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Carolyn Mullet, Garden Designer and 2015 Awards Judge
We're delighted to introduce the first of two guest judges in the 2015 Gardenista Considered Design Awards: garden designer and social media influencer Carolyn Mullet. Above: Carolyn likes to design...
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10 Garden Ideas to Steal from Artist Frida Kahlo
Was Frida Kahlo the original modernist gardener? After nearly two decades of full-on Fridamania (during which traveling exhibits of her paintings attracted sell-out crowds, the US Postal Service put...
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10 Easy Pieces: The Acapulco Chair
Having a moment: the Acapulco chair. The symbol of laid-back, midcentury resort style looks as comfortable today as in the 1950s when (legend has it) a French traveler borrowed from the design of a...
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10 Genius Garden Hacks with Concrete Blocks
Is there a more versatile hardscaping material than the humble concrete block? In the garden, you can use it to make: a wall, a privacy screen, a breeze block window, a planter for succulents, a raised...
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Small Garden Design: Japanese Serenity on Russian Hill in San Francisco
Serenity and calm pervade a Japanese-inspired garden that San Francisco-based Surfacedesign, Inc. created to complement the renovation of a multi-story midcentury modern house in the city's Russian...
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Eat-in Kitchen: An Undercounter Herb Garden
A new kind of undercounter kitchen appliance caught our eye recently. No bigger than a wine cooler, an Urban Cultivator mini greenhouse creates a perfectly balanced environment of light, water, and air...
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Gardenista Pop-Up Market: Join Us at GROW London in June
We're heading to London to host a Gardenista pop-up market at the second annual GROW London garden fair on Hampstead Heath from June 19 to 21. At the pop-up-market, our favorite local artisans and...
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Glass House Landscape: A "Permanent Camping Trip" for Architect Philip Johnson
Modernist architect Philip Johnson, perhaps best known for his urban work like New York CIty's former AT&T building and the classic Four Seasons restaurant, used to refer to himself as a landscape...
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DIY: Studiomama Pallet Chair
Looking for a weekend DIY? The small-scale deck chairs in London-based, Danish-born Nina Tolstrup's Studiomama Beach Chalet are made from standard wood pallets and 50 screws. Step-by-step plans are...
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Landscaping 101: A Garden Arsenal to Fight Weeds
Call me old-fashioned, but in the war of the weeds, I prefer hand-to-hand combat over chemical warfare. In my experience pulling up weeds by hand or trowel is not only more effective at getting rid of...
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Long Island Summer: A Modern Pool Pavilion in Water Mill
The challenge: To create a feeling of lightness and space for a pool house that must share space with a tennis court and the main house on just a small section of a six-acre parcel of land on Long...
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Floral Design: A Hanging Wall Pocket for a Flower
Brooklyn-based ceramicist Yuka Uchida grew up in Japan and and instills an elegant simplicity in her designs. In addition to jewelry and tableware, her OVO Ceramics line includes a mini wall pocket...
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Trending on Remodelista: Ideas to Steal From Scandinavia
This week on Remodelista, the editors surveyed the Scandi design scene; here's what they found: Above Blonde on blonde? 9 Favorites: The New Timber Kitchen. Above: Beyond the Wishbone: Julie looks at...
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Current Obsessions: Midsummer Night's Dreams
Take a look at what's on our radar this week: Above: Winners of the 2015 Gardenista Considered Design Awards will receive $200 gift certificate to spend at Terrain and will be featured in a post on...
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Recipe Roundup: 10 Shrub Recipes for Summer Fruit
What to do with a bushel of nearly gone fruit? Thrifty American colonists added sugar and vinegar to make a sweet and sour syrup that would last the winter. What did they call it? Shrub. Don't worry,...
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Table of Contents: White Gardens
One of our favorite color palettes for a landscape is white on white. With a dash of white. You might be surprised by how many shades of pale there are (and by how lovely they look by moonlight). Join...
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Landscape Architect Visit: "Sex in the City" Meets Edith Wharton in Manhattan
Not everyone loved the the mid-19th century architectural fashion that introduced to Manhattan genteel rows of brownstones whose "uniform hue coated New York like a cold chocolate sauce," as the...
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DIY Recipe: Rosemary Shortbread
I met Blue Bottle Coffee pastry chef Caitlin Freeman when the founder of the wildly successful Miette bakery and sweets shop in San Francisco came to Heath Ceramics to sign her book, The Blue Bottle...
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11 Ideas to Steal for a Moonlight Garden
When archeologists stumbled recently upon the ruins of a lost garden at the Taj Mahal, where night-blooming white flowers filled the air with perfume in the 17th century, the evidence helped solve a...
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10 Easy Pieces: White Outdoor Dining Tables
For the last four years I’ve been fixated on a photograph of a bare courtyard with a single, white-painted beer garden table and two potted plants. Even in my color-obsessed phases (last month was all...
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