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The Secret Garden: At Home with Artist Claire Basler in France
Claire Basler lives and works in a former schoolhouse in Les Ormes, on the outskirts of Paris, where she creates enormous floral arrangements on a daily basis as the subject of her large-scale...
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Love Letters: 10 Romantic Houseplants for Valentine's Day
Victorian lovers sent coded messages to each other via houseplants (a gift of a scented geranium meant "let's rendezvous"). We're all for reviving the secret language of floriography on Valentine's...
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Be Mine: An Edible Valentine's Day Gift
Just add water and watch love grow this Valentine's Day, with a heart-shaped love note that Austrian graphic designer Julian Hagan has embedded with seeds to grow microgreens: Photography via Crowdy...
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Restaurant Visit: Hotel Amour Courtyard in Paris
Known for its 24 idiosyncratically decorated rooms where erotic photos mingle with the rest of the art on the wall, the Hotel Amour at the edge of Paris' historically racy Pigalle district also has one...
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Studio Visit: At Home with Brooklyn's Plant Whisperer
Today online magazine Freunde von Freunde publishes an exclusive interview (and apartment visit) with Brooklyn architect and designer Huy Bui, who is building a new kind of terrarium to solve a dilemma...
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Hardscaping 101: Metal Landscape Edging
Metal edging is the little black dress of a garden: elegant, strong yet understated, tailored and timeless. A long-time design secret of professional landscapers, metal has edged its way into the...
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Trend Spotting: 15 Best Finds from Maison et Objet 2015
Our favorites from the most recent Maison et Objet, Paris' pre-eminent design trade show: stylish new (or re-imagined) furniture and accessories for the spring garden. Here are our 15 discoveries:...
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Front Door Fashion: 9 Ways to Create Curb Appeal with Boxwood
Some container plants are too much trouble. Not boxwood. It's easy to create curb appeal with this evergreen shrub because well-behaved box won't lose its leaves, outgrow its pot, or clash with other...
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Outbuilding of the Week: A Romantic Cabin Hideaway
For most urbanites, escaping the crowds means getting out of town. Unless the retreat is in your own backyard. Enter a garden cabin designed by architectural-salvage specialists, Adam Hills and Maria...
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Trending on Remodelista: French Connection
Palest pink is the Remodelista editors' new favorite color as they visit Paris and environs this week. They've discovered an under-the-radar destination for romance, blush-tinged tumblers, and pink...
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Current Obsessions: 50 Shades of Grey
Here are a few things that obsessed us this week: Above: e.e. cummings in love. Romantic lighting, 19 ways. Wait, there's bondage? We were among the 20 million who thought it was a paint catalog. The...
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LA Story: Mix and Match Garden for a Spanish Colonial
When a young couple with a baby on the way moved into a 2,100-square-foot Spanish Colonial, LA designer Martha Mulholland created interiors that complement their Southern California garden. By mixing...
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Table of Contents: Drought Week
Gardens are powerful things. As global warming exacerbates drought conditions worldwide, we're looking for ways that gardeners can make a difference. We're taking note of colorful drought tolerant...
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Garden Designer Visit: Lavender Fields in Australia
Sydney-based garden designer Peter Fudge has never been fazed by the fact that Australia is the driest continent in the world. For nearly 25 years, he has created hazy, romantic gardens with drifts of...
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21 Tips: How to Save Water at Home, One Drop at a Time
I'm afraid that of late I've become a crushing bore on the topic of water (just ask my family). I’m on a mission to reduce consumption, at least in my own household. We recently downsized to a smaller...
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Steal This Look: A Minimalist Marfa Exterior Space
When Houston-based designer Barbara Hill bought a former dance hall in Marfa, Texas, a few years back as a vacation house, the property was in a state of disrepair, and the landscaping was nonexistent...
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11 Ideas to Steal from Drought Tolerant Gardens
We're traveling to some of the driest gardens on earth—from Australia to Texas to Greece—to round up 11 eco-friendly landscape design tips that won't force you to sacrifice style to save water: Gravel...
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10 Easy Pieces: Best Succulents
Are you sick of hearing that succulents are "easy" when the only thing yours do reliably is die? The solution is to get the right succulent for the job. For instance. If you are trying to grow...
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Required Reading: The Postage Stamp Vegetable Garden
When the original version of The Postage Stamp Vegetable Garden was published in 1975, supermarket cauliflower cost 98 cents a head (the nerve!), and most tomatoes you could buy tasted like cardboard....
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Architect Visit: At Home with Bruce Bolander in a Malibu Canyon
In a drought-prone climate that gets an average of 22 inches of rain a year (50 percent less than the average US city), LA-based architect Bruce Bolander decided to experiment with color. Outdoors and...
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