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...
View ArticleCurrent 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...
View ArticleTable 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...
View ArticleGarden 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...
View ArticleHandblown 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...
View Article10 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...
View Article10 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleGarden 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...
View ArticleMy 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...
View ArticleDIY: 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...
View ArticleLandscape 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...
View ArticleHardscaping 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleOutbuilding 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...
View ArticleShopper'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...
View ArticleTrending 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...
View ArticleCurrent 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...
View ArticleTable 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...
View ArticleStill 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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