Nest House Hunt: Jessica and Nick
If you’ve been through the process, you know there’s a learning curve, complete with near misses, drama and mystifying paperwork along the way. If you’re starting to think about getting out of that rental and buying your own home, our House Hunters just might have some eye-opening tips for you. Home at Last: After a…
View Finder: Photographer Jim Westphalen Gets the Picture
At Edgewater Gallery’s Mill Street location in Middlebury, Jim Westphalen’s photographs seem to open like windows onto Vermont’s crumbling, leaning and sagging vernacular architecture. The Shelburne artist’s solo show, titled simply “vanish.,” elevates the documentation of New England’s dilapidated barns and industrial relics to the level of rich, intimate and astoundingly sharp portraiture. Westphalen’s sophistication…
Diving Deep: A South End Designer Makes Old Stuff New Again
The Burlington furniture and home goods shop Deep 6 is captivating: An air plant floats in an Erlenmeyer flask; Thoreau’s Walden goes for a ride in a wire basket fastened to the body of a toy bike; a steel tripod becomes an industrial lampstand. These and other whimsical constructions are the hybrid creations of 24-year-old…
New Book Illuminates Simon Pearce’s Influences and Design Philosophy
Most people acknowledge that their parents had some influence on their tastes and preferences. For the glassblower and artist Simon Pearce, the parental effect looms large. Even today, Pearce, 70, can picture almost everything his family sat on and cooked with in his childhood home in southeastern Ireland. The house itself was a typical Georgian…
Into the Woods: A Brooklyn Family Settles in North Ferrisburgh
In a remote, wooded spot at the end of a winding dirt lane in North Ferrisburgh sits a house that is intimately familiar to people all over the country. That’s because the Knoll House — as its designer, Bristol architect Elizabeth Herrmann, named it — was recently written up on Houzz, the home-design website that…
DIY: Batcave Bedroom
When Kele Bourdeau moved into a house in Burlington’s New North End two years ago, she wasn’t a fan of the wood paneling covering many of its walls. In the living room, she painted the planks a soft grey and was surprised by how much that lightened up the space. She took a much bolder…
Bayberry Commons Hopes to Grow Burlington’s Housing Market — and a Community
A new complex in Burlington appears to consist of a row of townhouses, each with a unique façade: Some have ocean-blue or yellow siding; others, deep-red brick. They all face a common square that will soon contain green space, community gardens, apple trees and a grilling pavilion. Old-fashioned streetlights, equipped with energy-saving LED bulbs, overlook…
Nest — Fall 2016
As temperatures begin to drop, our focus shifts to the indoors. And even if we resist turning on the furnace just yet, we can still warm up the décor. Fall Nest is here with suggestions from classical to contemporary to vintage and DIY. In a new book about Simon Pearce and his elegant handmade glassware,…
