It’s amazing what a few miles can do to the market. This month, we compare a luxury unit on Shawmut Avenue with a sun-filled contemporary west of Boston.

Where to go and what to see for your spring arts fix.

In Yo Ahn Han’s mixed media artworks, lacy cuttings fashioned as flowers symbolize the fragility of life as his vibrant colors celebrate it.

The colors of spring (and fall) inform the scheme in the pattern-filled interiors of this 1920s house.

Inside award-winning landscape architecture, covetable clothing collections, and energetic homes with heart.

Creative elegance abounds at the international hotelier’s first North American outpost, where there’s also an emphasis on the Hub’s history.

Designer Whitney Talsma goes all-in with feminine flair in a bath built for one.

Thanks to the 130-year-old Nantucket Historical Association, stories about the island’s multilayered cultural heritage live on.

A refined four-season home keeps the island’s oceanic conditions top of mind.

Can this $2.5 million listing break local sales records? If those chandeliers have any say, the answer is a resounding yes.

A suburban home embraces its pastoral setting while a sophisticated contemporary sensibility surprises inside.

Fresh, fragrant blooms have the ability to transform spaces and one’s state of mind.

Designer Marla Mullen Sanford looks at the relationship between the runway and room décor.

Friends and family are always welcome in this empty nest, where the moody New England aesthetic has a global, bohemian flavor.

A Cambridge Victorian last updated in the 1970s gets a vibrant 21st-century revamp.