Consummate Home Connoisseurs
House and Garden: A view toward the 1960s A-frame, where it all began.
Photo: Annie Schlechter
When Sumner Freeman bought this 1960s A-frame house in Fire Island Pines in 1980, the property it sat on was so obscured by poison ivy, catbrier, and Virginia creeper that he couldn’t even see it, and yet it called to him. “It was charming, and I could see the possibilities, and it suited me,” Freeman says. In the 1990s, he bought the house next door and then, in the aughts, with his partner Roy
A home renovation business whose Portland headquarters were destroyed by fire earlier this month is rebuilding itself — and assisting 10 other small businesses that were also damaged.
Offices of Design Concepts were a “total loss,” according to founder and owner Carey Goltz, after a June 11 blaze ripped through a 26,000-square-foot warehouse complex at 160 Presumpscot St.
But Design Concepts has reopened in showroom space used by a division of the company, Maine Floor Supply, next door at 142 Presumpscot St., Goltz said in an email to customers Monday. And she is looking for a new permanent location.
“We
