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Posted Jan 27 at 1:16 PM in by carly stewart
Oriental Rugs are not just any eye-catching rug you snag from the sales rack. These centerpieces hold precise elegance with unique characteristics that immediately draw the eye in any room one is placed. There are a handful of reasons for owning one of these exclusive hand knotted treasures. We’ve heard from the experts at Gregorian Oriental Rugs, a family owned business that continues to follow...
Posted Jan 24 at 10:28 AM in by Sandy Giardi
Perched above the sandy banks of a salt pond in Chatham, and adjacent to a prized golf course, stands a luminous new Shingle Style home. Gracious but playful, it’s a friendly wave of a house, designed and built by Polhemus Savery DaSilva Architects Builders. A firm that is “very serious,” says design principal and architect John DaSilva, “about designing homes that do not take themselves too...
Posted Jan 23 at 2:37 PM in by Jen Harvey
President of Clarke Distribution Sean Clarke was awarded with an Innovative Showroom Award at the 2017 Kitchen and Bath Industry Show.
The award honors the best showrooms in the kitchen and bath industry. Clarke Distribution recently opened their third and newest Sub-Zero & Wolf Showroom at 7 Tide in Boston’s Seaport District. The showroom focuses on making the experience educational for...
Posted Jan 20 at 11:42 AM in by Anonymous
There is something about water that soothes the mind, slows the heart rate, and brings a sense of ease. John Battle, Owner and Principal of Battle Associates Architects, has become an expert in channelling that sense of wellbeing into waterfront homes that radiate calm and invite relaxation. Many of these homes are centralized around magnificent boathouses that bridge the gap between land and...
Posted Jan 16 at 1:48 PM in by carly stewart
What better place to enjoy your homemade meals than on the beach? This Provincetown kitchen goes through a dramatic improvement with views to die for. With a front-row seat to Cape Cod Bay, this space needed changes in order to open up the dead space throughout the room to expand the Cape Cod light.
Deborah Paine, a Cape Cod design/build firm, literally brought the sunshine into the existing ...
Posted Jan 12 at 3:51 PM in by carly stewart
2017 is the year for new beginnings. PANTONE Color Institute symbolizes these changes in choosing the Color of the Year, Greenery. PANTONE Color of the Year is a symbolic color selection of what the experts see taking place in the global culture throughout the year that brings a specific expression of mood and an attitude.
PANTONE Greenery is the neutral color of nature and is versatile in...
Posted Jan 10 at 11:21 AM in by Sandy Giardi
Belle of the Beach: An Oceanfront Paradise is Reimagined for Intergenerational UseAs seen in Boston Design Guide 2017, the 20th Anniversary Edition. - View the Digital Edition here
A close-knit band of family and friends have descended on the postcard-perfect peninsula on Buzzards Bay for years, returning to the summer playground for lazy, memory-filled days, where time, for a few blissful months...
Posted Jan 9 at 10:44 AM in by carly stewart
9 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA – a newly restored and renovated residence receives acclaimed Pinnacle Award.
(Main Image: Photo by Peter Vanderwarker)
Before & After images of 9 Commonwealth Avenue façade
A seven-story French Academic style townhouse, built in 1861, was originally designed as one of two symmetrically designed homes, 7 and 9 Commonwealth Avenue. Each home incorporated a bay...
Posted Jan 6 at 12:45 PM in by carly stewart
“The House of Shifting Sands” sits amongst a sixty-foot-high coastal bank and is surrounded by miles of undeveloped Cape Cod National Seashore beaches and scrub pines. The award-winning home is conceived as a collage of overlapping, cantilevered planes and volumes that deliver large living. Sea-Dar Construction captures the clients vision to use the house as both a year-round family “camp” and as...
Posted Jan 5 at 1:20 PM in by carly stewart
HAPPY NEW YEAR! An insider's look at our top 10 Instagram posts from 2016. Follow us at @bostondesignguide for more beautiful photos to come in 2017!
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Sooo, when can we move in? | Architecture: @lda_design; Photo: @gregpremruLDa Architecture & Interiors
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How do you decorate for the holidays? Share your seasons style by tagging us and using #BDGHoliday. We’re reposting our favorites!
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