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Trending on Remodelista: City Life
Julie and the Remodelista editors spent the week gathering simple tips to add style to even the tiniest urban abode: DIY Ikea countertops stained dark, display-worthy cookware, and space-saving kitchen...
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Current Obsessions: Falling Leaves
Take a look at a few things we admired this week: Above: A quick trek through the garden of South Australia's John Wamsley, also known as the Bush Gardener. Photograph by Sally Wilson. View the Grand...
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Table of Contents: Fall Forecast
New season, new ideas. We're excited to share our fall forecast, with a week of outdoor design and landscaping trends that will keep you in the garden year-round: Above: We're playing with fire. As the...
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Instagram Insider: An Intimate Look at the London Garden of Sam McKnight
What becomes a legend most? Celebrity hair stylist Sam McKnight's 70,000+ followers on Instagram are content to look at closeups of his flowers (with the occasional shot of Chanel backstage). Landscape...
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15 for 2015: Best Garden Design Trends for Fall
What feels new and fresh for fall? We've rounded up 15 of our favorite garden design trends, from gravel gardens to indoor herb troughs: The Minimalist Pergola Above: "A garden without a pergola is...
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10 Genius Garden Hacks with Poured Concrete
An encore on the usefulness of concrete in the garden! (Our previous post on the subject focused on genius build ideas involving off-the-shelf concrete block.) Today's installment looks at custom...
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10 Easy Pieces: Solar Lighting
The house we rented during our last summer vacation had an outdoor solar lamp installed next to the entry door. The black bulky lamp was far from attractive, but it gave efficient light in the...
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Mother-In-Law's Tongue Roundup: Modern Style for a Retro Houseplant
Sansevieria trifasciata, snake plant, mother-in-law's tongue, sword of Saint George. No matter what you call this houseplant, the West African native is almost impossible to kill. (My mother can attest...
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Garden Design: Dan Hinkley at Home on Puget Sound
For high drama in the garden, visit the well-known plant collector and author Dan Hinkley. His 6.5-acre garden on Puget Sound features rare specimens from 65 trips to nearly two dozen countries and is...
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DIY on a Budget: $30 Mini Concrete Planters
File this one under trial and error: I started the project with high hopes of making a 2-gallon cement planter that I could stock with a variety of succulents. But while struggling to free the large...
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Fall Flowers: 8 Best Plants, to Move Beyond Mums
On stoops and front porches bright displays of chrysanthemums are symbols of the return of the chilly season, the approach of Halloween, falling leaves, Thanksgiving, the last hurrah before the cold....
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Hardscaping 101: Gravel Gardens
"Gravel garden" sounds like an oxymoron. Why dump a load of stone in a garden instead of planting grass or installing a more permanent hardscape surface? Three good reasons: Gravel gardens look lovely,...
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The New Vegetable Garden: 7 Essentials to Grow (and Eat) This Fall
For cooks and gardeners, fall is something of a second spring. It is our Greens Season. In hot summer climates there is no hope of growing crisp salads and chewy kales from June to August. And cilantro...
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Miracle Cork: Melanie Abrantes' Pots and Planters
In addition to its being water resistant, naturally antibacterial, sustainable, and recyclable, cork can be turned into all sorts of things. Oakland designer Melanie Abrantes hand turns it on a lathe...
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Outbuilding of the Week: A Cookhouse at Kurtwood Farms on Vashon Island
When restaurant owner Kurt Timmermeister bought a 4-acre property in the 1990s on an island in Puget Sound, it came with a historic log cabin but no kitchen. Rather than mess with the floor plan of the...
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Terrarium Trend Alert: Glass, with Brassy Highlights
The most stylish thing you can do this fall is to let your roots show. Especially if you're a houseplant. Japanese design team Daisuke Tsumanuma and Kenichi Yamada of 1012 Terra have created a cross...
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Trending on Remodelista: The New New
Ikea disruptors, dual-duty furniture, and rediscovered midcentury classics—these are a few of the new design trends Julie and the Remodelista team are including in their Fall Forecast. See more: Above:...
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Current Obsessions: At the Farm
Here's a look at the things we loved this week. Above: A farm house in Portland, Oregon gets a DIY backyard and curb appeal update. Photograph by Andrea Selkregg. The sounds of an Estonian forest are...
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Top 5 in Garden News: London Design, Trees in Jony Ive's Apple Store, and the...
Today we launch Garden News, a series devoted to keeping you (and us) up-to-date on what's new in the world of gardening, landscape design, and the natural environment: California's Ancient Sequoias...
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Table of Contents: Fall Foliage
If possible, tie a scarf over your hair, jump in a convertible, and drive to New England right now. Or join us this week to see the reds and golds and yellows of fall foliage. We're visiting gardens...
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