Mary Grauerholz

Massachusetts

Freelance Writer and Editor at Freelance

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Articles

A 1970s Malibu Beach Bungalow Receives an Interiors Upgrade

3 weeks ago | oceanhomemag.com | Mary Grauerholz

No wonder the couple craved a home that embodied serenity. They had been racing through their lives in Los Angeles for a number of years, enjoying the vivid entertainment-business world and raising their children. They found their new calm, centered life in their second home, which they had been using as a weekend getaway. A 2,500-square-foot Malibu bungalow, the home offered ocean waves lapping at the shoreline and a gentle breeze that allowed them to open doors and windows most days.
Refresh Your Outdoor Space for Spring 2025 with these Expert-Backed Furniture Trends

2 months ago | luxurypools.com | Mary Grauerholz

Spring presents a bouquet of possibilities to refresh your outdoor space. Poised on the edge of the full outdoor season, springtime is the perfect time to dress up your property and poolside setting for a new season of play and chilling outdoors. Here, two experts weigh in on trends in outdoor furniture, sharing insider information on how to fulfill your dream for a fresh, new look.
Baja Wellness Retreat Nua Nakui Embraces the Enchantment of Nature

Feb 14, 2025 | oceanhomemag.com | Mary Grauerholz

Jasmine Scalesciani-Hawken was lingering on a beach in Baja California Sur, Mexico, basking in the serenity of the ocean before her. Her husband, the environmentalist Paul Hawken, was at a local conference, and Scalesciani-Hawken had a little solitary time. Suddenly, she was enveloped in a wistful childhood memory of Sardinia. “It was very wild and beautiful,” she says of the Italian island. As a child of Europeans, she foraged the untamed landscape of Sardinia as her playground and natural teacher.
A New Southern California Guest House Capitalizes on Old World Mediterranean Style

Jan 29, 2025 | period-homes.com | Mary Grauerholz

This article first appeared in the Winter 2025 issue of New Old House. Like a clutch of jewels, the family compound is poised on the cliffs of the Southern California coast, radiating the sublime vibe of a tiny, historic Mediterranean village. The guest house, the last building in the compound to be erected, could be the most sparkling gem of the lot.
Landscape Designer John Sharp Creates Escapes and Oases Along the California Coast and Beyond

Jan 21, 2025 | oceanhomemag.com | Mary Grauerholz

With dramatic canyons, verdant swaths of green, and glimpses of ocean waters, Southern California’s coastline offers buckets of beautiful vistas. Dotting the craggy hillsides are impeccable midcentury homes that define a cultural history of the area. Many of the gardens surrounding these homes are the work of John Sharp, a landscape designer who belies his youthful age, 34, with a deep sense of design and the natural world.
Family-friendly Long Island Home Merges Durability and Sophistication

Dec 12, 2024 | oceanhomemag.com | Mary Grauerholz

For homeowners with a young, active family, a child-friendly house can mean different things: extra spaces for children to grow or room to run outdoors. For a professional couple relocating from New York City to Sands Point, a Long Island village, the request was more direct. “They wanted nothing precious and delicate,” recalls designer Amy Kalikow.
Light and Airy Design Creates a Blissful Beach Retreat in Delaware

Sep 26, 2024 | oceanhomemag.com | Mary Grauerholz

The first known use of the word serenity occurred in the 15th century. Even hundreds of years ago, it seems, people were hardwired to notice feelings of blissful calm. Today, creating interior peace, especially at home, is an often-treasured goal. For Marnie Oursler, owner and president of Marnie Custom Homes in Bethany Beach, Delaware, and interior designer Jessica Weeth, achieving a home that emanates serenity was the springboard to a new Deleware beach house.
Function Meets Style in a Newburyport Kitchen With French Influences

Jun 10, 2024 | nshoremag.com | Mary Grauerholz

If you ask David Davis to list his favorite places, vying for the top spot likely would be the French Lacanche range in the remodeled kitchen of the Newburyport home he shares with his wife, Beth Davis, and their four children. With a view of the garden and warm sun drifting in through a new skylight, most nights find David happily perched at the stove, perhaps making his family’s favorite, paella.
Urban Garden

May 28, 2024 | traditionalbuilding.com | Mary Grauerholz

The history of the home’s setting is so luminous, it could set the most jaded person’s heart aflutter. The red brick townhouse on Boston’s Beacon Hill, a national historic landmark, was designed by architect Alexander Parris in the early 1800s and built for textile manufacturer Nathan Appleton. Appleton’s daughter married the poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow here; the painter John Singleton Copley called it home. The 54th Regiment Civil War troops marched past the townhouse on their way to war.
Nostalgia and Sustainability Guide a Beverly Cottage Renovation

May 27, 2024 | nshoremag.com | Mary Grauerholz

When a pair of siblings inherited their grandmother’s cottage on Curtis Point, they viewed it from a wistful perspective: The Beverly property was their childhood playground, a place for whiling away summer days, catching vast ocean views beyond the rocky cliffs. Awash in childhood memories of the Atlantic Ocean and cliffs, the brother and sister knew that they wanted that same feeling when they visited as homeowners today.