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Marijke Niles cried after she moved to Starksboro from South Bend, Ind., in 2001. While she was happy to relocate to northern Vermont — close to mountains and her daughter, who was then attending college in Montréal — Niles had a problem with the grounds around the home she and her husband had bought. Everything…
Ward Joyce had yet to set foot inside the tiny waterfront cabin in Waterbury when he told his Realtor that he wanted it. “I cannot believe this piece of property is for sale,” Joyce remembered saying the first day he saw it in 2020. “I’m making an offer right this minute. What do we have…
After spending a couple of decades studying and teaching architecture, Johnson resident Michael Zebrowski is using what he has learned to solve some of the thorniest problems plaguing society today. Zebrowski’s company, Up End This, manufactures mobile buildings and has been contracted to create 10 of the 30 “shelter pods” that the City of Burlington…
When professional home organizer Eileen Dugan was living in Fairfield, Conn., she never had to define what she did for a living. But it’s a different story when she’s talking to prospective clients in Vermont. “I don’t have to explain home staging. I don’t have to explain moving help … But a lot of times,…
As a kid, Kara Koptiuch rode horses and carpooled to the barn with a prominent Vermont real estate agent. From the wheel of her stick-shifted Saab, the Realtor would take calls and pick up voice messages, writing on sticky notes as she steered, Koptiuch recalled. Koptiuch thought the work looked exciting. After she graduated from…
As he set up his instruments last month on a sunny dock on the shores of New Hampshire’s Lake Winnipesaukee, land surveyor Randy Otis said he felt perfectly at home in his profession. He likes where it takes him. “The real beauty of this work is, we’re not stuck in a cubicle. We see some…
Spring means new growth, and there’s plenty sprouting up in this issue of Nest, Seven Days’ quarterly magazine on homes, design and real estate. In Starksboro, a longtime gardener nurtures native plants and community at Marijke’s Perennial Gardens Plus. In Waterbury, architect Ward Joyce is living the stream — er, dream — after dramatically renovating…
