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A Year-Round Barbecue for the Designer Set
Spotted on ArchiExpo: a Corten steel barbecue that's part weeknight stove, part art object. Above: The K60 Garden Fire & Barbecue from TOLE (The Outdoor Living Experience) was designed by iol...
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DIY: 7 Best Natural Mosquito Bite Remedies
I'm a romantic, and so at the risk of facing commenter-wrath, I'm going to say it: The season's first mosquito bite isn't such a bad thing. It's how you earn your summertime stripes, don't you think?...
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10 Easy Pieces: Black Balcony Box Planters
Black goes with everything. Here are 10 of our favorite black balcony planter boxes to hang over a railing, sit on a ledge, or tuck into a corner. For summer color, just add plants: Above: With a...
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Hardscaping 101: Ribbon Driveways
When I was growing up in Memphis, we lived for a while in a little brick 1920s bungalow. A very prolific pecan tree grew beside the garage, and each fall we would gather the nuts from the spot where my...
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DIY Summer: 9 Ideas for Rope Decor with a Castaway Vibe
Outdoors or in, rope lends a jaunty, Gilligan's Island air to the premises. We've rounded up nine castaway-cool DIY rope projects. Give one a try this weekend, Lovey: DIY Rope Hammock Above: After an...
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Recipe Roundup: 5 Favorite Summer Salads
Summer is a season of contradictions: so much delicious fresh food, so little desire to cook. For me, the perfect summer kitchen is one I barely see. Cold drinks and colder salads are the answer. Plus...
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Rehab Diary: From Garage to Tiny Cottage in LA, on a Budget
Fourteen years ago when Annette Gutierrez and her husband, Gustavo, bought their 1908 Craftsman house in Hollywood, it badly needed repairs. Or more. "Everyone urged us to tear the whole thing down,"...
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Trending on Remodelista: The Summer Kitchen
The Remodelista editors spent the week sleuthing for summer kitchen essentials, from old fashioned pest-repelling food covers to sherbet-colored tea towels woven in Lithuania: Above: Architects tell...
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Current Obsessions: Patio Living
Read on to see our latest obsessions. Above: We loved this tour of Earth Tu Face, a natural apothecary in Oakland, CA. Photograph by Ali Hartwell. What does the California drought mean for stone fruit...
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Table of Contents: Country House
We're heading out of town to spend as much of summer as possible in our favorite country gardens. Join us this week for our favorite glass hurricane candle holders, tips on growing tomatoes, and 10...
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Hydrangea Smackdown: Which Color is Better, Pink or Blue?
A few months ago when Michelle wrote about how to turn pink hydrangeas blue, the post's immediate success made me wonder if I was the only one who likes pink hydrangeas just the way they are. Then, a...
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World's Most Beautiful Porch Light
“The idea was a jelly jar,” NY-based designer Deborah Ehrlich told the New York Times. But this is no ordinary jelly jar light; the shade is hand blown Swedish crystal, the base is white glazed...
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10 Ideas to Steal from English Cottage Gardens
The best cottage gardens look like they planted themselves. They didn't, of course. But the design principles they follow are simple. The English invented the cottage garden, probably in the 1400s when...
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10 Easy Pieces: Glass Hurricane Lanterns, from High to Low
Hurricane lantern candle holders earned their name because their tall chimneys protect a flame from wind. Not sure if they could stand up to a real hurricane—but with their pleasing shapes we like to...
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The Cult of Cécile: A Parisian Ceramicist's Perfect Flower Vases
Paris-based ceramicist Cécile Deladier's delicate, hand-formed vases show off the charms of single stems—any flower, really, that you picked a minute ago from the garden. We love Deladier's work so...
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Best Tools: 10 Favorite Garden Forks
In the garden, long-handled forks bear great responsibility: It's their job to break up compacted soil, spread a layer of straw mulch around the roots of the roses, and aerate the compost. Buy a...
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Landscaping 101: Mulch
If mulch were a new invention, gardeners would tout it as a miracle. Spreading a thin layer of material on top of garden soil smothers weeds, prevents both erosion and compaction, and slows evaporation...
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Shopper's Diary: Natural Flower Dyes and Silk Scarves, from Cara Marie Piazza
As a florist and flower lover, I like to see flowers put to good use. The downside of working in the world of floral design is that there's a considerable amount of floral waste. Leftover flower scraps...
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Bloomsbury in Sussex: Garden Visit to Charleston Farmhouse
You don't have to be an admirer of the Bloomsbury Group to appreciate the allure of Charleston Farmhouse, the literary circle's outpost in East Sussex. On a late afternoon its garden shimmers for us:...
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Landscape Design: 10 Gardens Transformed by Raised Beds
Raised beds are a garden designer's secret weapon, and not just because they look good. A raised bed is a microclimate of fertile soil where flowers flourish and herbs and edibles co-exist peacefully...
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