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Hardscaping 101: Wicker Furniture Care
Does your outdoor wicker furniture require cleaning to get it in shape for the outdoor season? Here's everything you need to know to care for it: Wicker is a word used to describe nearly any woven...
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Currently Coveting: Ikea's New Wicker Collection for Summer
After a successful bonding trip to Ikea last week, my friend Stephanie and I were putting our loot on the checkout belt when she happened to glance over at a nearby table with a messy pile of...
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Bringing Up Baby: A Bavarian Barn for Pygmy Goats
Instead of erecting a prefab shed to shelter his herd of pygmy goats on a dry, grassy Bavarian slope in eastern Germany, architect Michael Kühnlein built a tiny wooden barn for less money, using...
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Magic Trick: How To Make Your Hydrangea Change Color
I'm not saying blue hydrangeas are necessarily better than pink ones. It's just that the particular color is so rare—"hydrangea blue" is not a hue that belongs to any other plant or any other anything...
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Trending on Remodelista: The Ultimate Indoor-Outdoor Kitchen
The Remodelista editors joined us in the garden this week to see what all the fuss is about. They found a floor plan for the ultimate indoor-outdoor kitchen—and it looks like they got a little color in...
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Current Obsessions: Welcome to Brooklyn, Hillary
With Hillary Clinton renting space in Brooklyn (hipster headquarters for a presidential campaign?), Francesca naturally had some advice about how she should decorate it: Above: Francesca's living room...
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The 7 Best Climbing Roses for Your Garden
Standing tall in my back garden is a large crab apple tree that I disdain but for one attribute: it is the best climbing tree around. I'm not talking about for my children, rather for my gorgeous,...
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Table of Contents: Oceania Outdoors
Join us for a week of lounging in the relaxed informality of Australia's best gardens. We'll visit lush gardens that need barely any water, spruce up our patios with stylish handmade planters, and...
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Designer Visit: A Courtyard to Covet in a Modern Melbourne Garden
A small garden in Melbourne suburb Toorak was a blank canvas the first time designers Cameron and Stephanie Paterson of Grounded Gardens saw the site. During a recent remodel, the existing garden had...
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Shopper's Diary: Garden Objects in New Zealand
We've long admired New Zealand-based designer Katie Lockhart's carefully curated home accessories shop Everyday Needs, so we were happy to hear that her brother Jared has launched Garden Objects, a new...
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10 Garden Ideas to Steal from Australia
Autumn in April is business as usual in Australia. Why have it any other way? As these gardens show, there is a liberation from being closer to the east than the north. Here are 10 modern ideas to...
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10 Easy Pieces: Retractable Garden Hoses
My bias against As-Seen-On-TV miracle products kept me from paying much attention to a new generation of lightweight, kink-free garden hoses that stretch and shrink like rubber bands. Until I saw one...
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Ikea Hack: DIY Midcentury Planters on a Budget
In Austin, Texas homeowners Heather and Mike Banks had been searching "for a long time for tall-ish planters for our front door entry," said Heather. But every option they liked "cost more than we were...
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At Home with Eco Garden Entrepreneur Joost Bakker
Born in the Netherlands and transplanted to Australia at age 9, Joost Bakker—the son and grandson of tulip farmers—earns a living as a florist, delivering and arranging flowers he grows on his own land...
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Steal This Look: Mattress Springs as DIY Wall Art
We immediately decided to recycle in style after we spotted a unique garden feature—rusted bedsprings attached to a brick wall—in the suburban Melbourne garden of designer Andrew Plymin. As Plymin...
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DIY: The Flowerpot Pendant Light
We have a fondness for the earthy warmth of terracotta lighting—see 10 Favorites: Terra Cotta Pendant Lights. But it wasn't until we spotted Australian garden designer Joost Bakker's DIY approach that...
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Low-Cost Luxe: 9 Pea Gravel Patio Ideas to Steal
At a cost of about $5 a square foot, a pea gravel patio is easy on the budget (especially if you open the 50-pound bags and rake the gravel yourself)—and can be a surprisingly elegant hardscape element...
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Hardscaping 101: Outdoor Fabric Care
Often referred to as high-performance fabric, outdoor fabric is the textile equivalent of a race car. Finely tuned to stand up to the elements without fading, mildewing, staining, or deteriorating,...
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Etsy Find: Hanging Cloud Planter from Australia
You know that mild dizziness you feel when you lie on the grass, watching the clouds glide by in the sky? Australia-based designer Margie Rahmann and her husband, Justin, make and glaze their shallow...
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Escape to Tasmania: An Obsolete Pump House Turned Eco Lodge
Pumphouse Point was originally just what it sounds like: a hydroelectric power station, perched over Tasmania's Lake St. Clair. Decommissioned in 1990, today it finally sees action: as an eco-lodge set...
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