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World's Most Glamorous Doormat (Comes With Bristles)
Spotted on Kaufmann Mercantile, a latticed wooden doormat with a built-in shoe brush: Above: A Chevron White Pine Doormat is $89 from Kaufmann Mercantile. Above: Snow, ice, and slush are encouraged to...
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The Ultimate Predator Deterrent: Nighttime Edition
Night is a vulnerable time for gardens and coops. Raccoons and other nocturnal marauders (yes, we mean you, sweet-looking deer) can do a lot of damage while you slumber. Here's an idea shared by a...
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The English Gardener: A Dowager Duchess' Glorious Masterpiece
"Glorious" is a word that comes to mind whenever I visit Chatsworth. Not formidable and chilly like Versailles, but glorious. This is partly to do with the setting: from the west the honey-colored...
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A Grand Hollywood Backdrop: Chatsworth Plays Itself on Film
It is a truth universally acknowledged, to misquote Jane Austen, that British costume dramas often star Keira Knightley and are sometimes filmed at Chatsworth. This is partly because the house...
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DIY Rose Garland: New Life for Last Week's Flowers
Growing up, my best friends and I were always in our school plays. After performances our doting parents would dole out oversized bouquets; my friends had the habit of adorning their bedroom walls...
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Adrian Grenier's Garden in Brooklyn
With Warner Bros.' recent announcement that the studio plans to make a film version of Entourage, the HBO series' lead actor Adrian Grenier may not have a lot of free time for weeding his Brooklyn...
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The Greenest House in Venice, California
After the Bricault family remodeled their prewar cottage in Venice, CA and wrapped the house in a living wall of plants five years ago, the neighbors had all kinds of questions about their...
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A Clever Kitchen Herb Rack from Austria
We have been suffering from Herb Fatigue, a condition caused by buying an expensive bunch of fresh herbs, putting it into the refrigerator, and then forgetting it's there. Too late, we find the thyme...
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Hike of the Week: A Winter Wonderland in Maine
Photographer and Bar Harbor native Jennifer Steen Booher recently captured one of Acadia National Park's popular landscapes as most summer tourists seldom see it: in the glory of a winter storm. The...
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A Couple in Bloom: Clementine Floral Works in Silver Lake
In the bustling Sunset Junction area of Los Angeles' ever-evolving Silver Lake neighborhood, floral shop owners Teri Ryan and Cain DeVore create colorful arrangements for locals. Well, Ryan does the...
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The Landscape Designer Is In: Building a Private Outdoor Shower in...
Showering on a Manhattan rooftop: It might sound like a fantasy only Alfred Hitchcock could dream up, a case of Psycho-meets-Rear Window. But for an Upper East Side family with three young children,...
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A Medieval Town (and a Modern Garden) in Provence
In one of the oldest medieval towns in southeastern France sits a sprawling stucco-and-tile house built in the 1920s by the grandfather of Anne-Marie Midy (one-half of the design team behind artisanal...
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10 Favorites: Outdoor Showers
Plumbing can be a little complicated, so start planning now to create an outdoor shower by summertime. Here's a roundup of spaces that will make you wonder why anyone ever bathes indoors: By the way,...
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Crisis in the Commode: Powder Room Edition
There are people who refuse to use the bathroom if they are not at home, and I used to think they had a problem. That was before I ventured into the guest bathroom at a dinner party and a toilet paper...
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From Canada, a Chandelier That's Also an Herb Garden
We love the useful design of Toronto-based designer Ryan Taylor's Babylon Light, a ceiling fixture that's also a hanging vertical garden: Above: Made of powder-coated aluminum, the Babylon Light has a...
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Bounty from a North London Allotment
"My relationship to the plot is almost a love affair," says food editor Allan Jenkins of his allotment in North London. "I think about it often; do not like being away from it—her?—and feel guilty...
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5 Favorites: Veg Plot Must-Haves
We asked Allan Jenkins, biodynamic gardener and editor of Observer Food Monthly in the UK about his all-time favorites in the vegetable garden. The seeds which he would always sow—and the potatoes he...
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A Garden That Can Water Itself
For centuries, little brooks and springs ran like spider veins through the land in San Francisco. Most have been paved over. But the water has to go somewhere. In a house built in 1930 on a sloping...
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10 Easy Pieces: Wall Vases
Is there anything better than an instant and inexpensive design fix? A wall vase is an easy way to add a touch of green to bare walls or give life to a small space. With the initial investment of the...
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The Easiest Urban Garden?
"Gutter" is not the most beautiful word in the English language (nor does it have the happiest connotations: read "guttersnipe"). But when it comes to gardening, it's a different story; read on to...
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