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Architect Visit: Olle Lundberg's Scavenged and Salvaged Cabin
Back in 1996, San Francisco architect Olle Lundberg responded to a classified ad about a property in Cazadero, CA (population: 354). Little did he and his wife, Mary Breuer, realize they were embarking...
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Field Guide: Cosmos
Cosmos, Cosmos bipinnatus: "Mexican Aster" With their perfectly ordered petals arranged around golden centers, cosmos flowers look a bit like planets radiating around the sun. It's easy to see why...
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Entries Close at Midnight Tonight! Plus, a List of the Lightest Categories
Entries to our second annual Considered Design Awards are due by midnight Pacific time tonight, Monday July 7. Here's what's required: Just upload as many as six photos of your project, with captions,...
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Garden Visit: The Hobbit Land Next Door
I think I probably would have bought my house in Mill Valley, CA, even if Linda didn't live next door. Or if she hadn't been the sort of gardener who turns a dusty rectangle of dirt into a mossy...
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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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High/Low: 5 Teak Garden Classics
One rule of thumb when buying outdoor furnishings: Metal looks good against a backdrop of green plants, but wood looks good anywhere. Enter our old friend teak. Here are five weather-resistant teak...
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On Blue Mountain Lake: The Hedges
Every summer we went to the lake—four kids under the age of eight piled in the backseat, bickering about whose turn it was to sit by the window and threatening each other with Indian rope burns for the...
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10 Easy Pieces: Canvas Teepee Tents
Technically a teepee is shaped like a cone, but we're willing to expand the definition to include any peaked pyramid shape, whether it has a square floor or a round one. Here are 10 we'd love to camp...
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DIY: Modern Mothballs (No Chemicals Included)
Summertime shouldn't be synonymous with the pungent smell of mothballs, but for anyone lucky enough to have a summer house, it too often is. People use mothballs to protect woolen clothes and blankets...
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Gardenista Roundup: 8 Nap-worthy Summer Bunkhouses
For many of us, summer vacation means the gift of sleep. Sure, we like to go swimming, scarf down a few lobster rolls or hot dogs, and read a book (or four). But being allowed to lie down for a...
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Architect Visit: A Portable Beach Cabin, Sleds Included
New Zealanders call them "baches"; small, simple wood vacation houses for no-frills holidays by the sea. One definition of a bach is "something you built yourself, on land you don't own, out of...
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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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