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Outbuilding of the Week: An Instant Backyard Room For Summer Guests
Designed by Australia's ArchiBlox, these instant Backyard Rooms—well, practically instant—create extra living or studio space; no building permit required. All you do is pick a size, configure, and...
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Garden-to-Table Recipe: Zucchini Carpaccio (and Other Squash Solutions)
Right about now, anyone with a vegetable garden is trying to come up with new ways to eat zucchini. Fried, battered, or baked, these prolific plants are the gift that keeps on giving. Are you, too,...
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DIY: A $15 Waxed Canvas Tote
Practical and stylish, waxed canvas totes have long been popular with both outdoor types and urban sophisticates. Making one yourself is easier (and less expensive) than you might think. All it takes...
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Trending on Remodelista: Summer Wrap-up
Our friends at Remodelista have been taking note that some of the most appealing elements of summer—from beach finds to coastal blues—are worth incorporating into rooms year-round. Best idea? Pet...
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Current Obsessions: Last Light of Summer
Here's a look at what we've had on our radar recently: Above: Prints of things so neatly arranged, by Emily Blincoe. And they're for sale! “Here one year, gone the next”? A guide to growing echinacea....
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Garden Visit: An Oregon Garden Where Deer Are Welcome
Over the years, I've visited Ashland, Oregon, on several occasions. I've gone for the town's renowned Shakespeare festival, for good food, and sometimes just for a pleasant break on an umpteen-hour...
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Table of Contents: The Organized Life
We're celebrating anti-Labor Day this year, with tips and tools for leading the sort of organized life that leaves time for lounging around with a book. This week: ideas for a beautifully appointed...
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Architect Visit: K2YT's Indoor Garden House in Tokyo
The house must be a startling sight to passersby in this busy residential Tokyo neighborhood. On streets where houses typically are shrouded in curtains and awnings for privacy and relief from noise,...
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Steal This Look: A Sunny Work Studio (Fiddle Leaf Fig Included)
If we're diving back into work this week (and we will, Julie—promise), the easiest way to ease re-entry is with an office that feels like an indoor garden. Enter tropical houseplants. When we spotted...
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10 Easy Pieces: Hanging Votive Lanterns
The days are shorter but the evenings are still warm. Extend the season with flattering candlelight at outdoor cocktail parties. Yes, that's an order. Here are 10 of our favorite hanging votive...
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Field Guide: Sweet Basil
Sweet Basil (Osimum basilicum): "Tomato's Best Friend" Its summer associations are so strong that dried basil is unthinkable. In cooking, basil is all about freshness. It needs to be added to cooked...
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5 Favorites: Mini Houseplants for Apartment Living
An aversion to the average houseplant once was common in the design world. If you flipped through an architectural or interior magazine ten years ago, you'd have been challenged to find anything green....
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Small Space DIY: A Wall of Colorful Dried Flowers
The trouble with dried flowers is that often they end up looking very dry. I’m the first to admit that golds and browns are lovely (see Brown Is a Color and DIY: Winter Finery, Foraged in Brooklyn if...
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10 Easy Pieces: Garden Clogs and Ankle Boots
Given the choice, I'd go barefoot. It doesn't matter if it's sand between my toes or fresh garden mud, I like the feeling of my bare feet planted directly on the earth. When I was younger, my sisters...
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Tech Roundup: Best Apps for Garden Design and to ID Plants
Let me be the first to admit I haven't fully embraced the 21st century. Apps, for instance. Hate most. Often when I try to look up an address or a restaurant or the correct way to pronounce...
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DIY: Back-to-School Hand Sanitizer
I'm not a fan of drugstore varieties of hand sanitizers with their slimy feelings, awful smells, and long lists of hard-to-pronounce ingredients. But with my eldest son starting preschool this fall,...
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Hardscaping 101: Garden Sheds
Yearning for an outdoor storage closet? A garden shed can offer that and much more. From the simple to the sublime, garden sheds serve up space, solitude, and a work or play room with a view. Is a...
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The Novice Gardener: Help, Can This Olive Tree Be Saved?
I'm always nervous to return to my home after traveling; I wince at the thought of what I might find. Approaching my building, I'm always glad to see it still standing. Then I'm most reassured when two...
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Required Reading: The English Country House Garden
How to get the English country house look if you don't happen to own an English country house? It's easier than it sounds. The best gardens move with the times. In this gorgeously photographed book,...
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Outbuilding of the Week: Black and White Orangery, Scandi Style
I have a soft spot for spaces covered in windows and filled with plants; in a perfect world, I'd live in a home that closely resembles a greenhouse, with lots of light and lots of green. Swedish...
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