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Trending on Remodelista: Best of Summer

Julie and the Remodelista editors spent the week picking favorites. Here's the best of summer design: Above: Christine visits The Ultimate Indoor-Outdoor House, where ceiling fans, an outdoor...

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Current Obsessions: California Curb Appeal

Here's a look at what we loved this week. Above: Designer Wendy Bellissimo's California home flaunts enviable curb appeal, Labradors included.  Five compact patios for small-space dwellers.  Above: Our...

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Table of Contents: Landscape Luxe

We're luxuriating in late-summer landscapes. Join for a week of classical garden urns, knot gardens, and insider tips from Sissinghurst Castle: Above: For more of this grand sprawl of a garden, see...

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Garden Designer Visit: Tom Stuart-Smith at Grendon Court

When Kate and Mark Edwards returned from Hong Kong to move into his mother's house in England and modernize its garden, they asked around for a landscape designer. A family friend had a son in the...

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Handblown Glass: Dome Terrariums from Campo de' Fiori

Although the company is based in the Berkshires in Massachusetts, Campo de' Fiori specializes in mossy, aged terra cotta pots with a decidedly foreign flavor. (In fact, owners Robin Norris and Barbara...

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10 Garden Ideas to Steal from Vita Sackville-West at Sissinghurst Castle

There are few gardens that say "English" more than Sissinghurst Castle in Kent, which was purchased in the 1930s by the newly married Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson. They loved it for its...

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10 Easy Pieces: Amphora Rainwater Urns

An amphora goes with everything. The clay jar's graceful, classical curves have been a go-to shape for stylish storage vessels since the Bronze Age. Lately we see modern interpretations we like, to use...

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The Souk Look: Boho Modern Outdoor Fabrics from Madeline Weinrib

Ever since designer Madeline Weinrib created her first collection of cotton rugs nearly 20 years ago for ABC Carpet & Home (the sprawling six-story New York City housewares store founded by her...

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Garden Visit: Julie's Soothing Green and White Palette in Cape Town

The home that Julie Alexander-Lillie shares with her husband and two daughters in the suburb of Bergvliet, Cape Town, is surrounded by a generous garden whose soothing green and white palette is...

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My Marijuana Plant: Best Apps and Growing Tips

It turns out that my growing a perky little marijuana plant in my garden has titillated my friends and neighbors to an extraordinary degree. Everybody wanted to have a look at Cutie. I haven’t heard so...

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DIY: Pergola Kit, Canopy Included

Turn a patio into a pavilion with a freestanding German-made pergola you assemble yourself (retractable canopy included): Above: Fully assembled, a square 9.5-foot Pergola Frame And Roof stands...

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Landscape of Restraint: Classic European Formality for Spray Farm in Australia

Australia-based garden designer Paul Bangay, known for his ability to create a classic European formality in even the driest of climates, imposed symmetry, parterres, and precisely clipped hedges on...

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Hardscaping 101: Limestone Pavers

When the poet W. H. Auden tried to imagine paradise, he wrote, "What I see is a limestone landscape." So do we. Or at least a limestone terrace: As a building material, limestone is both universal and...

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The Bell Jar: Terra Cotta Garden Cloches

From garden planter specialists Campo de' Fiori, purveyors of the aged and the mossy: terra cotta garden cloches to protect tender seedlings from the effects of wind, frost, and snow: Above: Aged Bells...

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Outbuilding of the Week: Cabin in the Woods by Bernd Riegger Architektur

Call it library style. A small open-air hut built for a children's outdoor education program has a facade of empty bookshelves, designed to provide both shelter and display space for...

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Shopper's Diary: Specimen Trees and Special Shrubs from Solitair Nursery in...

Let's say that you are the potentate of a small European nation. You are a benevolent ruler but somewhat impatient. You gaze out a palace window and notice the royal grounds are barren and extremely...

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Trending on Remodelista: Luxe Minimalism

Sometimes the most luxurious thing you can do is restrain yourself. This week Julie and the Remodelista editors parsed the language of paring down. They discovered decadent simplicity: Above: Izabella...

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Current Obsessions: Fall Ahead

Read on to see what we loved this week:  Above: We're admiring small but impressive backyard improvements made by Dana Miller of HouseTweaking.  2015 fall foliage map.  Tag your houseplant photos on...

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Table of Contents: Living with Plants

Where's your sunniest windowsill? We're starting to think about keeping our potted plants happy all winter. Join us for tips: the best grow lights, indoor trellises, and evidence that maximalism trumps...

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Still Life with Plants: An Art Collector in a Refurbished London Flat

So much for minimalism. A 3,500-square-foot London flat recently renovated for an art collector by 6a Architects is also home to dozens (hundreds?) of house plants, crammed into pots and planters in...

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