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Facebook Contest Winner: Think Spring
Last week we invited readers to submit photos on Facebook of their favorite spring images for a chance to win a set of Rigel Stuhmiller note cards. Today we're pleased to announce the two winners are...
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Think Different: An Apple Alum's Inventive Way to Root Cuttings
Have you ever tried to propagate plant cuttings? It can be challenging. But it doesn't have to be. Enter Rootcup. Michael Good (a former Apple engineer and head of the product development company...
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5 Favorites: Outdoor Bathtubs
Bathe among the bamboo, echinacea, and redwood groves: five outdoor bathtubs for the sybarites among us. Above: An elevated outdoor bathtub at Napa Valley's Carneros Inn; see our post on Hotels &...
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DIY: Button Fern for Bathroom Greenery
As far as bathrooms in rental apartments go, we're pretty lucky. With a palette of white and more white, we were saved from the Pepto-Bismal pink tile and glitter-flecked vanities that I've seen in my...
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Design Sleuth: Stylish Garage Storage
I don't even want to know what's in your garage. I am suspecting there are bikes and skis—and helmets for both—and rakes and a forgotten fondue pot and a deflated basketball and mud-caked boots and a...
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The English Gardener: On Weekly Vegetable Boxes
A weekly vegetable box, delivered to your door: lovely idea. No more desperate purchases of road-weary carrots. Beetroot in unusual colors, kohlrabi which you've never considered before. What's in the...
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Instant Bamboo Fountain: Just Add Water
Dreaming of a fountain in your garden, but intimidated by installation complexities, space constraints, or budget considerations? We've found an answer: A bamboo spout fountain kit that allows you to...
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Steal This Look: Black and White Indoor/Outdoor Terrace
When I moved from a big, rambling East Coast house to Northern California a decade ago, I was shocked by how small West Coast houses were in comparison. Then it dawned on me: California practically...
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DIY Floral Arrangement: A Bouquet for a Newborn
Just over a month ago, my older sister and her husband welcomed the tiniest, sweetest little boy into the world. He joined us a month earlier than expected, so after I got the phone call saying all...
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Conquer Mud Season in Style with Danish Wellies
Recent rains have turned New England's winter wonderland into mush. Small wonder then that these stylish Wellies caught my eye. Made from 100 percent natural rubber and lined with warm fleece, these...
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Design Sleuth: Bookshelf Garden
Spotted by our friend Eliza Blank of The Sill, a night-blooming orchid cactus is thriving nowhere near the tropics, on a bookshelf in the heart of Chinatown in New York City. Does this mean the rest...
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A Mania for Marmalade
"Our marmalade is only made from Seville oranges," says the proprietor of England Preserves. "What's the point in adding anything?" He makes an exception for his father-in-law's marmalade: it has...
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World's Best Plant for a Bathroom
Here in the office we are always talking about how Alexa's favorite house plant deserves a medal: it's been thriving in her bathroom for five years. "Five years?" I asked, just to make sure I had that...
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DIY: Dried Flower Garland with Shane Powers
How much do I want my own dried flower garland, to drape over mirrors and above windows and maybe even across my computer screen? So much. In fact I am obsessing over it right now: DIY Project No. 20...
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Hike of the Week: San Francisco's Best Kept Secret
For several years B.D. (before dog), I lived in oblivion that the dense eucalyptus forest that sits at the top of my street was anything more than a collection of tall trees. Then came Olive, our...
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The Week in Review: 10 Bombshells to Share at a Dinner Party
What a week of revelations. We don't know where to start. We only hope we'll be seated next to you at dinner because we desperately want to hear what you think about the newest killer food, nudity on...
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A Teahouse, Charred and Blackened (On Purpose)
If one day you find yourself in the Česká Lípa district of the Czech Republic, look for a pine forest. And a calm, dark lake shaped like an "S." On its grassy shore sits the Black Teahouse. Built for...
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Found in Translation: What to Do in Tokyo
How I adore Tokyo. I've been here many times, including an entire year in the late 1970s when I attended Waseda University. Each time I return, I love it even more: I love seeing how it caught up to,...
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DIY: Ikebana Arrangement with Magnolias
SF-based florist Louesa Roebuck is all about "breaking the rules of floral arranging," as she says. "I find imperfection so much more interesting and beautiful." On an unseasonably springlike day...
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Vote Now: Pick Michelle's Perfect Wallpaper
As a girl, I was obsessed with wallpaper. The Flanagans down the street had flocked wallpaper in a powder room, and when I babysat, I would stroke its plush surface—"très chic," to borrow a phrase...
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