My Space: Inside their homes
Peter Hotton
Handyman on Call Looking for furniture cushions
Handyman On Call Odor from a gas dryer; stains below windows
Handyman on Call Keeping a door fitting tightly; getting rid of Zoysia grass
Martha Stewart
Carol Stocker
My Space Archives
Compost tea keeps the landscape grounded
By Susan Chaityn Lebovits, Globe Correspondent Outside of John Engwer's Wrentham office stand two 300-gallon containers filled with compost tea. The mixture, with ingredients such...
Historic, with modern flair
Architects Scott Slarsky and Katarina Edlund are minimalists. They are modernists. And the couple are the first to confess that they are not preservationists.
An eye for a world full of artifacts
Cary Wolinsky once roamed the globe photographing for National Geographic, but today he is transforming his Norwell home into a museum for his treasures. "This is not a collection. It is an accumulation," an antique dealer friend said once of his home.
Designer transforms Nantucket home
Josephine Sasso bears no ill will toward quaint and traditional Nantucket decor. But when it came time for the Pennsylvania-based clothing designer to decorate her own island abode, Sasso crafted a theme that recalled her youth.
Inside the home of a 'young decorator'
"Young decorator on the verge" Annsley McAleer's design sensibility leans toward the traditional, mostly because she grew up in Beaumont, Texas, and attended Vanderbilt University in Nashville, she said.
In one couple's old attic, a study in contrast
Step up into Noel and Holly Getch Clarke's attic, which the couple transformed from an unfinished, cobweb-covered wreck and into an office, and the look is instant serenity.
One posh pad with a view
Real estate developer Curtis Kemeny gives us an inside look at the former Newbury Street office building that has been converted into posh condos. "It's the ultimate bachelor pad," he says. "I'm a divorced guy with no kids, so I figured that I've got a few years where I can enjoy [it]."
A South End loft with South American flavor
Frank Campanale, the owner of the South End store diseno/bos, travels to Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay every other month on the hunt for home furnishings. Campanale's retail store is chock-full of the goods. And his condo is full.