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10 Easy Pieces: Wedding Planning Apps
You just got engaged (congratulations!). Now to plan. Is the thought of setting dates, booking venues, creating guest lists, and hiring vendors while remaining in sync with your significant other...
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DIY: Louesa Roebuck's Wild (and Edible) Bouquets
On a swelteringly hot summer day we asked Louesa Roebuck, a Renaissance woman and renegade floral designer, to create summer bouquets for us. The perennial rule breaker (whose clients have included...
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11 Best Backyard Landscaping Ideas of 2015
Don't think of it as a backyard. Behind your house lies a wild meadow, a night-sky dining room, a mysterious path, or even an open-air art gallery. Potentially. With summer 2015 just around the corner,...
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Garden Visit: A Historic Hollywood Estate Turned Hotel
Eight years ago, when real estate developer Jacques Massachi bought the former Lombardi estate on Hollywood Boulevard, his plan was to tear it down and put up an apartment complex. Built in 1904, the...
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Surf's Up: At Home with Facebook Artist-in-Residence Jay Nelson
Today online magazine Freunde von Freunden publishes an exclusive interview with San Francisco woodworker Jay Nelson, a Facebook artist-in-residence whose "slightly subversive" projects worry the...
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The Sheltering Sky: 10 Ideas to Enhance Your House with a Roof Overhang
Why do some houses seem friendlier than others? Look no further than the roof for an answer. A house with a generous roof overhang provides an extra layer of shelter and protection—no wonder it looks...
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15 Favorites: How to Forage for Wedding Flowers
In my family, foraging for DIY wedding flowers has become a tradition. It started when my mom had the idea to grow potted centerpieces for her big day. Great idea, but when the flowers arrived nothing...
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First Aid Kit: 5 Essential Healing Plants for Summer
On Instagram summer is on steroids—a season of endless backyard lawn parties, with a slant of sunlight at just the right angle to showcase the flowers, grass, and mojitos. Because, really, who takes...
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Modern Family: A Tiny Garden Getaway in the Netherlands
Yet another contribution to the "Only in Europe" file: an architect-designed family cabin sited in the middle of a public park. Spotted on Desire to Inspire: The Poplar Garden House is a small cabin in...
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Trending on Remodelista: Raise a Glass to Weddings
We've been celebrating Wedding Season all week —and on Remodelista the wedding party continues. The editors have discovered modern monograms, the ultimate honeymoon suite on Mykonos, and Moroccan...
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The Landscape Designer Is In: A Modern Garden for a Midcentury Eichler Gem
To live in “an Eichler”—a home by Joseph Eichler, a midcentury housing developer and proponent of modern architecture—is not a rarity in Northern California. It’s special, to be sure, but Eichler was...
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Current Obsessions: Curb Appeal and Courtyards
Read on to see what we obsessed over this week: Above: Eichler update in Palo Alto. Photograph by Mariko Reed. This could be the prettiest bug repellent in the world. An exhibition dedicated to Frida...
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Table of Contents: Landscaping 101
Do you hear the crack of a starting pistol? The season of landscaping projects is officially underway. What's on your wish list? We're devoting this week to Landscaping 101, with ways to add a quick...
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Life After Life: The Unexpected Resurrection of Mrs. Boer's Garden
After 54-year-old plantswoman Dirkje Boer died of cancer in 2002, her garden sank into grief along with her husband and three sons. The two and a half acres of flowers she had cultivated against the...
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Sneak Peek: A Behind-the-Scenes Look at the 2015 Chelsea Flower Show
Prince Harry got in early today ahead of the 165,000 others expected to attend the annual Chelsea Flower Show in London after it opens to the public tomorrow. So can we. I have been living at the...
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Wolf Hall: 12 Garden Ideas to Steal from Henry VIII's England
Tudor gardens were a mix of medieval and modern; monastic utility giving way to horticultural displays of wealth and status. And yet, peeping past the characters in Wolf Hall, the PBS show's...
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10 Easy Pieces: Cafe-Style Outdoor String Lights
If one of your jobs as a child was to follow your mother through the backyard, slowly unfurling garlands of glowing bulbs for her to wrap around the trunk of the crabapple tree and drape across the...
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Gardening 101: How to Care for an Orchid
A lot of people bemoan their incompetence at growing orchids. I have the opposite problem—an inability to kill my scraggly supermarket-variety species after they stop blooming. Here's my secret: I...
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9 Foolproof Ideas to Add Color to a Flower Garden
For gardeners who crave color—and really, who among us is immune?—the sudden decline from a giddy, glorious springtime into the dusty doldrums of summer can be a terrible shock to the system. So fight...
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Landscaping 101: Pros and Cons of Homemade Weed Killer
In today's atmosphere of increasing environmental awareness, one can find any number of manuals for the would-be eco-MacGyver looking to whip up natural alternatives to harsh chemicals. One of the most...
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