Nest — Summer 2015
Landscaping 101; Home Tour: Projector House; Introducing ‘Nest’ House Hunt; Decorating Your Backyard; DIY Container Gardens
Obituary: Adrian Gagne
Adrian Gagne, of Deland, FL and Swanton, VT died peacefully December 27, 2014 at his home in Deland, FL. Born Joseph Adrien Gagne on January 14, 1913, in St. Clement, Quebec; he was the 6th of 17 children of Charles and Emilia Gagne. Adrian grew up in the Riviere-du-Loup area of Quebec, learning the blacksmith…
Obituary: Constance J. (Magee) Abeling
Constance J. (Magee) Abeling passed peacefully with her family by her side on August 31, 2015 after a 13 year battle with a brain tumor. Connie was born in Woodsville, NH on June 7, 1940 to Clayton and Doris (Lane) Magee. She was raised in Essex Junction, Vermont and graduated from Essex High School in…
Obituary: Cecile Marie Murphy
Cecile Marie Murphy, age 91 years, a lifelong Swanton resident died early Monday morning, August 31, 2015, at the Franklin County Rehab Center in St. Albans Town Born in Swanton, Vermont on, August 20, 1924, she was the daughter of the late Josephat and Rose (Lemaire) Boucher. She attended St. Anne’s Academy and was later…
Seven Ways to Decorate the Outdoors
One of the pleasures of summer in Vermont is opening the back door and padding onto a sunny deck or the soft grass of a backyard — preferably barefoot. That space outdoors may have sky for a ceiling, but it’s still a room of sorts. And whether it’s an apartment balcony, a petite city yard…
DIY: How to Plant Containers
I live in an apartment with an incredibly shady so-called backyard: a 10-by-15-foot expanse of dirty concrete tucked behind my driveway. I’ve always wanted a big garden, but, unless a demolition crew knocks down the buildings blocking my sun, rips up the concrete and lays down good gardening soil, it’s not going to happen. While…
Nest — Summer 2015
It’s summertime and the living is … outside, mostly. In this issue we focus on planting a bare backyard and making “rooms” outdoors. Plus, we take a home tour of a lakeside house called “Projector” and introduce the Nest Home Hunt. All this and more in Seven Days’ quarterly supplement about home, design and real…
Projector House Faces the Lake With Style
Architectural designer Kristen L’Esperance was barely out of grad school at Pratt Institute, and looking at a bleak job market, when she fell into a plum professional project that she calls “the second half of my education.” The job? Designing a house for her father. All by herself. And project managing the construction. Sleek and…
A Landscaper Helps Fix Backyards
In the spring of 2014, after nearly two frustrating years of house hunting, my wife, Stacy, and I finally landed our dream home on a bucolic dead-end road in southern Chittenden County. The house sits on about an acre of partially wooded land, sandwiched between a working farm and nearly 100 acres of conserved forest.…
Introducing Nest House Hunt!
…in which we follow first-time home buyers on the search for their dream homes. 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…
