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Hardscaping 101: Clay Roof Tiles
I still remember the first time I saw roofs made of red clay tiles. I was visiting my grandmother in Santa Monica one hot summer, and I was enchanted by the city’s combination of terra-cotta roofs,...
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Your First Garden: What You Need to Know Before You Plant a Tree or Shrub
We have a beautiful dogwood in our front yard. Like the other few plants on our property that are actually thriving, this tree was here long before we arrived—and long before I started gardening (or...
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Trending on Remodelista: Natural Beauty, Indoor Edition
With daylight dwindling, we’re all starting to clock more hours indoors. Fortunately, Remodelista has some fresh ideas for bringing the great outdoors in. Above: A bright idea from Julie: beautiful...
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Domestic Dispatches: My Fireplace Remodel, No Smoke Involved
There are many reasons I married my husband: for his salsa recipe, ability to make the modem thing work, and taste in books (if he likes an Alan Furst, so will I). But perhaps his greatest hidden...
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Landscape Architect Visit: Whimsy & Delight in a Walled Multi-Level Garden...
This is simply one of the most joyful gardens we’ve ever seen. More than 20 years ago, Anna and Allan Joyce (a landscape architect and architect, respectively) decided to build their family home on a...
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Putting the Garden to Bed: Your Autumn Check List
Leaves are falling. Days are shrinking, nights are stretching. Autumn is not the end of gardening, but a good time to make plans, prepare, and put to bed. And perhaps grow a salad or three. Read on for...
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Gardening 101: Pomegranate
Pomegranate, Punica granatum Who else feels like wearing a white toga and donning a laurel leaf crown while munching on a pomegranate? (Just me? Oh, well.) Let me explain. The pomegranate goes back to...
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DIY: How to Clean and Care for Garden Pruners
Like most things in your garden, tools need a little loving care to keep them happy. Here are a few easy tips for cleaning and caring for your pruners. Photography by Erin Boyle for Gardenista. Above:...
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Trending on Remodelista: City or Country—Which Would You Choose?
The perennial question: Which is better? Living in a bustling city or the tranquil country? Remodelista found evidence to support both sides this week. In the Country Above: One of the beautiful rooms...
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A Vital Vine: 11 Best Varieties of Ivy
The yearbook at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, is called The Ivy, named after the ivy-covered buildings on the quadrangle. When I arrived there for my junior year, the fustian towers had...
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Moving to the Country: A City Girl Finds Hope and Harvest at Meadowburn Farm
We first visited Meadowburn Farm four years ago, at the height of summer. My youngest daughter, Eta, was in my arms, just six months old, and my eldest daughter, Lowe, was three at the time. We were...
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Everything You Need to Know About Bulbs and Tubers
Without bulbs and tubers there would be no springtime. Tulips, daffodils, hyacinths, crocuses, squill, snowdrops, and muscari are waking up beneath the crusty grim earth as I type, preparing to break...
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Object of Desire: A Folding Canvas Rocking Chair from Japan
To be filed under “modern classics.” From Japan, a folding canvas rocking chair remains as covetable as in 1958, when designer Takashi Nii created it. A permanent resident of the Museum of Modern Art...
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Lessons Learned: The Two Fatal Mistakes I Made with My Fiddle Leaf Fig Tree
I bought my first fiddle leaf fig tree at Home Depot more than five years ago, when my husband and I moved into our first (and current) house. After years of living in a small, light-challenged...
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Trending on Remodelista: Going Dark
A confluence of events this week has Remodelista investigating darker interior colors: Halloween tomorrow and end of daylight savings on Sunday. Here are some highlights: Above: This Dream Dressing...
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The Well-Kept Woodpile: 10 Tips to Stack and Care for Firewood Outdoors
In publishing, books on firewood and building fires have been huge hits the past few years, including Lars Mytting’s Norwegian Wood, Daniel Hume’s The Art of Fire, and Sally Coulthard’s The Little Book...
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The Return of Victory Gardens: What to Grow to Start Your Own
Did you know that during both World Wars, the government actually encouraged and educated people on how to garden, from tilling soil and sowing seeds to harvesting and preserving crops, so that they...
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Gardening 101: Jade Plant
Jade Plant, Crassula ovata: “Money Tree” I once heard a noted plantsman declare that you should never give up on a plant until you had managed to kill it three times. With the jade plant, however, it...
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Fall Gardening: Can You Stop Watering Now? (And 5 Other Burning Questions)
Ah, fall: when cozy sweaters come out, the air crisps up, a kaleidoscope of colorful leaves decorate sidewalks, and it’s a struggle to decide which pumpkin-flavored drink to buy at the local coffee...
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Designer Visit: A Gray and Green Garden at Tiger Glen
When the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY built a new wing, architect Pei Cobb Freed & Partners was hired to expand on the classic I.M. Pei design from 1973. A...
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