Cover Story: Maine Home+Design, July 2024

Respectful renovation of a grand seaside home makes it fit for today—and ready for generations to come.

Cover Story: Connecticut Cottage & Gardens, February 2024

Chic colors and playful patterns fill a classic Georgian with youthful exuberance.

Maine Home+Design, September 2023

“Art as the Driver. We call it the ‘driver’—a textile pattern, a beloved rug, or a fantastic piece of art selected to be the ‘informant’ on every project—the piece that will drive the project’s color palette and the mood. We were faced with a large blank wall when we were asked to turn this waterfront living room into a ladies’ sitting room. We were so delighted when our client agreed to relocate the Alex Katz piece from her stair hall so it could be appreciated front and center in her updated sitting room. We love the abstract, seductive nature of this mysterious woman donning her sun bonnet.”

—Linda Banks, Banks Design Associates/Simply Home

Decor Maine, Issue No. 8

The working waterfront in Portland is marked by vibrant colors, seafaring action, schooners, tourists, locals, and enticing smells from incredible restaurants. It appeals to all ages. So, when Linda Banks and Edith Smith were hired as the design consultants for the developer and new owners of a building on Portland’s iconic waterfront, she wanted to match the energy of the scenery and consider any age that might want to live there.

Maine Home+Design, January/February 2023
2023 Interior Design Listing—Residential

The inspiration and mission for this new house was “unpretentious classical coastal” without being clichéd nautical. The ocean view inspired the layout to orient work areas toward the windows overlooking the five-acre round meadow on Casco Bay.

Decor Maine, Issue No. 4
By Brian Shuff, Photography: François Gagné

Long admired for her work on New England’s coast, Linda Banks turns inward, designing for herself at this Falmouth escape,

Banks Design Associates awards:

Grand Prize: Overall Bathroom Category
1st Place: Large Bathroom Category
1st Place: “Before & After” Bath Category
3rd Place: Large Kitchen Category

Maine Home+Design, May 2021
By Laura Fenton, Photography: François Gagné

The constraints of a tiny island location informed every choice in the 850-square-foot home.

Better Homes & Gardens, Life in Color, October 23, 2020
By Elizabeth Sweet

Interior designers turn to these tried-and-true shades of blue, green, and gray for cozy rooms.

Business of Home, 50 States Project, May 18, 2020
By Kaitlin Petersen

We’re chatting with Linda Banks, who moved her bustling Connecticut design business to Maine in 1998.

Whole House, American Society of Interior Designers, New England Chapter
September 2018

Maine Homes Design Awards - 2018 Readers Choice Winners

Banks Design Associates won two categories: Professional Curb Appeal for Peter’s Cove, Harpswell and Professional Living and/or Dining Room for Ship Channel, Cape Elizabeth. In addition, Banks Design Associates tied for runner up in the Professional Living/Dining category for Luxe Barn, Falmouth.

New England Home, Summer 2018

New England Home loves Simply Home's Denim blue baskets in blue white, for a stylish way to stash everything from toys to laundry.

Elle Decor Online, July/August 2018

Elle Decor features a colorful, Falmouth entry by Banks Design Associates in an online feature on "Ways to Take Your Foyer to the Next Level with Artwork."

Cover Story: Maine Home+Design, February 2018

This vacation getaway right around the corner from Falmouth Town Landing Market makes a statement. 

Maine Home+Design, February 2017

According to Linda Banks, the airy weekend house in Ships Channel “really is perched at the edge of the sea, as if you were on the bow of a ship.”

New England Home, Summer 2017

A renovation reveals the gem hidden within a careworn shingled cottage on Chappaquiddick.

Cover Story: Maine Home+Design, September 2016

On Falmouth Foreside, a 1960s colonial is taken down to the studs and opened up to the ocean.

Residential Designer Choice

Residential Public Space

American Society of Interior Designers, New England Chapter
November 2015

Maine Home+Design, September 2015

Begin (or complete) your design project with furniture and all manner of home goods from the Simply Home, where various vignettes provide loads of inspiration.

Cover Story: Maine Home+Design, April 2015

A gentle face-lift to a John Calvin Stevens house in the West End takes its cue from the canvas.

Cover Story: Maine Home+Design, July 2014

Maine cottages and traditional Capes inspire the design of a Harpswell home.

Maine Home+Design, February 2014

On Orr’s Island, clean, classic design with a thrilling twist.

First Place - Residential Multiple Space

First Place - Residential Public Space

First Place - Residential Kitchen

American Society of Interior Designers, New England Chapter, November 2013

New England Home, March-April 2013

A home that once belonged to a shipwreck diver becomes a real catch for a California family who looks forward all year to summer on the Maine coast.

Maine Home+Design, Aug 2012

The classic farmhouse gets a modern-day take in Cape Elizabeth.