Project Nursery Interview With Tracy Davis

August 23, 2011 Urban Dwellings
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The design experts at Project Nursery recently took note of our project for young client, Thea, a nursery turned special personal space that she could enjoy all through her growing years.  As a result, they featured an interview with Tracy Davis on their blog.  Read the full interview here, and for more details on the project itself, keep reading below.   Child's Name: Thea Child's Age: At the time of completion Thea was 2 Location: Coastal Maine Description: This project was designed to be a special, personal place for a little girl to enjoy throughout the many stages of youth. Design Inspiration: My design inspiration for Thea's bedroom and adjacent playroom was based on the desire to create a unique, individual space -- a space that was so personal and fun … [Read more...]

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Woman’s Day Special Issue: Remodeling & Makeovers (Volume XX1)

July 1, 2011 Urban Dwellings
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Design New England (May/June 2011)

May 30, 2011 Urban Dwellings
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NY Times Article Features Urban Dwellings Project!

November 4, 2010 Urban Dwellings
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Recently the NYT featured an article highlighting must-do/see activities in Portland, ME.  Bayside Bowl, a project that Urban Dwellings was privileged enough to work on warranted a mention.  Click here to read the entire article, and then take a trip down to Bayside Bowl and see what all the hype is about!   … [Read more...]

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Maine Magazine Features Bayside Bowl Collaboration (September, 2010)

October 8, 2010 Urban Dwellings
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Recently Urban Dwellings had a hand in the newest bowling joint in town, Bayside Bowl!  Below is an article featured in the September issue of Maine Magazine. The building on Alder Street in Portland, a short street that slants one way from Oxford to Preble, is tucked onto a quiet section of the Bayside neighborhood, where it's no surprise that it once housed light-industrial activities like telephone sales.  Just barely open the door and you hear it: the dulcet knocks of the lanes at Bayside Bowl. "Bowling's been one of those things nobody talks about," says Nat May, executive director of SPACE Gallery.  Or, as he is known at the lanes, "Michael Bowlton."  May's unassuming character shifts slightly once he dons his bowling shoes and hooks the ball toward the rows of pins sixty … [Read more...]

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Lighting Designer Greg Day featured in Maine Home & Design

October 8, 2010 Urban Dwellings
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Greg Day's roots are in rural Maine, where as a young child he began to consider the permutations of light, the extravagances of space, and what he perceived as a nucleus of urban landscape and infrastructure - long before he had the vocabulary with which to understand or communicate any of it.  He went on to study architecture and architectural engineering at the University of Kansas, followed by years abroad and in New York City.  Today he can be found in his studio in Bath overlooking the Kennebec River, being both "a full-time lighting designer and a full-time painter."  He says that each feeds the other. Day calls himself a "builder of paintings."  Using computer-aided drawing software, he has designed an organic grid that theoretically never ends.  Each painting - intricacies … [Read more...]

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Get Inspired: Children’s Room Design by Urban Dwellings’ Tracy Davis

February 26, 2010 Urban Dwellings
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As Featured On Chictip.com Since starting Interior Design firm Urban Dwellings, in 2005, Tracy Davis has quickly risen to become one of the leading lights in Interior Design. We connected with her firm to learn more about one of her recently completed projects, a Safari-themed Children’s Room. Photos are courtesy of Darren Setlow. … [Read more...]

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Individual Elegance in Urban Design: An Interview With Tracy Davis

January 29, 2010 Urban Dwellings
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As Featured at AvaLiving.com, January 2010 For urban dwellers, there are often a host of recurring challenges that range from a lack of closet space to generic beige carpeting. Paint colors change, light fixtures are replaced, but still the struggle remains of how to create an interior that speaks to, and of, the individual. This conundrum is largely what drives Tracy A. Davis, the Principal of the Portland, Maine and New York City-based design firm Urban Dwellings. Her creative team is a collaboration of architectural design, travel, communications, photography, interior design, and illustration. These skills are all applied collectively to create interior spaces that are based on architectural understanding, and that reflect the emotions and personality of their clients in an urban … [Read more...]

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“Here Comes The Sun”: Maine Home & Design (July 2007)

August 2, 2007 Urban Dwellings
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As featured in Maine Home + Design, July 2007 Here Comes the Sun... Sunrooms that fill summer days with splashes of light Tracy Davis, owner of the interior-design firm Urban Dwellings in Portland, first saw this Cape Elizabeth sunroom under renovation, and knew that decorating it would be a challenge. “The space is an unusual shape”, she says, “and the post smack in the middle was like having a wedge taken from the whole pie.” Davis broke the sunroom down into more intimate spaces by clustering furniture together. “I used smaller, low furniture, too” she says, “so as not to obscure the view.” And with a canopy of the trees and ocean just beyond the windows, what an unspoiled view it is. “There’s a real tranquility to this space,” Davis says. While Davis … [Read more...]

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“Condo Mania”: Port City LIFE (January/February, 2006)

March 10, 2006 Urban Dwellings
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As featured in Port City LIFE, January/February 2006 Condo Mania Affordable Luxury in a Small Package By Susan Gentile-Hackett The first condominium I ever heard of was a vacation home in the hot sun of Florida, and back in the 1970s it seemed a part of the American dream. Condos continue to equate with that dream, but in a new way. Today they have become primary residences and a luxury lifestyle choice. Condominiums are a fast growing segment of the single-family market, and development is sweeping across parts of Maine. In Portland alone there are plans for more than 600 condos in the city; they are expected to sell for more than $300,000.00 each. Depending on size, custom-built features, and potential views of Casco Bay, some could sell for more than a million dollars. “Right … [Read more...]

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