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KITTERY, Maine — Interior architect Amy Dutton has an eye for detail and design. She puts together textures and colors in imaginative ways, adding this accent, that shape to create something that is unique.

That sense of flair is evidenced everywhere in her new business, Amy Dutton Home on Walker Street. Part gallery, part store, part showroom, part dream factory, Amy Dutton Home brings together all of the ideas Dutton has been collecting over a 20-year career in southern Maine.

Anyone who has an itch to redesign a room or even an entire house would likely be inspired by what Dutton has created at her 9 Walker St. location. She has carefully selected about half a dozen artisans, mostly from Maine, with whom she has done business for many years.

“I’ve worked with most of them for ages. I respect their work and I know their quality,” she said.

Among them are furniture designer Craig White of York, rug designer Angela Adams of Portland, weavers Riverdog Design from West Gardiner and potter Zoe Zillion of Vermont. Pieces from all of them are in Amy Dutton Home, tastefully arranged. But Dutton’s own flair is present everywhere in the gallery. To inaugurate her space, Dutton designed her own line of fabrics — some graphic, almost mathematical prints inspired by architecture and other prints inspired by nature.

These designs can be reproduced in all sizes and colors. If you like the print but not the color scheme of the sample, you can chose your own. And they appear on everything from pillows to purses, lamps to curtains to bedspreads.

For instance, her white birches design is scaled small with a blue background when used as a valance. The same design, much bigger with a white background, is used for curtains. The same design may show up in lime green in a lamp and in pale lilac in an accent pillow.

Dutton clearly lets her whimsical and sense of flair guide her. She has even teamed up with Hale Landscaping in York to create an outdoor space just behind her business that brings interior architecture outside.

Homeowners are welcomed to come to Amy Dutton Home and work with her to redesign a room or an addition. But she hopes she has created a place where those in the design business are also at home.

“I will give designers or contractors or architects full access to all of my catalogs,” she said. “They can get a discount on whatever they chose, and if they want to, I would love to collaborate with them.”

“I’m trying to create something unique here. I am never going to compete with the big retailers, and I don’t want to,” she said. “But if someone buys a piece of furniture from them and doesn’t know what else to do, come on in and get inspired.

“That would make me happy,” she said.

AT A GLANCE

Amy Dutton Home

Owner: Amy Dutton

Address: 7 Walker St., Kittery, Maine

Phone: (207) 703-0696

E-mail: amy@amyduttonhome.com

Hours: Tuesdays and Saturdays, 10 a.m. to 7 p.m., by appointment and by chance.

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