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Posted Dec 3 at 9:10 PM in by Sandy Giardi
A couple had long admired a gracious Georgian estate in Wellesley. They were taken with its streetside presence and imagined raising their family there. And though they weren’t looking to move, when they learned the home had been put on the market, they jumped at the chance to make the dream a reality. Suddenly talk of “if only” became a matter of “when,” and there was a new conversation—how to...
Posted Dec 2 at 5:02 PM in by Sandy Giardi
Jeff Soderbergh Sustainable Furnishings & Fine Art is celebrating the grand opening of a new studio and showroom in Portsmouth, Rhode Island, December 7. Stop in from 3-6pm for holiday bites and sips (including a sushi truck if you get there early!), and see the realization of a dream 20 years in the making. Custom furniture maker and sustainable artist Jeff Soderbergh shares that he had been...
Posted Nov 27 at 4:31 PM in by Sandy Giardi
Duravit USA names the winner and the distinguished runners-up of its 7th Annual Designer Dream Bath Competition and BDG was honored to play a part. Duravit USA teamed with sales partner Frank Webb Home to scout the hottest bathroom designs in the Northeast incorporating Duravit’s timeless yet cutting-edge products. Designers hailing from Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New...
Posted Nov 26 at 2:24 PM in by Sandy Giardi
Nick O’Hara of O’Hara & Company is donating 100 percent of the sales of his fun, rustic stone fire pits to The Leo Project. An initiative close to his heart, The Leo Project is a non-profit organization that was started in honor of Nick’s daughter, Caitlin, who passed away in 2016 following a double lung transplant. It’s the vision of Jess Danforth, another extraordinary young woman who vowed...
Posted Nov 25 at 5:16 PM in by Edie Ravenelle
A Scraggy Neck island house in Bourne had coastal views and good bones, yet neither were being featured well. So, Alissa Hike Harris and Chris Harris, co-owners of Salt Architecture Inc. in Falmouth, launched a renovation to fix the home's impediments. "We opened up water views from a kitchen that had been set back and walled off from the view," explains Alissa, "in addition to enlarging the...
Posted Nov 21 at 2:35 PM in by Sandy Giardi
In the hands of premier builders, architectural designers and landscape professionals, rugged design elements take on a heightened sophistication....
Mudroom with a tack-room feel...
Builder: Merz Construction; architecture: Dewing Schmid Kearns Architects + Planners; photo by Peter Vanderwarker.
Part of an addition to a Carlisle farmhouse, this generous mudroom by Merz Construction abuts an...
Posted Nov 19 at 5:09 PM in by Sandy Giardi
Clarke’s Mobile Showroom puts food trucks to shame when it rolls in to food and wine festivals, design events and charity fundraisers to bring that extra bit of sizzle and delight to culinary-minded guests and gourmets. This 1980s passenger bus turned appliance showroom on wheels is equipped with a fully working world-class Sub-Zero and Wolf kitchen and is the first example of a mobile kitchen in...
Posted Nov 18 at 4:37 PM in by Sandy Giardi
Penthouse Wet Bar & Wine Fridge
Cocktail hour is even more intoxicating when enjoyed by the bold and beautiful wet bar (above) created for a Back Bay penthouse renovation by custom builder Adams & Beasley Associates. The bleached walnut bar, the color of fine bourbon, is bejeweled by a backlit honey onyx backsplash and floating star fire glass shelves that add drama and intrigue.
Living...
Posted Nov 15 at 4:08 PM in by Sandy Giardi
It used to be that Onyx Corporation was thought of as just an excavation company. No longer. These days, the full-service Acton-based landscape contractor is tending to projects as varied as pools and entertainment spaces to orangeries and orchards to reclaimed hardscapes for historic homes.
During autumn, however, “fire features seem to be what people are thinking about,” says Landscape Division...
Posted Nov 14 at 12:25 PM in by Sandy Giardi
Ever since BDG ran a “Successful Women in Building” feature two years ago and dubbed Eleni Kaplan of E.K. Sanford Builders one to watch, we’ve been tracking her career and progress in a highly competitive field.
Eleni Kaplan of E.K. Sanford Builders
In just two years, she’s completed a spec home in Sudbury, a custom build in Sudbury, numerous bathroom and kitchen remodels, and her newest project...
