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10 Easy Pieces: Chimineas
The chiminea, a freestanding ceramic fireplace invented in Mexico for baking bread, is our inspiration this week as we search for ways to stay warm outdoors. We've rounded up 10 of our favorite...
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Curb Appeal: 8 Best Orange Paints for a Front Door
Orange is not my favorite color. I think that's because it tends to scream for attention. That said, there are times when orange is a good paint color to use. Putting it on a front door is good, for...
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Rust Never Sleeps: 8 Surprising Ways to Use Steel in the Garden
The more we see of Corten steel in the garden, the more it appeals to us. To everybody else too, apparently—we're suddenly seeing the handsome weathered hardscape material everywhere we look. We're...
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Calling All Readers: Send Us Your Halloween Photos
Calling all pumpkin carvers: we want to see your Halloween curb appeal. Send us photos—jack-o-lanterns, spooky-bed-sheet ghosts, and the gnarly gourds on your front stoop. Upload photos to the...
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One Cheese at a Time: Jasper Hill Farm and the Rise of Vermont's Local Food...
"These Cheeses Sustain Vermont's Working Landscape." So it says across the top of Jasper Hill Farms' press packet. For brothers Mateo and Andy Kehler, who founded Jasper Hill, making excellent cheese...
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DIY: Justine's Haunted House on a Budget
Decor-wise, Halloween has never been my holiday. Christmas sparkle and Easter florals certainly inspire, but to me all those gravestones and ghouls are just, well, monstrous. But this year a comment...
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Wild at Heart: 10 Unruly Autumnal Arrangements
Do you shun russet-colored floral arrangements because you think they're an autumn cliché? I too used to say thanks but not thanks to orange florals before I came across the wild compositions below....
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Hardscaping 101: Stairway Lighting
By day, the best stairway lighting is barely noticeable. After the sun goes down, well chosen lights can transform staircases to glowing jewel boxes. Here's our primer to make your exterior stairs...
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DIY: Pumpkin Carving Ideas, Milky Way Edition
Every year I attempt to carve a pumpkin that's somewhat on the subtler end of the spectrum from the wide, toothy grinned pumpkins of my childhood. I'm usually foiled by rudimentary carving skills that...
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Garden Visit: Lucy Boston's Storybook English Home
The house and garden at Hemingford Manor are part of the local riverscape on the Great Ouse, Cambridgeshire. They also feature in a fictional one, the enchanted Green Knowe of Lucy Boston's children's...
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Before and After: A Music Studio Rises from Its Victorian Ruins
London architects Haworth Tompkins found an ingenious way to to honor history—by building a new music studio inside the ruins of a tiny dovecote on the Suffolk coast of England. A dilapidated brick...
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Shisito Cocktail: October in a Glass
By late October my potted shiso plants are several feet tall. Their ruffled green and purple leaves are sprinkled with flower spikes. As the nights grow longer, I begin to eat the leaves faster,...
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DiY: A Black Thistle Bouquet for Halloween
Looking for a last-minute way to spookify your Halloween dinner table? We suggest training your well-honed face painting skills on your flowers. Viewed through the right lens, thistles can look pretty...
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Trending on Remodelista: Genius Storage Solutions
At Remodelista this week, Julie and team have it in for clutter, with genius storage solutions for every room. Their mantra: "Having a place for everything = order + sanity." From perfectly folded...
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Current Obsessions: Cabinet of Curiosities
Here's what's on our radar this week: Above: We're daydreaming about an urban garden on a Juliet balcony. On our wish list: a set of three bee homes. Above: Foraged finds for natural dye. Photograph...
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Campus Visit: Sterling College for Aspiring Agrarians
The first sign that I was not at a typical college were the axes protruding from students' backpacks. Then, there were the 15 bushels of onions being cleaned by students in the courtyard. The...
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Table of Contents: Dark Shadows
While we're under the spell of our garden year round, there's something particularly enchanting about the wild darkness that we celebrate this month. (As Halloween is Michelle's favorite holiday, we...
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Before and After: A Charred Wood Cottage, on a $45K Budget
On the coast of Brittany, architects Lucie Niney and Thibault Marca of Paris-based NeM Architectes discovered "a vacation home frozen in time." The challenge was to add a bedroom without sacrificing...
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Gardening 101: How to Water an Air Plant
Pity the poor tillandsia. With its affable, low-maintenance personality, your little friend tends to get ignored on a bookshelf. Its nickname—air plant—may reinforce the idea that it needs no special...
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Field Guide: Beech
European beech (Fagus sylvatica): "The Chameleon" As a tall and graceful tree, beech can live to half a millennium. Its good looks can be adapted to a smaller garden as a hedge and it mingles well with...
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