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10 Easy Pieces: Wooden Storm Doors
As winter approaches and the storm season sets in, it’s time to install or upgrade your front door’s storm glass. Most readily available storm doors come in cheaper aluminum, PVC, or fiberglass, but...
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11 Garden Ideas to Steal from Hipster Homesteaders
Here’s to all the hipsteaders who’ve gone back to the land to farm (and post on their Instagram accounts), as well as to all seasonal settlers and weekend escapees who’ve left city life behind...
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Gardening 101: Morning Glory
Morning Glory, Ipomoea, “Back-to-School Vine” Morning glory, with its heart-shaped leaves and delicate trumpet-shaped blooms, is such a familiar plant that it is easy to forget how useful and stunning...
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Your First Garden: What You Need to Know About Raking Leaves
I don’t know why the volume of autumn leaves that fell onto our yard that first fall in our new home was such a surprise. We had moved to a town called Maplewood, after all—not to mention what had...
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Gardening 101: Oleander
Oleander, Nerium oleander “Oleander” rhymes with “I can’t stand her,” as anyone familiar with the lyrics of Steely Dan’s “My Old School” knows. Great rhyme, guys, and just so you know, I’ve been unable...
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Trending on Remodelista: 5 Design Ideas to Steal from Modern Homesteaders
Rustic elegance is on the Remodelista editors’ radar this week, as they visit modern homesteads to gather new ideas for showcasing old materials and vintage styles. Brick Backdrop Above: Photograph by...
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Homestead Act: A Family Trades City Life for a Farm on Martha’s Vineyard
A family of four escapes the city to live off the land on a homestead complete with cows, chickens, ducks, pigs, and an overflowing edible garden. This is a familiar fantasy—you may have imagined it,...
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Current Obsessions: The Hipster Homesteader
A new way to get your Christmas tree, a tree farm transformed, and more, on our radar this week. Above: Looking towards autumn. Photograph from Autumn Colors: A Fiery Fall Palette by Landscape Designer...
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9 Best Garden Design Trends for Fall 2018
What’s on the horizon for outdoor and indoor gardens for fall 2018 (and beyond)? Here are nine landscape, garden, and floral design ideas we’re admiring: British Petunias Above: Bred by Kerley & Co...
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5 Favorites: Rain Gauges
What’s in the weather forecast for this fall? Rain, we hope. Here in northern California we can’t get enough. How much water does your garden get? Whether you live in a wet or dry climate, it’s useful...
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Landscape Visit: Manicured—and Wild, on Australia’s Mornington Peninsula
When Melbourne, Australia-based landscape designer Ben Scott first saw a newly built farmhouse on a 20-acre property about an hour’s drive south from the city, there was no garden to speak of. The only...
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10 Easy Pieces: Pop-Up Outdoor Showers
An outdoor shower gets lonely in the winter. Pipes freeze, and by late November you start to wonder why you ever installed it in the first place. Enter the pop-up outdoor shower. Without a need for...
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The Ultimate Indoor-Outdoor House on 36 Acres in Coastal Maine
“There isn’t another site like this available anywhere near Portland, Maine,” said Russell Tyson of Whitten Architects, “and it’s the site that makes this house so unique.” He’s describing a...
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Gardening 101: Little Bluestem Grass
Little Bluestem Grass, Schizachyrium scoparium When I visit large gardens, I am in awe of their beauty—as well as the work that is required to make and keep them gorgeous. It makes me privately feel a...
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The Garden Decoder: What Happens When Edible Plants ‘Bolt’?
I once had a vegetable garden. It was small and cute (roughly four by six feet), slightly raised, and enclosed by four thin planks of wood. The best part? It had come with the house, and presumably,...
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10 Easy Pieces: Wooden Garden Shed Kits
Imagine how useful it would be to have a big, deep coat closet in your garden. For inspiration, consider Julie’s made-from-a-kit shed in Mill Valley, California (shown in the photo above). As you can...
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Now Trending: 11 Ingenious Ways Houseplants Can Make a Room Look Bigger
Houseplants may be the single most important element of interior design: when deployed effectively, they can add depth, height, and airiness to any room. Here are 10 ingenious ways (culled from our...
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Trending on Remodelista: Design Forecast for Fall 2018
The Remodelista editors spent the week uncovering the freshest new interior design trends for fall. Here are a few of their favorites: Mattress in a Box Above: Casper’s mattress selection includes...
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Current Obsessions: From the Editors’ Desk
An upcoming book signing and 10 more things to know about this weekend. Above: Today and tomorrow at Glasswing in Seattle: a fall plant sale, with discounts starting at 15 percent, select varieties up...
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Fall’s Most Fashionable Flowers: 8 Ways to Style a Surprising Design Darling
Move aside, fronds, grasses, and seedpods. Just when it looked as if wispy foliage had taken floral arrangements hostage for the season, we noticed something surprising: blowsy billows of hydrangeas....
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