While we're under the spell of our garden year round, there's something particularly enchanting about the wild darkness that we celebrate this month. (As Halloween is Michelle's favorite holiday, we start decorating early.) This week, we call on the spirits, and summon the mystical and the pagan:
Above: Photograph by Sophia Moreno-Bunge from our recent post, Uli Lorimer, Native Plant Whisperer.
Monday
Above: Michelle visits a tiny freestanding charred-wood bedroom addition (price tag $45,000) that's a mini mirror of the cottage next door in this week's Architect Visit. Photograph via NeM Architectes.
Above: Kendra explains the difference between beech and hornbeam in this week's Field Guide. Photograph by Kendra Wilson.
Tuesday
Above: A Steal This Look involving the Salem witch trials? Well, we did promise Dark Shadows. Meredith finds the somber beauty of this colonial facade translates well beyond the historical town.
Above: Superstition didn't stop Barbara from heading straight to Brooklyn Heights (a neighborhood that takes Halloween very, very seriously) in search of seasonal Curb Appeal.
Wednesday
Above: Our love of air plants is undying. Sophia shares her latest arrangement in this week's Entertaining & Arrangements. In the meantime, see Gardening 101: How to Water an Air Plant, and flex your botany know-how with Air Plants 101: How to ID a Tillandsia.
Thursday
Above: It's a monster bash at Meredith's, and you're invited for this week's Dinner Party Project, featuring readers' recipes and tabletop decor for your next Halloween party.
Friday
Above: Cheryl retreats to the mystical bohemian enclave of Southern California's Topanga Canyon, in this far-out Outbuilding of the Week.
Want more magic? Halloween mischief continues on Remodelista this week.
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