the kitchen relatively simple. David Duncan Morris, the architect in charge of interior design, selected the porcelain backsplash tiles.

Above is the pickled pine nickelgap that Morris selected to wrap the home’s core.

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The owners’ bath (opposite) features clear-coated white oak cabinets, a quartz countertop inspired by the texture of sand, and a floating vanity.

A wall-to-wall mirror visually expands the volume of the space.

The bed in the owners’ bedroom faces the view of the trees. “The room is like a visual and auditory escape,” says project architect Michael Chestnutt. The painting is by Barb Cone of Art Collector Maine.

modern built-in closets, which were crafted by Woodhull of Maine, and they are connected by a Jack-and-Jill bath with a separate shower/toilet chamber.

From the exterior, the various volumes seem to be pushed and pulled and even suspended over the L-shaped floor plan, creating boxy forms enhanced by a flat roof. On the inside, these extrusions are reflected in fluctuating ceiling heights that playfully rise and fall, depending on whether one is entering a more public or private space. The ceiling height over the open kitchen, for example, is 11 feet, while it soars to 15 feet over the connected living area, helping to subtly define them as two distinct spaces even though they’re one room. Throughout the home, the windows—some tall and narrow, others filling the entire wall of a room—perfectly frame the trunks of the pines, birches, oaks, and maples that ring the property. “The windows open up a whole slice where you can connect ground, trees, and sky,” says Johnson. “And you really get a feeling of the woods always coming in.”

The windows’ placement also means that, any time you enter a new space, you’re always walking toward a view—looking outside rather than facing a wall. The combination of the window sizes and placements along with the fluctuating ceiling heights creates an experience that Chestnutt likens to a walk in the woods. “It’s kind of like the expansive views of a vista and then you get more intimate and special glimpses—say, the way some rocks are piled and you can see underneath,” he says.

Head up the staircase and you see the sky; turn around to go down, and you see a tree trunk rising up from the ground.

In both the owners’ suite and the dining nook, one wall is made entirely of glass. “There the room seems to dissolve, and it becomes like an intermediary within the landscape,” says Chestnutt. In the owners’ suite, the glass is opposite the bed, so that the Burkes wake up and immediately see the graceful long lines of white birch trees. What’s it like to have that as your view? “We sleep very well,” says Burke. “It’s an especially nice feeling when we come from the city. When we wake up, it takes

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Builder Company Nineteen installed the random-width eastern white cedar and recessed the windows in the double-stud wall construction (opposite). Both design elements create shadows, which give the exterior a feeling of depth. “It’s an appreciation of the variety of light and shadow that is in the woods, whether it’s dappling through the leaves or whether it’s the more direct, hard shadows from the branches and the trunks,” says Chestnutt.

(Clockwise from top) The two sons’ bedrooms are connected by a shared bathroom.

Each room has a built-in closet constructed by Woodhull of Maine.

Woodhull of Maine brought the vertical window trim to the floor, enhancing the sense of height throughout the home. They also eliminated the usual overhang where the treads and risers meet in favor of simple 90-degree angles.

The railing, which has the same finish as the floor, was inspired by Shaker designs.

Where a threshold typically conceals the rough meeting of two different flooring materials, Woodhull of Maine’s precision keeps the lines perfectly square.

a little bit of time to figure out where we are.”

For Johnson, creating that simple, peaceful feeling was paramount. “A lot of architecture and design is trying to make these big style statements or show complicated detailing or something,” he says. “For me, it’s more about quieting down the noise. Just let the outside be the outside. Let the wood be the wood. Let the stone be the stone. Just keep it quiet.

There’s already enough noise going on.”

Indeed, the home’s use of materials—including white oak and pine—is kept natural and simple, and the overall palette is decidedly calm. The Burkes were open to color, however, so David Morris, the architect in charge of interior design, used it selectively. In the kitchen, tiles by Patricia Urquiola create an overscale backsplash. With more than two dozen different designs installed in a random pattern, the backsplash becomes almost an art feature. Below it are navy cabinets and a bright orange Bertazzoni range—a bold contrast that, despite Jeb’s background as a retired corporate chef, was the only kitchen request that the couple made.

