Northshore Home magazine highlights the best in architectural design, new construction and renovations, interiors, and landscape design.
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cultivate a vintage corn grinding wheel set into its face to me- morialize the local millers. Siberian iris faces the street where daylilies once reigned (although the daylilies were banished, they were not wasted—in good frugal Yankee spirit, they were shared with the next door neighbor). Also, to soften the house, trumpet vines were trained on wires to grow up the front. Climbing hydrangeas camouflage walls, a series of hornbeams form an arched tunnel to link with the barn, and an added two-bay garage with wisteria draped over its sides was given a whimsical custom trompe l'oeil mu- ral of the couple's Corgi accomplished by local artist Julia Purinton. But the truly unique factor was the boxwood maze that was planted, sequestered from the street. (Actu- ally, the maze shrewdly covers the home's septic tank, serving as a creative way to dissuade anyone from driv- ing over that tender part of the yard.) Although nothing is new about the liaison between boxwood hedges and Colonial homes, the maze is certainly a unique spin on the tradition. Ann Uppington adapted the design from a 17th-century maze from Chantilly, France. The maze is composed of swirling lines radiating from a central boxwood circle hemming an armillary sphere set on an ornate plinth. Lovingly maintained over the years, it is Architect: Randall Kipp Architecture