Carisa Salerno is an antique dealer and self taught home designer. Carisa was born and raised in Midcoast Maine in the small village where her family has lived for ten generations.

In 2019 she started The Maine House Hunt, an Instagram page highlighting wonderful Maine homes on the real estate market. Since 2024 she has served on the Fellowship Committee at the Haystack Mountain School of Crafts and volunteers regularly at the campus on Deer Isle. She is also a board member and director of the Round Pond Schoolhouse Association, which preserves the historic Washington School’s