The Burkes also opted for color on the exterior. The eastern white cedar is painted a dark green rather than left to weather.

The color lets the home blend into its surroundings, as do the vertical lines of the siding, which was milled specifically for the home in varying widths that builder Company Nineteen, led by John Haskell, installed at random. Because the home has double-stud wall construction for energy efficiency, Company Nineteen was able to set the windows back. “That creates this beautiful shadow line and gives you this depth,” says Johnson. “In a lot of beautiful, old buildings, you’ll see they paid a lot of attention to this. We were very careful about the shadows that are being cast.”

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The home is filled with those types of careful details: small touches one might not even necessarily be aware of, but that all help to create a sense of harmony throughout the home.

For example, the horizontal trim around the doorways is always inset into the vertical trim, which draws the eye up and enhances the feeling of verticality felt throughout the house.

The treads and risers on the staircase meet in neat 90-degree angles—without any type of ornamental overhang—in order to create the cleanest look possible. Also continuing the simple look is the white oak stair railing, inspired by Shaker design. “Their railings are just serpentine beautiful things that aren’t interrupted,” says Johnson.

Although the story of building the Burke’s home begins with the family camping in the yurt (which still stands just steps away), their connection to Kennebunkport goes back much further. Jeb grew up spending summers at his grandmother’s house nearby, working as a waiter at the Colony Hotel as a teenager and at the Kessler shoe factory.

The Burkes continued to visit the area every year, staying with friends or family until one friend in particular—someone Jeb had known since his teenage days and who has three sons— sold him part of his land. Now that the two are neighbors, the five boys all surf, take out ATVs on the properties’ trails, or go out boating together. “It’s exactly what we were looking for,” says Burke. “It’s private and somewhat secluded, yet you’re still very close to Kennebunkport. When we are here, it’s like, ‘Okay, we can take a break and disconnect.’ It’s a little oasis in the middle of the woods.” MH+D

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The shower in the owners’ bathroom (opposite, left) features tile installed by Ben Herbert Woodwork and Tile.

One of the boys’ bedrooms is cantilevered out over the den (opposite, right).

The home’s design was driven by “always letting the inside and outside be close to each other,” says Johnson. Whether you’re coming in the entryway, seated at the dining table, or walking down a hall [left], at every turn you’re always facing the outside.”

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“Last year I watched spring unfold for the month of April as part of a residency at Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. I became fascinated with the wild vines invading the Virginia woods and returned to them daily, curious about the movement and beauty of their destructive growth. I drew and painted them en plein air, and continued to develop variations of the idea when I returned to my Bangor studio.

These invasive vines engage me through their movement and form, and through the way they also parallel the structure of roadways and rivers in the aerial landscapes that I have been painting for years. Whenever I paint, I search for the distinctive visual elements that nature presents. Whether walking the shore in Addison, Maine, where I spend the summer, or working on Maine islands where I have enjoyed recent residencies, I try to witness changing light and tide, along with the natural rhythms and movements essential to these places. I draw to identify and document my interests. When I later assimilate these experiences in my studio, I encourage color surprises by first underpainting the canvas surface with vibrant colors that interact with subsequent layers as the process develops. The painting becomes a new reality that expresses the experience of being in that place.”

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Marigold, Blues and Spring Violet, 2017, gouache on paper, 42” x 42” “I make large-scale abstract gouache paintings on paper and panel. In each of my Ovoid, Block Stack, Arc Sweep, and Cropped Ovoid series, I use different arrangements of shapes and colors to create a feeling of transcendent order.

These images are anti-chaos; all strive for a connection to a moment for reflection, resolution, and calmness. My works have luxuriant, protean color and are infused with soft, sublime texture. In painting each piece, there is an experience of exhilaration and renewal. I stack and pile simple shapes, placing them, then sizing and creating visual relationships that build into larger rhythms. My best paintings work like Japanese haiku; each image is paired down to its essentials, and each becomes a complete world of its own. In these paintings, I aim for an effect deeper than the joy of beautiful surface and color; I want to generate visual places, points of departure for states of serenity and contemplation.

