The light changes. You notice one morning that the sun is hitting the living floor in a new spot. It's a painterly time of year: moody purples look gray and grays are almost black, and we're drawn to Flemish landscapes where the horizon dissolves into a smudge.
This week we'll experiment with painting facades black. We'll turn flowers into a still life for your tabletop. And we'll visit a fairytale Belgian farmhouse garden rescued from ruin. Join us:
Above: Photograph by Sophia Moreno-Bunge for Gardenista.
Monday
Above: You'd never know it now, but the fairytale farmhouse and garden in Belgium in this week's Before and After was run down and sad not so long ago.
Above: Kendra gets to the heart of Belgian endive and other chicories in this week's Field Guide. Join her for the salad course.
Tuesday
Above: Who said moody, dark, high-peaked garden buildings are the sole province of a Belgian landscape? Kendra tours the black barns of Britain in this week's Garden Visit.
Above: Meredith goes sleuthing for the best terra cotta pots in this week's 10 Easy Pieces.
Wednesday
Michelle has come up with 10 Ideas to steal from gardens in Belgium (No 1: who needs flowers?) in this week's installment of Garden Ideas to Steal. Photograph by Bart Kiggen.
Above: Sophia explains the principles behind creating a painterly floral arrangement and gives step-by-step instructions for making your own still life with flowers in this week's DIY. Photograph by Sophia Moreno-Bunge for Gardenista.
Thursday
Above: Would you like to live in a minimalist greenhouse? Talk to Alexa; she's touring one in this week's Architect Visit.
Above: Concrete, you most versatile of materials in the garden. Last week we shopped for concrete outdoor furniture and admired 10 Genius Garden Hacks With Concrete Blocks. In this week's Hardscaping 101, Janet's on the case—she tells us everything we need to know about installing concrete pavers in a garden.
Friday
Above: Our Outbuilding of the Week is an abandoned trailer cleverly repurposed into a garden retreat for a family in Ghent, Belgium.
Above: Alpine strawberries are in season in Harlem. Cookbook author and blogger Marie Viljoen (of 66 Square Feet) has some thoughts for us on how to eat them, in this week's Garden-to-Table Recipe.
Wondering what those industrious editors at Remodelista are up to this week? See all their posts about moody violet interiors in Belgian Masters.
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