Trending on Remodelista: 5 Summer-to-Fall Design Ideas to Steal

This week the Remodelista editors made a note of their best easy design ideas from summerhouses—and made plans to transplant them come autumn. Join them.

Homemade Dish Soap

Above: Turns out it’s easy and fun to make homemade dish soap. (Plus you can customize your concoction with the scent and container of your choice.) Photograph by Justine Hand.

See step-by-step instructions in DIY: Homemade Dish Soap.

Under $200: Bedside Sconce

Above: The Anglepoise Type 75 Sconce is designed Sir Kenneth Grange and available in Brushed Aluminum, Jet Black, and Alpine White; $155 at Design Within Reach.

Piano Key Fence

Above: The distance between slats on a four-foot fence gradually increases to let in light (at left) without revealing the existence of a parking court (at right) at a beach house on the eastern tip of Long Island. Photograph by Scott Frances, courtesy of T. W. Ryan Architecture.

Punctuated with clumps of tall perennial grasses, a fence with narrow vertical slats adds style as well as privacy. See more design ideas at A Seventies-Era ‘Builder’s Special’ Reimagined in Montauk.

Folding Deck Chair

Above: How quickly can the folding wood beach chair adapt to become a folding wood deck chair? Overnight.

Brush off the sand and bring folding chairs into the fold this fall. See our favorites at High/Low: The Folding Wood Beach Chair.

Roller Shades

Above: Simple roller shades in A Colonial House in Bellport with Uncommon Style from French Designer C. S. Valentin. Photograph by Jonathan Hokklo.