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Object of Desire: Japanese Folding Knife from Banshu Hamono
Interior designers (and self-proclaimed Japanophiles) Roman and Williams got their start in Hollywood, and still bring a set designer’s critical eye to every product they choose for both their online...
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The Design Skeptic: Do We Really Need to Plug In Outdoors?
(In her monthly column for the Wall Street Journal, Gardenista editor Michelle Slatalla tackles interior and exterior design challenges. In this installment, she wonders how important it really is to...
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10 Easy Pieces: Balcony Privacy Panels
Watching people pass by from the safety of your balcony is one of the great joys of urban life. But when people start watching you back, it’s less fun. The solution? Potted plants—and also a privacy...
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Garden Visit: A Fern-Filled Forest in Australia
Recently on Remodelista, Margot took us through the guesthouse of Jacky Winter Gardens, an artists’ residence and informal showroom for the work of partner artists. The cottage has undergone a...
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Gardening 101: Switchgrass
Switchgrass, Panicum virgatum: “Tall Panic Grass” If you are a resident of the East Coast, the much-lamented loss of North America’s tallgrass prairie may be a vague concept. It is almost impossible...
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Your First Garden: What You Need to Know Before You Plant Bulbs
I’ve always known in theory that if you plant spring-flowering bulbs (such as tulips, daffodils, crocuses, and alliums) you can fill your garden with successive waves of color for three months while...
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10 Easy Pieces: Bulb Planters
Squirrels make it look so easy. But digging a deep, narrow hole to plant bulbs can be a challenge. Bulb planting tools reduce the hard work by grabbing dirt in a cone when they are pushed into the...
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Garden of Eden: The Most Beautiful Spot in Brooklyn Happens to Be in an...
High levels of arsenic and lead in the soil, a decrepit factory building, a courtyard roofed over with half-rotted plywood and tarpaper, a courtyard paved in concrete—we’ve all heard this Brooklyn...
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Trending on Remodelista: 5 Design Ideas for an Autumn Palette
Golden hues, textured walls, and sink-into-comfort seating are just right for the cocooning season ahead. See five of the Remodelista editors’ favorite design ideas for an autumn palette: Paint...
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Current Obsessions: Autumn, Deconstructed
Catch us at Field + Supply tomorrow—and read on for what else is on our weekend calendars. Above: An autumn DIY from a tiny, artful luncheonette in the Pacific Northwest: see An Artful Botanical...
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Announcing Our New Guide to Garden Shed Design
A garden shed should be a sanctuary. Your safe space. At its most modest, a shed is the little building in the backyard, preferably covered with vines, where you can slip off on your own to hang your...
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Gardening 101: Coleus
Coleus: Plectranthus scutellarioides Is coleus a plant you have to learn to love? Garden trends ebb and flow—and bright, dramatically colored foliage can be an acquired taste. I used to dismiss these...
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10 Edible Garden Ideas to Steal from Detroit’s Favorite Foodie Farmers
“Last season, this was a bare plot,” says farmer Stephen Lamberti. “There was nothing here.” Thirteen months later, this half acre on Zingerman’s Cornman Farms is a splendorous green patch with a...
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10 Easy Pieces: Landscape Edging
Landscape edging is the paintbrush of garden designers—and one of their best-kept secrets. Just think: Where would a Roberto Burle Marx garden be without edging? A buried strip of metal or rubber...
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Now Trending: 9 Surprising Purple Palettes for a Garden
Purple has presence. It’s the color of courage on a military medal awarded for a soldier’s bravery. It was the color of power, on emperors’ royal robes in ancient Rome. And in the garden? Purple is the...
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10 Easy Pieces: Flower Bulbs for Forcing
Winter’s greatest luxury? Flowers in bloom. Forced bulb season is officially underway. To celebrate, we’ve rounded up 10 flowering bulbs—including snowy paperwhites, amaryllis, hyacinths, and tulips—to...
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The Garden Decoder: What Does It Mean to ‘Naturalize’ Bulbs?
You know how no one ever tells you the messy truth about pregnancy and childbirth? That’s also how I feel about gardening. No one ever explained to me how physically hard it can be or how weeds don’t...
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Object of Desire: How to Feed Hungry Birds, No Birdseed Required
This tweet just in, from the hungry birds in your garden: What’s for dinner? One answer they may not be expecting: apples. We’re admiring a Scandi-designed simple brass hook called the Apple Holder,...
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October To-Do: Plant Dwarf Iris, for Early Spring Flowers
In the dead of winter is there anything more uplifting and satisfying than the sight of the first spring bulbs poking up through the lawn or in a few pots? If you add the delicate dwarf Iris reticulata...
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Trending on Remodelista: Kitchens 101
This week the Remodelista editors explored trends in kitchen design (and collected tips for getting their own kitchens in order ahead of the holiday entertaining season). Here are five ideas to steal:...
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