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Be Our Guest

There are so many dos and don’ts for the dinner table! But, what if setting the table was like composing a symphony in which the melody was memories from your childhood?…

“It always surprises me, that moment when I just ‘click’ with clients and find a hidden connection between us, when they give me, as a design professional, permission to express what they see as beautiful.”

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Lillian Bogossian

“When I am putting together the design concept, where I gather all my ideas and samples into a presentation packet just for that client, I love that whole process. I can already see the complete room that I am creating at that point.”

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Transitions

Before, during, and after the cleaning frenzy, local businesses bridge the gap between one person’s old and someone else’s new. Like matchmaking, they connect home goods, furniture, and décor with its new rightful owner who can reinvigorate life into a piece.

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TechQuarters

Home automation moves into the everyday with a suite of services that allows you to manage your home with the touch of a button or with voice command…

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Come to the Table and Give Thanks

You don’t think much about a dinner table when it sits there unoccupied and unused. It is just furniture. Something you need to dust, from time to time, and to move when you have to vacuum. It can be a handy place for putting packages. It helps if the table is well made or old or somehow distinguished. But it is still just a table and, somehow, lifeless. But in the last months of the calendar year, the dining room table comes into its own, especially in New England…

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Fighting the Winter Blues

How can you bring more color into the winter landscape? Here are some tips, from easy and temporary to a bit more of a commitment.

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History on the Hearth

Antique bricks represent a small part of human civilization. And Patrick Branley searches demolition sites throughout Vermont and most of New England to find them.

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The Vermont Gardener’s Companion

We gardeners love to read gardening books, because no matter how experienced we are, we can always learn something new.

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Hidden Attributes

This house looks the same as it has for a century but it’s a mechanical marvel.

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How to make your everyday breakfast, lunch or dinner table special.

All of us have our “good things” tucked away for those special occasions but I would like to make a case for taking these beautiful things out of storage and using them any day of the week.

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Can’t sleep? Try counting threads instead of sheep.

We spend one third of each and every day sleeping so why not unravel the mystery of selecting the proper sheets.

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Bright New Ideas For Selecting Lighting For Your Home

I sat down with Joanne VanDeusen, the proprietor of The Lighting Place on Main Street in Manchester to have a chat about the most common lighting questions. I came away with lots of new tips and a few tricks in helping to select the proper fixtures. Here is what she shared with me.

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Something in your home is naked. I hope it isn’t your windows.

Window treatments like most things in the marketplace have come a long way. They are no longer the little old lady lace affair with polyester sheer under drapes and the style and price varies widely to fit any desire or budget.

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Summer …. It’s all about the exteriors.

They say it takes three years for perennials to really shine and I am on year two. It is a daily pleasure to visit my garden each day and see what has bloomed when I wasn’t looking.

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Selecting Tile. Read on. You may need this someday.

It seems to me that there is a renewed interest in remodeling kitchens and baths and that makes a lot of sense in this type of an economy. Most folks figure they have to stay put so why not spruce things up a bit. An important element in a kitchen and bath design is the selection of tile and one that should be chosen carefully.

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Selecting paint colors. When art meets science.

Peel back the layers of any wall and I am sure you will find a few mistakes in the selection of paint colors. Even experts, on occasion, select the wrong shade now and then. Let’s find out about the science of paint so that we have more confidence in selecting “mistake-proof” colors for your home.

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Concrete Comes Inside

I grew up in the ‘concrete jungle’ of New York City, where my experience with concrete was the bruises it caused on contact with the neighborhood kids’ knees. Not an endearing history with the material. Fast forward to now, where concrete has made its’ way inside, paving the way (sorry) for a trendy, industrial style […]

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What Those Pretty Icicles Tell You About Your Roof

Your roof will tell you how well your insulation and ventilation is working.