“In my Ovoid series, I enjoy the play of organic shapes against the white of the background, creating tension as the ovals touch or separate in varying degrees. These images reflect velvety textures such as moss, as well as disparate edges, sizes, and patterns coexisting in nature. Each shape is drawn and carved out by the edge of the brush. I use gouache paint on Rives printmaking paper; I blot and dab myriad hues to create complex and delicate surfaces. It is the thrill of potential in each new piece that keeps me exploring in the studio.”

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Green Beach Umbrellas, 2017, acrylic on canvas, 36” x 48” “My paintings are often described as happy, which is satisfying to me because I started painting again six years ago to cheer myself up when my youngest child started going to preschool. He’s one of six, so I had a lot of blissful years at home with babies, and I was sad to be done with this phase of mothering. I paint to feel happy and alive. I paint to remind myself of goals and lessons. I also paint because it stays done—it’s tangible evidence that I am productive and generative. My work is often defined by bright colors and looseness, but there is always intention, symbol, and metaphor on the canvas reminding me to be growing and improving. I rarely overwork a painting. In fact, often I stop much earlier than anticipated because I am excited about the work before I reach a conclusion. I don’t want it to be a perfect rendering of a scene or object. It speaks to me in its present, minimalistic state—it is enough. In that way, my work is indicative of appreciating the journey and destination, and of being content with the present.”

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STEVE ROGERS

Big Jim, 2017, acrylic on canvas, 28” x 32” “I have never ceased to be fascinated by ships and the sea. In fact, marshlands and boatyards will do just as well. I am amazed by the craftsmanship, design, and beauty in the building of a ship or a simple skiff. I love the stark beauty of the wetlands, the sheer power of the ocean, and the inherent structures in the docks and warehouses of a working waterfront. So much of what we see today of our marine heritage is slowly fading away under the irresistible and relentless pressure of development.

My work is simply a small effort to preserve some memories of what used to be for those who remember it fondly and for those who are unaware of what life was like only a few short decades ago. Some people have said there is a sadness in my work. The emotion they refer to is more a recognition, admiration, and respect for the lives and work of the people who work on the water. I consider myself fortunate to be able to pursue my art and share it with the public.”

NANCY GRACE HORTON Blast Off (Ms. Behavior series), 2011, archival pigment print in editions of 10, 17” x 17” & 30” x 30”

“To me, being a human is overshadowed by being a female human.

A defining experience of my adulthood was realizing the extent to which media and commerce sexualize females, exploiting their power yet at the same time leaving them powerless. This incongruence mystifies and troubles me, and drives my work. I respond by constructing narratives that challenge stereotypes, using photography to produce images with bold colors and compositions. I incorporate fragmentation of the female form, cultural symbols, and humor. My goal is to explore the awkward intersection between personal versus cultural identity, and thereby prompt questions and dialogue about society’s gender conventions. “ MH+D For more information, see Resources on page 114.

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LET THE LIGHT IN From thick embroidered drapes to whisper-thin honeycomb cell shades, Budget Blinds in Falmouth has a plethora of options at every price point

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good set of drapes can transform a room, yet many people leave the process of choosing window coverings to the very end of their design project. “When people come to us, it’s often their last stop—or they’re here because they are trying to solve a problem,” says Karen Glass, who co-owns Budget Blinds in Falmouth with her husband, Peter. “Whenever we do a home consultation, the first thing we try to figure out is what’s their pain point—what is the problem they want to solve,” she explains. A room may be too light, too dark, too cold, or too hot.

Windows, Karen says, add a lot of beauty to a room, but they can also introduce big issues.

“If we can make their lives more comfortable while making their place prettier, that’s just perfect,” she says.

Budget Blinds is a national business with over 1,000 franchise locations across the country. In addition to the Glass family store in Falmouth, there are also Budget Blinds in West Baldwin, Topsham, Kennebunk, and Bowdoin.

