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Hardscaping 101: Best Window Boxes
Name a construction material—wood, zinc, copper, iron, tin, ceramic, terra cotta, wire—and no doubt someone somewhere has made a window box from it (I once saw beautiful window boxes made out of rubber...
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Domestic Dispatches: 7 Secrets to Make a Perfect Bed
If you count all the hours we allot to plumping pillows, smoothing sheets, straightening shams, and fussing over how the whole thing looks, we spend as much time on our beds as in them. Yet the results...
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Garden-to-Table Recipe: 10-Minute Pasta Sauce with Radicchio and Cheese
I made this recipe for three reasons. One, I wanted to try a recipe from the cookbook we recently reviewed, Bitter. Two, I had just made fresh red pasta, colored with beets, and was seeking a sauce...
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Orchard Visit: Apple Picking in New England at Sweet Berry Farm
It always throws me for a loop to see the first fall apples appear among the last of the summer stone fruits at our farmers' market in Rhode Island. Apples and peaches belong to two distinctly...
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Outbuilding of the Week: Designer Tim Lloyd's Timber Work Studio in Hampshire
When British industrial designer Tom Lloyd of PearsonLloyd decided to build an outbuilding on his property in Hampshire on the southern coast of England to replace a dilapidated garage and an old...
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Garden-to-Table Recipe from a Cook’s Garden: Eat Your Greens
Sturdy greens like chard, kale, and collards are standbys in the garden throughout their entire growing season, which extends into the cold weather, sometimes even beyond the first killing frost. Thank...
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Garden Visit: The Walled Survivor of Sulby Hall
Does a big garden need a big house? At Sulby Garden in Northamptonshire there is a powerful sense of Sulby Hall, demolished in the 1950s. As well as the stable block, the walled garden survives, with a...
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Trending on Remodelista: Kitchens Around the World
Psst, looking for a $500 kitchen? You came to the right place. Remodelista's editors spent the week exploring kitchens around the world. They tested Aga ranges, cooked in glamorous Parisian flats, and...
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Current Obsessions: Autumn Light
Here's a look at what's on our radar this week: Above: Photograph by Christine Chitnis for Gardenista. Road trip alert: Christine Chitnis is hitting the highway in New England to come up with a weekend...
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Before and After: Jonathan Adler and Simon Doonan on Shelter Island
Every few years design gurus Jonathan Adler and Simon Doonan either move house or latch onto a new one. They call it upward mobility syndrome, but if their latest move is any indication, the...
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Table of Contents: Belgian Masters
The light changes. You notice one morning that the sun is hitting the living floor in a new spot. It's a painterly time of year: moody purples look gray and grays are almost black, and we're drawn to...
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Before and After: A Fairytale Farmhouse Rescued from Ruin
In the village of Heusden-Zolderin the Belgian province of Limburg, AID Architecten renovated a dilapidated farmhouse for owner (and interior designer) Dorien Cooreman of Moka Projects. The traditional...
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Artful Planters from Belgium
Planters as sculpture: handmade clay vessels from Belgian-based Atelier Vierkant function as art for the garden. In the US, the planters—which "explore the possibilities of organic minimalism in form...
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Field Guide: Chicory
Chicory: "Happy to be Bitter" A decorative crop for the colder months, endive or chicory is easily grown, except for the pale ovals known as the Belgian endive. Grown outdoors in summer, dug up, given...
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DIY Floral Arrangement: A Bouquet Inspired by Old-World Still Lifes
When I think of the still lifes of Flemish Renaissance masters, dramatic lighting, saturated colors, and hyper-realist flowers come to mind. In other words, the best of the autumn garden. To honor the...
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Gardening 101: How to Use Fallen Leaves
Everybody knows that the absolute best use for fallen leaves is to rake them into a high, crunchy pile in the middle of the lawn and then jump in. Second best? Use fallen leaves as mulch. Here's how:...
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10 Garden Ideas to Steal from Belgium
There is a painterly quality to nearly everything that comes from Belgium. It's a region that for centuries has felt the influence of its opinionated neighbors. In almost any Belgian garden there is...
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DIY Succulents: Tabletop Arrangement for Under $20
Last week, I threw a dinner party using recipes from Gardenista's library of Garden-to-Table Recipes, and we profiled the finished product in The Dinner Party Project: Easy Weeknight Recipes. But we...
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In the Garden with Philippa: Brit Style with a Black Backdrop
When Philippa Burrough and her family moved into the farmhouse at Ulting Wick almost 20 years ago, they found an old farmyard full of rusting machinery as well as a handful of glorious black barns....
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10 Easy Pieces: Terra Cotta Planters
Small terra cotta garden pots are as basic and as cheap as they come; breaking one is no big deal. But larger planters are serious business: they're expensive, they're heavy, and after you invest in...
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