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Steal This Look: A Silvery Blue Palette in Austin, TX
We love this sophisticated small home from Remodelista + Gardenista Architect/Designer Directory members Alterstudio Architecture, based in Austin. Architects Tim Whitehill and Kevin Alter shed some...
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Stylish Storage: A Powder Coated Tool Rack
Spotted via Williams-Sonoma Agrarian, a steel tool rack capable of holding 33 pounds. That's a lot of trowel: Above: A Steel Tool Rack powder coated in hunter green is suitable for a potting shed or...
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Architectural Element: 7 Retractable Garage Doors
Why have we never taken a moment to consider the beauty of the mechanism that lifts the separate panels of an overhead garage door? There's really no faster—or elegant—way to eliminate the standoff...
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A Garage Turned Restaurant in Tasmania
In Tasmania, a restaurant called Garagistes offers a pitch-perfect interpretation of its namesake. The name Garagistes is a reference to the space's former life as a commercial garage, a design...
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Brit Style: The Garden With (Almost) No Flowers
We all know that structure is good for us, like fiber in the diet. But it is flowers that most people want. The late, iconic British interior designer David Hicks, whose signature look was "simplicity...
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10 Easy Pieces: Garage Storage Units
Why shouldn't storage units for the garage be among the most stylish accessories you buy for your home? Here are ten of our favorite options to consider for your garage, shed, or any place that needs...
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Hotel Visit: El Albergue, En Route to Machu Pichu
There are three ways to reach Machu Picchu: by hiking the Inca Trail hike, flying in by helicopter, or most commonly, by train. The train leaves only from the town of Ollantayatambo, making the tiny...
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Garage Envy: 10 Sleekly Styled Garages
We love a good garage, and to us, a good garage is at home with the architecture of the house around it. We spotted ten garage facades worth appreciating, from members of the Remodelista + Gardenista...
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Shopper's Diary: Sarah Winward's Floral Design Studio in Salt Lake City
In the creation myths of some of this country's most celebrated entrepreneurs, the self-starting heroes begin their journey within the humble four walls of the family garage. Rock bands, tech...
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Hardscaping 101: Garage Flooring
Looked at your garage floor lately? Concrete takes a beating and might benefit from a covering to keep it looking good and help it last longer (not to mention taking on new uses, such as a sport court...
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10 Favorites: Indoor Bicycle Storage
Not everybody has a garage. City dwellers know the challenge of where to park the bicycle indoors; here's a roundup of ideas. For an excellent selection of storage racks, see the New York Times...
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Shopper's Diary: Lila B. Design at Stable Café in SF's Mission District
When San Francisco floral designer Baylor Chapman, owner of Lila B. Design, decided to change locations in the downtown Mission District a few months ago, all she had to do was walk a few steps from...
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Outbuilding of the Week: Rethinking the Pre-Fab Utility Shed
At first glance, we thought that this meticulously detailed and carefully crafted building standing alone on a hill in the landscape might be a bijoux guesthouse or even a small chapel. Imagine our...
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Design Sleuth: Gardener's Work Table at Lila B. Design
Secretly I believe all furniture should be on wheels—especially worktables under which you're forever sweeping or vacuuming or hosing. So it was inevitable that I would fall in love at sight with San...
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Ask the Expert: Garden Friendly De-Icing Techniques
Though I'm not one to complain about a beautiful snow fall, I'll concede that the slippery mess that a blizzard leaves behind can make for a treacherous morning commute. As I've navigated the streets...
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The Week in Review: Patiently Awaiting Spring
With the cold months coming to an end, we are looking forward to the purge that often coincides with warmer temperatures. This week we shared some of our favorite garage storage and organization...
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Carolyn Murphy's Painting Studio—in the Garage
Paul Gauguin may have had to flee France for Tahiti to find his painter's paradise, but Carolyn Murphy need only retreat to her own garage. The model and actress—yes, you've seen her, in addition to...
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Heat, Rinse, Repeat: A Sauna Hut in Sweden
In Scandinavia, the ritual of sauna and bathing is a national pastime—a highly social and communal one, we might add. How could it not be? Sitting together intimately in close quarters, conversing...
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Shopper's Diary: Behind the Scenes at Winston Flowers in Boston
It all began with a pushcart. Since their first days wheeling flowers up and down Boston's fashionable Newbury Street in 1944, Robert Winston and his son, Maynard, cultivated a business based on rare...
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A Japanese-Inspired Ranch in New Mexico
Rick Joy, the under-the-radar architect of the American West, is the design visionary behind Lone Mountain Ranch, a slice of modernism in the New Mexico desert. Owners Robert and Mary Lloyd Estrin...
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