Though he’s easily over six feet tall, Steve Walker is dwarfed by the dark mountains of sawdust behind him. Color that brown dust gold: It is the humble raw material that built Walker’s /n/n10 million business, New England Wood Pellet. Walker’s business is growing fast — about 40 percent this year — and, with the spike in oil prices, it’s…
It may look like ceramic artist LuLu Fichter has gone dotty with her all-white porcelain bowls and vases. The white motif is in opposition to the colorful flowers she painted on someone else’s pots for years. As a production potter, she finally burned out on the process. Fichter, from Peterborough, started teaching and was inspired by her students to get…
It’s time to stop worrying about perfectly matching furniture. If you like it, it will all work out — with a few simple rules. By Kimberly Merritt Design-savvy homeowners appreciate beautiful surroundings, but they also want them to reflect their own personal style as well. In today’s fashionable interior design circles, “eclectic” is a look that is here to stay….
Michael Buckley’s new restaurant, Buckley’s Great Steaks, is now open in Merrimack. The former location of the Woodbury House has been tastefully renovated to keep the historic quality, but yet the interior is fresh and inventive. Pumpkin pine wainscotting, exposed brick and beams add to the charm, while sleek lighting fixtures and window treatments add refinement. No surface was left…
One family’s arduous journey from Tinseltown to Manchattan. By Lou Bortone I’m certainly not the first person to relocate from the left coast to the Granite State. But more and more, I’m finding fellow California exiles who’ve given up the sun and celebrities of SoCal for the rural, rustic, slower pace of New Hampshire. “Why on earth did you leave…
Living off the power grid, Laura Richardson practices what she preaches. The volunteer president of New Hampshire’s Sustainable Energy Association (NHSEA), Richardson is passionate about renewable energy and sustainable living. She spends about 50 hours a week spreading the gospel about sustainability. Two years ago Laura founded NHSEA (www.nhsea.org), the New Hampshire state chapter of the Northeast Sustainable Energy Association…
Hope someone kept the receipt for the E-ZPass system. By Charlie Arlinghaus It’s January already. Time to look over the presents and take the ones back that don’t make sense now that you sit back and think about them. Do you really need an electric shoe polisher? And that chocolate fountain — when will I ever use that? Oh, and…
By Barbara Radcliffe Rogers Few activities work up an appetite quite so fast as a day’s skiing. It’s the combination of cold weather, exercise and fresh air that makes skiers ravenous by the time the lifts close. Fortunately, wherever skiers congregate in the White Mountains, so do restaurants. It’s fitting to begin a ski/food tour where skiing began in New…
Jean Harlow sheaths, Marilyn Monroe mermaids and voluminous ball gowns sumptuous enough to make Cinderella envious are the bridal silhouettes of the 2006 season. Michelle Bouchard, owner of Down the Aisle in Style, a boutique salon in Manchester, just returned from New York’s 2006 spring bridal runway shows with a preview of the season’s hottest trends in bridal wear. “Many…
