Tour Film and TV Set Stylist Danielle Filosa's Sustainable 1970s Maine Home

Living daily life in a 1970s’ movie set may not be a relaxing environment for everyone, but for Danielle Filosa it’s just a way of modern life. The film and TV set stylist and owner of vintage and antique home decor shop Filosaphy Home spends her time in a beautiful, Craftsman-style cabin surrounded by aged, perfectly procured pieces that she began collecting at age 14. But even before she moved into her New Harbor dream home, the cozy abode was built decades earlier by a student of sustainable design way ahead of his time.

“This house was built in 1977 by a wonderful man named Peter Kanis," Danielle says. "At the time, he was living in upstate New York and saw an advertisement on the cover of the newspaper to build a home for himself sustainably in Maine." After moving to Maine and becoming a Shelter Institute student, he completed the energy-efficient, sustainable home in 1979.

And after several decades of ownership, Peter listed the home for sale. “It was a pretty big deal for me to buy,” she says, adding once she and Peter met "it was almost like a passing of a torch.”

Danielle's decades-long roster of vintage collections were somehow destined for the space. "For me, the house in itself is a piece of art," she says. "It felt like I had been here before in a weird way, but also that it had its own soul to it. So I think it was really important from the get-go to not really do anything to [the house] and just keep it how it is [and] add my things to it."