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Domestic Dispatches: Goodbye to the Romance of the Fireplace
There are many reasons I married my husband: for his salsa recipe, ability to make the modem thing work, and taste in books (if he likes an Alan Furst, so will I). But perhaps his greatest hidden...
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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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Shades of Gray: Architects Pick the 10 Best Exterior Gray Paints
There are at least 50 million shades of gray. Which one will look best on your house? We asked members of our Architect/Designer Directory to reveal their favorites. Here are the 10 exterior gray...
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The Orchid That Owned Me
The orchid was a housewarming present from my grandmother. It came from a quaint flower shop down the street that is owned by a neighborhood family. This gave my orchid an advantage over those on sale...
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Garden Visit: 66 Square Feet (Plus) on a Harlem Terrace
For nine years I gardened on a sliver of terrace at the top of a townhouse in the leafy Cobble Hill neighborhood of Brooklyn. That sunny space was small, and I needed so much: flowers, herbs, fruit, a...
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Steal This Look: A Boho-Chic Backyard Patio in LA
Creative director Sarah Samuel, who blogs at Smitten Studio, recently revamped the patio at her house in LA. We're smitten by its modern bohemian vibe. If you like it too, here's how you can recreate...
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The 8 Best Red Exterior House Paints
Red is a great house color, but only the right red will do. We searched high and low for the best exterior red paint colors, only to learn that the range of "right" reds is surprisingly wide. From...
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Outbuilding of the Week: Garage Turned Studio Apartment
As someone who until very recently made my own home in a studio apartment, I have a certain fondness for tiny spaces. And when I spotted this garage-turned-apartment designed by Sarah Trotter of Hearth...
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Christmas in Detroit: A Pilgrimage to Gardeners' Midwest Mecca
Detroit Garden Works' motto is "Where passionate gardeners come to shop." Step through the door, and you immediately understand why shoppers from as far away as Kansas, Pennsylvania, and Iowa make...
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Slide Ranch, at the Edge of the World
If America's open space movement was born and gained its early momentum in northern California—and it was, and it did—then perhaps it should not come as a surprise to find 134 acres of the world's most...
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Outbuilding of the Week: The 186-Square-Foot Guest Cottage
Raise your hand if you have space to sleep all your houseguests. Thought not. Basically, no one has enough guest rooms. But as I learned from living in New York (where for two years I operated a de...
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From Garden to Party: The 7 Best Holiday Cocktails
Christmas came early in 1933. When the repeal of Prohibition became official 80 years ago yesterday, bartenders at the Vanderbilt Hotel in Manhattan promptly began to serve 25-cent cocktails and...
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The Fig and I: Tips for Caring for a Fiddle Leaf Fig Tree
Nature has wired us to feel protective of babies, with their oversized, floppy heads. The big, round leaves of a fiddle leaf fig tree make it the houseplant equivalent of a newborn. So it was probably...
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Domestic Dispatches: What We Love (and Hate) About Ikea
There was a time—and I'm not saying I'm at all proud of this—when I used to go to Ikea for the Swedish meatballs. This was when we had toddlers, and my husband and I would strap them into the backseat...
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Recycle This: A Pair of Fishermen's Cabins Turned Beachside Cabanas
While most people recycle bottles and cans, Lisbon architect Manuel Aires Mateus salvaged a pair of old fishermen's cabins to create a rustic rental escape. The architect calls the project Cabanas no...
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Table of Contents: Best of 2014
This week, we're raising a toast to the year to come at Gardenista—and revisiting the best of 2014. Here are the most popular stories of the year: Photograph by Douglas Lyle Thompson for Gardenista....
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Before and After: A Grande Dame in LA's Hancock Park
Hollywood's version of the 1920s managed to be both giddy (the talkies are coming!) and gratified, because how else could you feel about life in a palm-tree paradise? Nowhere was the contrast more...
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DIY: Identify Leaves and Flowers (There's an App for That)
If you are like me, you are probably pretty good at the parlor game of identifying certain plants: the flowers your grandmother grew in her garden, the pine cones you spray painted gold in third grade,...
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Field Guide: Fiddle Leaf Fig
Fiddle Leaf Fig, Ficus lyrata: "Fiddler Under the Roof" Fiddle leaf fig plants have little to do with fiddles—or figs, for that matter. Unlike their cousins in the fig, or ficus, family, fiddle leaf...
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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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