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A Miracle Treatment to Make Your Feet Feel Like They Checked Into a Spa
Whether you've been pounding the city pavement to chase after cherry blossoms or crouching in the garden to harvest your garlic scapes, your feet have been doing most of the work. Reward them....
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Cheat Sheet: How to Keep Vegetables Fresh Longer
Some people shop impulsively for shoes. I shop impulsively for vegetables. I wander through the Union Square Greenmarket at lunchtime and find myself stuffing jewel-toned beets and carrots into my tote...
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Dezeen: An Office and a Watch Store
If Remodelista and Gardenista HQ had a shop where we sold all of our favorite home ware and gardening goods (a recurring fantasy in these parts), it would look just like this. Designer Phillipe Malouin...
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Modern Potpourri: The Irresistible Fragrance of a Rotten Pot
The term "potpourri" might evoke an image of plastic bags full of wood chips, cinnamon sticks, and sliced persimmons—their color pumped up with dye and drenched in synthetic fragrance. That kind of...
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Want a Raise? 11 Houseplants That Could Help Your Career
I need a raise. You need a raise. Who doesn't need more money? According to researchers, one fast track to success is putting a green plant on your desk. Having office plants can make you nearly 50...
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DIY: Office Flowers With a Scent Even Co-Workers Will Love
Keeping fragrant flowers in a communal office can be tricky. For some of us, it's a treat to have a fresh smelling arrangement to clear the air. But others might not be so keen on it. One way to keep...
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10 Easy Pieces: Desktop Humidifiers
Flyaway hair, the bane of winter, is upon us. A large problem formerly known as my bangs is standing on end, crackling with electricity, as I type. How can we be expected to work under these...
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Getting Creative with Plants at Emmadime's New Studio
The minute she laid eyes on the sun-lit, artist loft in Oakland, blogger-knitter-designer Emma Roberston, a recent transplant from LA, knew she'd found a new home for her business, Emmadime. With...
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7 Ways to Organize and Green Your Office Simultaneously
Urban gardening meets office organization. Here are seven containers that effortlessly bring plant life (office plants help us work smarter - Michelle explains why) and office organization into your...
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DIY: A Potent Potpourri With Grapefruit, Rosemary, and Vanilla
Feeling cooped up after the holidays? Feel refreshed instead with this bright, citrus-y stovetop potpourri that does double duty by humidifying the air and helping it to smell good. Photographs by Erin...
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Confessions of a Repentant Plant Assassin: 6 Ways to Revive Neglected...
I’ve killed more houseplants than I’d like to admit. Some of that is due to having a job that requires me to travel two weeks of every month, and the other part is about not having the patience to...
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Ask the Expert: 10 Tips for Office Plants, from The Sill
Your desk needs a houseplant. So does mine. But the last thing we need is to show up at the office one morning, in the middle of a dreary January, to find the little fellow's leaves have shriveled and...
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DIY: A Desktop Zen Garden
Sometimes working in a creative field can feel like living in a Tom Cruise spy film. Like when you open an email from your editor inquiring if you might be willing to create a desktop Zen garden of the...
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Plants on the Job: A Cautionary Tale
Not all office plants get the love and attention they deserve. When San Francisco-based photographer Kirk Crippens began work on Foreclosure, USA—an examination of the effects of the foreclosure...
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Best in Show: Office and Work Studio Greenery
Does your office feel a little too Dilbert? Here's a quick fix: banish institutional cubicle culture with a little greenery (a plant or two will improve air quality too). Here's some inspiration,...
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DIY: A Living Wall for the Office, Lazy Person's Edition
Here's a confession of sorts: I don't really like living plant walls. They make a space feel claustrophobic. Even spooky. And that's before I think about the work of maintaining a thriving tropical...
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Salad Days: Grow Your Own, at Work
The perfect place to grow food crops is where it’s dry, sunny, and 68 degrees all year round. California? The Algarve? Actually, it’s somewhere closer to home—or in this case, work. According to Dutch...
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Shopper's Diary: No. Six Depot Roasters in the Berkshires
Housed in a former train station dating to 1834—the oldest in the Berkshires—No. Six Depot café and coffee roasters in West Stockbridge, MA imports coffee beans from around the world from small farms...
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Bring a Plant to Work—and Sit on It
Earlier today we admired the way Dutch artist Nienke Sybrandy urges us to grow a garden in the office (why not sow lettuce in your desk?). We forgot to mention...we're also charmed by Sybrandy's...
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Garden-to-Table Recipe: New Year's Cleanse
It's January and the season of cleanses and detoxes is upon us. Full disclosure: I don't really go in for the idea of cleanses. I'm far too devoted to cheese and chocolate to imagine voluntarily giving...
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