Tag: Nantucket homes

Beach chairs and a yellow umbrella on a sunny Nantucket beach with sand dunes, beach grass, and classic shingled homes in the background
Nantucket Voices

A Carpenter’s Definition of Wealth

I have worked inside some extraordinarily expensive homes.

Homes with wine cellars larger than my first apartment. Homes with hidden doors, imported marble shipped across oceans, and refrigerators sophisticated enough to probably qualify for voting rights in certain states. I’ve stood in kitchens worth more than entire neighborhoods I’ve lived in while in college in Arizona.

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The Magic House

by Sarah Teach The Town of Nantucket calls it Three Derrymore Road; some friends call it The Magic House. But to its architect and builder, the saltbox inspired structure built from materials gathered largely from the Nantucket dump is home sweet home. Ole Lokensgard is a Kilimanjaro-climbing, poetry book writing […]