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Hardscaping 101: Exterior Wooden Shutters
Outdoor shutters that actually work (as opposed to the faux variety) score high in both form and function. Traditionally used to insulate and ventilate a house, shutters also are useful when designing...
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Trend Alert: Collapsing Linen Bucket
During a recent shopping foray in Europe, the good people at Best Made, the purveyor of quality tools, stumbled on a cache of vintage canvas buckets. Commissioned in the 1950s by the French Army and...
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Outbuilding of the Week: Portugal's Casas Na Areia
Are you the kind of person who defines summer by the feel of sand between your toes? In Portugal, an hour south of Lisbon on the Sado River estuary, there's an unusual inn where you can put your feet...
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Safari-Style Camping in Colorado, Glam Bedding Included
It was on a Kenyan safari that the owners of Cresto Ranch in Cresto, a tiny town in southwestern Colorado, figured out a new use for their historic property: they'd pitch African-style canvas tents in...
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Trending on Remodelista: Summer Rentals
What's your vacation fantasy: ocean breeze or mountain air? Cottage or compound? Historic or modern? This week, the Remodelista editors visited some of the best summer rentals we've ever seen. (Want to...
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Current Obsessions: Going Abroad
In a few weeks, half the Gardenista team will be on vacation overseas. And the other half? We're traveling vicariously. Take a look at the destinations on our radar: Above: In Berlin? Think...
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Little Cargo Container in the Big Woods
A few years ago, a county parks department in Washington state sponsored a contest that sounded like something Amy Poehler would dream up on Parks and Rec: Transform a surplus cargo container into a...
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Table of Contents: Bastille Day
You're probably thinking What's Bastille Day mean to me? Think of it as France's July 4th: It's the French national holiday, and it takes place on July 14th. But enough history—we're just using it as a...
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Hedge Fun: At Home with Garden Designer Deborah Nevins
Every gardener has a signature, and Deborah Nevins's is the monumental hedge. Her NYC-based landscape design firm Deborah Nevins & Associates deploys walls of uniform greenery to organize and...
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Shopper's Diary: Bleuet Coquelicot in Paris
It’s hard to miss Bleuet Coquelicot: Plants and flowers of all colors spill onto the sidewalk from a tiny storefront on a busy street in Paris's Canal St. Martin neighborhood. Most customers are...
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Field Guide: Lavender
Lavender; Lavandula: "The Practical Feminist" Alice Walker once wrote that “womanist is to feminist as lavender is to purple.” As the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Color Purple, Walker can be...
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Garden Visit: Starry Nights and String Lights in Northern California
When Marni Leis moved to Northern California 30 years ago, she experienced culture shock, at least when it came to the local architecture. Mill Valley, where she settled, was known for being "that...
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Steal This Look: The Spirit of Provence in a Walled Belgian Garden
Spotted in Antwerp: a charming townhouse garden by Archi-verde, designed for a couple of self-avowed Francophiles. After trips to Provence, the clients dreamed of lavender, grapevines, and a...
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Shopper's Diary: The Cheese Man of Pas de Blénac
Fields of wheat and sunflowers line the road to Jean-Paul Cohen’s goat cheese farm, Pas de Blénac, in the Charente-Maritime region of France. The crumbling stone walls, sagging clay rooftops, and...
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DIY: How to Make a Bouquet Garni
A bouquet garni is simply a small "bouquet" of fresh herbs that you pop into a broth, soup, or stew for seasoning as it cooks. A staple in French dishes from boeuf bourguignon to bouillabaisse, the...
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Gardenista Roundup: For Love of Boxwood
When you hear the word boxwood, do you think Versailles? In that French feat of landscaping splendor, boxwood is clipped and pruned and trained into submission, as hedges and edging and even...
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10 Easy Pieces: Window Awnings
Like baseball caps for houses, window awnings block the sun's harsh rays for infinitely more pleasant summer days. They're generally made of fabric stretched on a frame, and come in a vast range of...
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Vote for the Finalists in the 2014 Considered Design Awards
Time to weigh your choices. Let the voting begin: For our second annual Remodelista + Gardenista Considered Design Awards, more than 1,000 of you entered projects (twice as many as last year), ranging...
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10 Garden Ideas to Steal from France
Ah, le jardin à la française. No need to add the word formal to that phrase, because when it comes to French gardens, formal is a given. We've all seen Versailles (in photos, if not in person), and we...
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Hardscaping 101: Gabion Walls
From the banks of the Nile to your backyard, gabion walls are a boon to the landscape. Used for thousands of years by military and structural engineers, gabions provide an attractive, effective, and...
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