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In the News: Top 5 Remodelista Posts of the Week
Remodelista went south of the border last week; here are the top five posts: Above: Julie noticed that for people weary of antlers on the wall, bullhorns are the antidote. She spotted both faux and...
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Beach House by Martin Gomez Arquitectos
Argentinian architect Martin Gomez Arquitectos, who specializes in beach houses in Uruguay and Argentina, is "obsessed with contextualizing his works within the landscape," he says. This single-story...
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A Last-Minute Party for the Fourth of July
Necessary ingredients for a successful last-minute Fourth of July party: Invite too many people (and tell them of course bring your children). Chill too many beers, and serve too many of my...
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The War of the Roses: Fighting the Enemy with Deer Spray
All over Mill Valley, other people's roses are blooming. Armloads of pink and white and red flowers are flourishing my friends' houses, despite dangling at the mouth level of the neighborhood deer. But...
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Plant Belles: Wire Supports for the Well Tamed Garden
Plant Belles, made in Devon, are intricate or plain. Best described as "rusty wire work for the garden," the plant supports are made either from steel wire which rusts naturally, or galvanized if that...
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Flower Arranging 101: Learning to Make a Flower Crown Befitting a Faerie Queen
Today is my birthday, and if there's one day a year when one should be permitted to parade around like a faerie queen, I'd say a birthday is the one. But let's not discriminate. A flower crown fits in...
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Magic Trick: How To Make Your Hydrangea Change Color
I'm not saying blue hydrangeas are necessarily better than pink ones. It's just that the particular color is so rare—"hydrangea blue" is not a hue that belongs to any other plant or any other anything...
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The Perfect Picnic Table
In a perfect world, furniture would fold up so you could store it away, flat packed, when you don't need it. Like those extra chairs you have sitting awkwardly against the wall, waiting around on the...
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10 Easy Pieces: Picnic Blankets
After you have located your perfect picnic spot, you'll need a blanket to serve triple duty as chair, table, and decor. Here's a round up of our favorites. Above: The New Domestic Striped Picnic...
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DIY: Raspberry Sparkler for the Fourth of July
When I was growing up, the Fourth of July was one of my favorite holidays. This was undoubtedly related to the fact that it fell close enough to my birthday that my family's celebrations usually...
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She Had Us at Picnic: A Summer Baby Shower
"A wonderful spread, fabulous friends, sunshine, great conversation, and some lounging on blankets is obviously the recipe for bringing on labor," says Dee Purdy of She Had Us At Hello. She should...
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12 Tips for a Perfect (and Easy) Barbecue in a Public Park
If there was one thing missing from my life in New York for the past three summers, it was easy access to a grill. On hot summer nights the smells wafting from our neighbors' grills would taunt me as I...
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10 Favorites: Picket Fences That Remind Us Why We Love Summer Cottages
As a young girl in China, my mother’s American Dream included John Wayne and a white picket fence. She never did get John Wayne or the white picket fence, but she’s not complaining. She and my father...
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Shopper's Diary: Picnic Supplies from This is Paper
For the past couple of years, the online magazine This Is Paper has been one of our favorite daily reads, so when founders Alexander Zakharov and Zuzanna Gasior launched their own shop we took note....
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Summer Berries: How to Pick Your Own Like A Pro
Fists full of berries must be one of the chief joys of summer. Eating a berry picked directly from the source and warmed in the hot summer sun comes as close to perfection as I can imagine. Picking...
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Live Wall Trophies at a Patriot's Post Office
Postmaster General take note: If every post office were this appealing, we might see an increase in people sending parcels by post. Located on the premises of the reimagined Marin Country Mart (a...
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A New Catskills Getaway, Croquet Included
Hammocks, bicycles, a croquet lawn, and a pool (with inner tubes): you'll find all of these at The Graham & Co. in the Catskills. What you won't find is a TV on the premises. The Graham & Co....
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The Marlowe Lunch Bag: Peg and Awl
I have a weird thing for lunch bags. I think it comes from my general fondness for anything with one specific and practical purpose. And perhaps also from my fondness for lunch, but that's another...
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DIY: Wild Mushrooms on Toast, from Allan Jenkins
London food editor Allan Jenkins forages for wild mushrooms at his summer house in Denmark, with his wife Henriette. Here's what they do with them after they get them back to the kitchen: (N.B.: When...
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5 Favorites: Portable Coolers
I suffer from picnic vanity. The practical red- or blue-sided coolers that I happily bring to kid's sporting events or tuck in the back of my car full of refrigerated treats for a weekend getaway are...
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