10 Easy Pieces: Tabletop Christmas Trees
Not everybody has room for a monster Christmas tree. We've rounded up 10 tiny live or fresh-cut trees and topiaries, just right for a tabletop or front stoop (including some you can plant in the garden...
View ArticleRemodelista SF Market Preview: Children's Haul
Calling all Bay Area readers: This weekend at the Remodelista Holiday Market in San Francisco, 40-plus vendors will be offering everything from small-batch furniture and tabletop designs to fashion...
View ArticleShopper's Diary: Garden Apothecary in Half Moon Bay, CA
Nearly everything Jennifer Lee Segale sells in her Garden Apothecary shop in Half Moon Bay, California is grown locally or made by hand. This includes her all-natural line of skin and beauty products:...
View ArticleDIY on a Budget: A Silvery Holiday Wreath for $20
When I set out to make a wreath that could hold its own for the whole holiday season, my first thought was to forage. I imagined twists of grapevines and tangles of bittersweet woven into an elaborate...
View ArticleGlass Houses: A Magical Belgian Bed and Breakfast, $170 a Night
Belgian architect Bruno Erpicum transformed a small stone outbuilding, creating a glass-walled, one-bedroom bed and breakfast in the Belgian countryside. Maison Roly rents for $170 a night (also...
View ArticleShopper's Diary: Christmas in Stockholm at Zetas Tradgard
Consider it Ground Zero for Scandinavian Christmas decor. Every year Zetas Tradgard owners Richard and Victoria Skoglund transform the Stockholm garden shop into "a green, glittering room" for the...
View ArticleHardscaping 101: Holiday Lighting Safety Tips
Devise plan for festive holiday lights, check. Unearth box of tangled mass of string lights from closet, check. Test outdoor outlet GFCI to be sure still working. What? I didn't know I had to do...
View ArticleGift Guide 2015: 10 Stylish Gifts Under $100 for a Gardener
Whether outfitting a potting shed, a work bag, or one's self, a well-made tool or accessory lifts a gardener's spirits in cold weather. For the gardener on your holiday shopping list, here are stylish...
View ArticleComing to SF: The Remodelista Holiday Market Opens Tomorrow
San Francisco, we hope to see you this weekend at our annual Remodelista Holiday Market! It's this Saturday and Sunday—yes, we've doubled our days—and 45 of our favorite California maker-designers and...
View ArticleTrending on Remodelista: The Cocktail Hour
The Remodelista editors kicked off the holiday cocktail season with a round of relaxed parties this week. They dropped in on a glamorous London kitchen (chandelier included) and shopped for holiday...
View ArticleTools of the Trade: Copper Garden Tools from Grafa
We're coveting a new collection of sturdy copper gardening tools that are becoming staples in many of our favorite garden shops (as well as at this year's Chelsea Flower Show). Here's the story behind...
View ArticleCurrent Obsessions: SF Market
Are you in San Francisco this weekend? If so, come see us for two days this weekend at our Remodelista Market at Heath Ceramics in the Mission. We'll be there from 10 am to 5 pm today and from 11 am to...
View ArticleTop 5 in Garden News: Bees Have Help, a Zero-Waste Town, and Climate Change...
This week in the world of gardening, climate change threatens the staple crops of Provence, GOOD magazine visits an almost zero-waste town in Japan, and bees get all the pollinator credit—but they...
View ArticleTable of Contents: Holidays Abroad
We're celebrating the holiday season this week with visits to gardens and greenhouses around the world. Join us: Above: Join us on our Hike of the Week: A Winter Wonderland in Maine. Monday Above: This...
View ArticleIn Sweden, a Self-Sustaining Farmhouse for Year Round Growing
Cold weather never seems to stop the Swedes. A case in point: Uppgrenna Naturhus, a conference space, spa, and cafe enveloped in a massive, modern greenhouse. Located in Sweden's southern half between...
View ArticleDIY: A Tiny Tabletop Forest of Sprouted Acorns
Here's an entirely different sort of holiday tree: an oak sapling sprouted from a foraged acorn. We spotted the clever idea via Swedish stylist Marie Delice Karlsson's blog Min Lilla Veranda, where a...
View ArticleTrend Alert: 13 Beautiful Blooming Bulbs, Scandi Edition
Nothing is more luxurious than spring flowers blooming in winter. And no one understands this better than Scandinavian gardeners, who fill their rooms with fragrant blooming bulbs—including hyacinths...
View Article10 Easy Pieces: Garlands and Boughs to Deck Halls
Maybe you do it for the scent of piney, aromatic evergreens. Or because you want to create a winter woodland indoors. Your motive is your business. We agree with the impulse. There's nothing more...
View ArticleRoman Holiday: The 24-Hour Florists of Italy
Says photographer Paolo Fusco: "Hardly anything is open 24 hours in Rome: a few bars, a few stores, self service gas stations and flower kiosks, a lot of flower kiosks. You can find them everywhere in...
View ArticleBefore & After: A Modern Townhouse Garden in Brooklyn
Does this sound familiar? A couple buy and remodel a Brooklyn townhouse, then look out through their new floor-to-ceiling windows and, noticing the wreck of a garden, request a budget-friendly...
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