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Announcing Our New Design Guide to Retaining Walls
Retaining walls are the unsung heroes in many a landscape. On a slope, they prevent erosion, control rainwater runoff, and create terraced levels for patios and garden beds. In an ideal world,...
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Trending on Remodelista: 5 Design Ideas to Welcome Warm Weather
This week the Remodelista editors celebrated the start of summer by rounding up easy design ideas to update a beach house, weekend retreat, or woodsy getaway. See five of their favorite ideas....
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Current Obsessions: Summer Stillness
This weekend, after the holiday, a moment of respite. Above: Summer, deconstructed. Photograph from Fruit Roll-Ups for Happy Kids. The best new gift for gardeners and houseplant lovers (or yourself): a...
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Landscape Ideas: Garden Design for a Swimming Pool Area
Landscaping a swimming pool area is a different challenge for everyone, just as the design of any existing house and garden is different. However, when it comes to choosing pool landscape plants there...
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Le Jardin Plume: A Modern Impressionist Masterpiece in Normandy
For anyone hankering after European formality—only a touch, we’re not asking for Versailles—Le Jardin Plume in Upper Normandy is just the ticket. Influenced by more recent movements involving...
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Vote Now: Gardenista Considered Design Awards 2018
The submissions are in (more than 2,000 photos of gardens, patios, and design-worthy outdoor living spaces included)! Our panel of design experts has selected the finalists, and now it’s up to you to...
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10 Easy Pieces: Garden Tuteurs
Tuteur is the French word for tutor, and in the garden tuteurs teach plants valuable lessons. Whether you’re training night-blooming moonflowers or papery-thin clematis, climbing vines and flowers will...
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How to Arrange Flowers Like a Frenchwoman: 8 Chic Techniques
Frenchwomen, it’s universally known, have a knack for effortless beauty, from the way they dress themselves to the way they outfit their interiors. (Case in point: the beautiful-without-trying-too-hard...
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The Sand-Free Summer Cottage: 8 Ways to Keep the Beach at Bay
In summer nothing beats the feel of sand between your toes. Unless, of course, you happen to be inside. Sandy floors (or worse, sheets) are the bane of every beach cottage. But, as this native Cape...
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Gardening 101: Petunias
Petunia, Petunia x atkinsiana Once again it is time to give a salute and thanks for the many stalwart garden plants we have inherited from our southern neighbors. Beauties that we commonly choose for...
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Ideas to Steal: 10 Ways English Gardens Borrow from France
Neither the British nor French would like to admit that their mutual preoccupation is often based on admiration. Although certain elements of style are openly coveted and praised, this is balanced by...
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Gardening 101: Feather Reed Grass
Feather Reed Grass, Calamagrostis A connoisseur of ornamental grasses may be able to identify a particular species at a glance. But I need a cheat sheet to tell feather reed grass (Calamagrostis) and...
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Trending on Remodelista: 5 Design Ideas to Steal from France
Happy Bastille Day. In honor of the French national holiday, the Remodelista editors spent the week discovering new interior design ideas on the streets of Paris (and in the countryside). Here are five...
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Outbuilding of the Week: A Chic Chicken Coop in France
Transformed from corrugated chicken coop to a rustic luxe cabin, on a former pheasant farm—must be France: Photography by Ricardo Labougle and styling by Loreto López Quesada, courtesy of Isabel...
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Current Obsessions: Tricoleur
On the heels of our Vive La France issue—and to celebrate Bastille Day (and the upcoming World Cup final)—we’re taking note of a few French goings-on. Read on for some outtakes from the issue, plus...
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Plant Based Diet: Iced Tea, No Sugar Required
Over lunch one day at the very wonderful Honey & Co. in London’s Fitzrovia with a contingent of Remodelista editors, we cooled off with glasses of orange-blossom iced tea. Very sweet, no ice. And...
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10 Everyday Ideas to Steal from Estate Gardens
Few of us are immune to the allure of the country estate – the sweeping views and bucolic vistas across miles of countryside, the sense of space and fresh air and, of course, the joy of no near...
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Before & After: A Seaside English Garden by Farlam & Chandler
A garden in crisis greeted designers Harriet Farlam and Ben Chandler of Farlam & Chandler in 2016. Dingy concrete paving slabs and a completely overgrown garden set a sad tone in the long, narrow...
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Gardening 101: Olive Tree
Olive Tree, Olea europaea: “The Beauty of Age” By planting an olive tree on top of a hill in ancient Greece, the goddess Athena got a city named after her. Or so that story goes. Thousands of years...
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Swimming Pool Fences: 10 Ideas for Safety & Style at Water’s Edge
A fence is an important safety feature if you have a swimming pool; you don’t want anyone drowning. Legal requirements for swimming pool fences can vary depending on municipal or state law. But no...
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