Karen and Peter got into the window coverings business 14 years ago. They were looking to buy a business that would allow them opportunities to be social and imaginative, and selling window treatments happened to fit the bill. “Peter still jokes today that if someone told him 20 years ago he’d be talking to Miss Jones at the party about how her drapes puddle on the floor, he would have said, ‘You’re out of your mind,’” says Karen with a laugh. “But he loves it. The work is creative and it’s technical, which plays to both our strengths.” While Karen handles the bookkeeping and management side of the business, Peter spends much of his time in sales, working with homeowners looking to upgrade their living room curtains and businesses looking for a deal on their roller shades. They’ve worked on large-scale projects, such as Maine Medical Center and Ocean View

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2. There are thousands of window treatments to choose from at Budget Blinds, from wooden blinds to shutters to thick fabric drapes to delicate honeycomb cell shades.

3. A small sample from their extensive fabric library.

“Many of our books are color coordinated, making the selection process easier,” says Peter.

4. Sample of materials from the Inspired Shades Roller Shades Collection. “The collection features an exclusive palette of plain fabrics with a large selection of bold, vibrant new prints offering custom solutions to designconscious customers,” explains Peter.

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2. PureVu Plantation Shutter with 3.5-inch hidden tilt louvers in Espresso. “The dark color was selected to bring drama to the room and ties in with the finish on the island in the adjacent kitchen,” says Peter. at Falmouth, as well as plenty of smaller one-off gigs. (A recent memorable job involved installing a set of blue jean– inspired denim shades at a funky, chic home near Sugarloaf.)

But whether they’re working with a condo company to ensure optimum privacy or helping a homeowner pick up some sleek new drapes, Peter and Karen are always striving to address two issues: comfort and budget. Windows affect the light and temperature of a room, so the first thing Peter does during a home consultation is to try to determine the homeowner’s needs. If the client wants to sleep more soundly, he might recommend dark, thick drapes. If the client wants a contemporary and dramatic look, he might try pairing black shutters with graphic patterned drapery (Budget Blinds designer Lynn O’Neal recently used this combination on a “dramatic and super cool” South Portland property).

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window coverings, they are “like furniture for your house.

They completely transform a room,” she says.

But the other key feature of the Budget Blinds business ethos can be found right there in their name (they don’t recommend shutters to every customer). “The word budget doesn’t have as many positive associations in New England as it does in the rest of the country,” says Karen, “but we really embrace it.” After all, everyone is on a budget. It’s up to Karen and Peter to figure out how to address a client’s issues at the right price point. Fortunately, Budget Blinds has literally thousands of options to choose from, and this year they’ll be adding a few hundred more, thanks to a new library of fabric options they will be launching online to allow customers to mix and match styles and fabrics. “We’ll be able to customize like crazy,” Karen says. Whether you want a wood-grain print in eggshell blue or a crosshatch floral vine in gold, the Glass family business has got you covered. MH+D

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Among the Stars In PhoPa Gallery’s Between Earth and Orion, Jeannie Hutchins explores her own subconscious

Falling Stars, 2017, cyanotype, 8” x 8”

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anadian American artist Jeannie Hutchins is primarily a photographer, yet her most recent work stretches the medium as she experiments with silk, cyanotype, and gum bichromate prints. Her upcoming exhibition at PhoPa Gallery in Portland, Between Earth and Orion, highlights the artist’s innovative nature. Previously an upholsterer and community health nurse, Hutchins combines her knowledge of psychology and fabric design to create multimedia artworks that feel immersive, both mentally and emotionally. In various installations, delicate silks move subtly, interacting with the kinetic flow of light and air in the gallery, as each viewer has a unique experience with the work depending on the weather and time of day; viewers’ appreciation of the work deepens as they approach her art from alternative angles, where it materializes differently. Through softedged figures of unknown identities and surreal nightscapes infused with flashes of light, the exhibition gestures toward a mystic, intuitive understanding of subconscious life.

“Hutchins creates a unique object, greater than a singular photo, that allows viewers to enter into the subject matter through multiple channels,” says gallery director Sophia Namara. “Her installations subtly dismantle preconceived notions about how photography should be presented, and in learning and mastering new media, she goes deeper in her self-exploration.”

Although her work may unintentionally reveal universalities, it is deeply individual. “She’s not trying to speak for everyone, but she is trying to understand her own humanity and place in the universe by making art,” Namara adds.

