Mount Desert Island Archives - Maine Homes by Down East

When It Was Time To Rebuild, They Went Smaller

By Sarah Stebbins on May 17, 2022

We’re crushing on this 1,035-square-foot MDI camp with an outsize view.

By Elizabeth W. Garber on Apr 18, 2022

Writing from her job as a maid in a grand estate with a colorful caretaker, an author finds fresh purpose.

By Sarah Stebbins on Jul 28, 2021

But now they’ve got “a house we feel like was designed for us.”

By Virginia M. Wright on Jun 17, 2020

A patchy landscape is made worthy of its perch on MDI’s famous fjard.

By Maine Homes on Feb 24, 2020

Welcome spring early with a sinuous arrangement of forced bulbs and backyard greens dreamed up by Beth Renault, of Mount Desert’s Floret.

Photographed by Susan Garver

By Abby Hilt on Feb 14, 2020

Photographer Susan Garver celebrates one of Maine Coast Heritage Trust’s newest acquisitions.