Featuring salty finds, no-frills furnishings, and one heckuva view, this formerly drab fixer-upper on Maine’s Boothbay Harbor is now a beacon for game nights, lobster bakes, and the requisite vacation puzzles. Here’s how the pieces fell into place.
Mary Barrett was 16 years old when her parents bought a vacation home in Maine’s Booth bay Harbor. And while the Georgia resident loved summers spent by the shore, she never imagined she’d one day own her own piece of the Pine Tree State, much less a historic place just a mile from where it all began. But in 2009, when an early 1900s home in need of a little love hit the market in an area of Booth bay Harbor known as Juniper Point, Mary and her husband, Xavier Duralde, took the leap and set sail on a seven-month renovation. “We’d been visiting the area with our four children since they were born, but never planned on buying,” she says. “But when I stood on the porch of the little red cottage and spotted my parents’ house just across the water, I got goose bumps. It just felt right.” Here’s how Mary artfully designed a casual coastal retreat in keeping with her state’s “Vacationland” slogan.
Vacationland Rule #1:
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