Between Earth and Orion, featuring the work of Jeannie Hutchins, will be on view at PhoPa Gallery from March 7 to April 21. The gallery will also host on opening reception on March 8 from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. and an artist talk on April 15 from 3 p.m. to 4 p.m. On the following pages, Maine Home+Design offers a preview of the exhibition. MH+D

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Aurora, 2016, silk, wood, and digital print, 12¾” x 12¾”

Gilt, 2017, silk, wood, and digital print, 12¾” x 12¾”

I Dream of Earth and Sky #3, 2014, habutai silk print, 30” x 30” Gold, 2017, silk, wood, and digital print, 12¾” x 12¾”

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Mountain, 2017, cyanotype, 8” x 8”

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Lovely contemporary home with a wide angle, unobstructed ocean view to the west and an open floor plan for comfortable modern living. Large kitchen provides lots of work space and island. Convenient first floor ensuite guest room. Very large second floor ensuite bedroom. Ensuite master bedroom overlooking the ocean. MLS 1317198 Kathy Leeman 207.504.6866 | $935,000

Exclusive waterfront home imagined by Midcoast Home Designs and to be built by highly regarded Frohmiller Construction Inc. Expansive eastern facing views and deepwater frontage. The 11 acre lot is part of the McCarty Cove Association, with rights to an association deepwater dock a short walk from the site. Subdividable. MLS 1335025 John Collins 207.607.2442 | $791,000

High quality Contemporary-style Cape. The property consists of a 4,200 s.f. residence on 1.9 acres with 254’ of waterfront that is navigable to open ocean. Easily accessible common dock area.

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Beautifully landscaped & in truly move-in condition. MLS 1309118 Dennis Duggan 207.522.3747 | $995,000

Grand and stately colonial of yesteryear in Camden’s historical district. Step into the glorious past. 5000’+ 5 bedroom main house and 2000’+ 3 bedroom carriage house. Seasonal water views to be improved upon. A treasure. MLS 1308353

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Unmatched beach access and ocean views await you at this charming and recently renovated two-bedroom cottage in the new Driftwood neighborhood at Popham Beach. Situated only steps from Popham’s seven-mile white sandy beach, the cottage is being sold fully furnished and with new appliances. MLS 1308353 Jon Leahy 207.798.2428 | $435,000

Estate quality parcel with a building envelope that enjoys commanding views over the Kennebec River toward Atkins Bay and Popham Beach. Postcard views of the Perkins Island lighthouse to the West and open ocean to the South. Easement that provides for the necessary conditions to construct a dock. MLS 1313016 John Collins 207.607.2442 | $575,000

370' of frontage on Mill Cove, a beauitful tidal cove, which opens to Wheeler Bay. Beautiful 1.5 acre parcel conveys with a deepwater access on Captains Walk. A short ride to either Port Clyde or to an airport from this beautiful part of the Saint George Peninsula.

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ulfilling a lifelong dream of building on a small plot of land purchased more than 35 years ago, Joe Waltman of Waltman Architectural Design has begun construction of the Tower House on Littlejohn Island in Yarmouth. The site poses a number of challenges, most notably its narrow building envelope, which restricts the width to 20 feet, including roof overhangs. Therefore, the widest section of the building foundation is only 17 feet. This restriction also presents some surprising advantages: every room has both northern and southern exposures, five of the rooms are exposed on three compass points, and the tower room has light from all four directions. The extreme east-west axis was moderated with roofline variations, a tower, strong perpendicular floor-plan alignment, and an array of architectural details. Occupying one of the highest points on the island, the tower room has the feel of a tree house with views of Casco Bay. The cedar siding and green trim will age gracefully in the wooded lot, and the round conservatory/dining room looks out on natural ledge, where a secluded stone patio will welcome guests on a peaceful summer evening. Inside, the house features barrel-vault ceilings, an exposed three-story staircase, balconies, and intricately interconnected woodwork. MH+D

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Location: Littlejohn Island Designer & Builder: Waltman Architectural Design Construction start: September 2017 Construction complete: May 2018

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