Haley Rice and MacArthur Stine Make Their Home in a Historic Church
Haley Rice remembers that, as a little girl, she always wanted to live in a church. Now her dream has come true: In October 2016, Rice and husband MacArthur Stine moved into the former St. Mark’s Church in Castleton. With some imagination, a lot of elbow grease and inventive décor, the couple has turned the…
For One Local Company, Awnings Aren’t Just Window Dressing
We’re not out of the woods with nor’easters yet, but pretty soon it’ll be spring sunlight streaming down instead of snow. And as the temps heat up outside and in, so does business at Otter Creek Awnings. Homeowners hoping to keep cool have looked to the Williston company for decades — and not just for…
A Burlington Landscape Architect Creates Functional, Sustainable Outdoor Spaces
Cynthia Knauf wants to help her clients live outdoors. No, not in tents or teepees. Rather, as the sketches in her office illustrate, the Burlington-based landscape architect designs extensions of their homes — in front yards, driveway perimeters, back patios, and often-overlooked nooks and crannies. “You have to be creative and see the potential in…
Canvasworks Designs Makes Artwork You Can Walk On
Lisa Curry Mair has painted murals, her husband’s vintage canoe and worn-out horse saddles. “Basically, if it’s not moving, I paint it,” she said on a recent morning at her Weathersfield home. Her artistic bread and butter is also her least conventional surface: the floor. For more than 20 years, the Massachusetts transplant has cultivated…
A Next-Generation Realtor Steps Up to Run the Family Biz in Bristol
A couple in their early eighties looked carefully around a tidy ranch-style home at the edge of Bristol. The wife liked the house and the two-acre lot; the husband, not so much. He eyed the spacious backyard and said glumly: “Lots of lawn to mow.” With the couple clearly at odds, the moment called for…
Burlington Homeowner Turns Old Outbuildings Into a Sweet Airbnb Pad
Eva Sollberger didn’t set out to become an innkeeper. But shortly after construction began last year on an addition to her Burlington home, the idea of renting out her tiny backyard house as an Airbnb property started to make dollars and sense. Sollberger, 44, lives in an 1890s-era home overlooking the Winooski River that likely…
Nest — Spring 2018
Who’s ready for the birds and bees? Harbingers of spring, that is. We sure are. In this issue, we embrace the floral glory of a Burlington backyard. We go indoors to peek at a cute Airbnb apartment and a Castleton home in a former church. Rachel Elizabeth Jones oohs and ahhs over a Vermont artist’s…
