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Twitter Contest Winner: The Joys of Weeding
Since the start of spring, we've been celebrating the season by hosting weekly contests, each offering a prize from the new Williams-Sonoma Agrarian catalog. Last week we asked readers to tweet about...
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Design Sleuth: Red Metal Bistro Chairs
Are you starting to wonder if we're obsessed with outdoor seating? For the next six months, absolutely. We like the red metal cafe chair we featured on Remodelista Accessories: Flanelle Textiles in...
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10 Easy Pieces: Outdoor Hurricane Lanterns
We're unapologetic boosters of candlelight—so flattering, don't you agree?—and we consider classic hurricane lanterns a necessity for spring and summer evenings on the porch, the patio, the balcony....
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Design Sleuth: Vines as Espalier
This is what my backyard looks like, with espaliered vines crisscrossed in a delicate web against a whitewashed fence. In my dreams. The reality, a few months after a remodel during which the...
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Tucked Amid LA's Strip Malls, a Green Oasis Hides Its Past
You could easily zoom past it on busy Crenshaw Boulevard in Palos Verdes Peninsula, CA. It is so unexpected to find this haven of greenery among the strip malls and shopping centers. But the South...
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The Ultimate Indoor/Outdoor Dining Tableware
What you want, when it comes to outdoor dining, is indestructible dishes and unbreakable drinking glasses. What you don't want is plastic. The solution: remember enamelware? It's been a challenge to...
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5 Reasons You Should Be Outdoors Right Now (Instead of Reading This Post)
We had one of those weeks that could have been way better—it rained on a day we planned to shoot photos of outdoor rugs, we missed the Wednesday free lunch at work, and Alexa threatened to crack down...
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Want to Trade It All for Life (or a Weekend) on the Farm?
Who hasn’t fantasized about trading it all for a life on a farm? Dutch marketing genius Luite Moraal has us pegged, and his network of Feather Down Farms delivers the homespun fantasy, with sleeping...
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Holiday at Home, Charleston Edition
Here’s a thought: This summer, avoid the stress of travel by creating a holiday vibe at home so great that you’ll never have the need to get away from it all. Having a swimming pool and cabana will...
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Help Me Choose an Outdoor Rug (or Have I Gone Too Far?)
You can install outdoor lighting and heaters and sofas and dining tables on a patio—in fact, I am considering all of the above—but there comes a time when you have to ask: what's the point of turning...
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Britain's Can-Do Garden Guru
The basic (and compelling) idea underscoring British journalist Alys Fowler's can-do gardening philosophy is that you can pretty much plant a garden anywhere—in boxes, or rusty tin cans even, if you...
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Miracle Cure for Spring Allergies: Gentle Nettle Tea
I never had allergies growing up. As soon as the weather was warm, I would throw off my jacket and practice log rolls down our backyard hill. I covered my nose with bright yellow pollen without so...
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A Happening Shop in Venice Beach, Dedicated to Outdoor Living
For designer Ilan Dei, the best of life happens outdoors. After he spent 20 years embracing the Southern California lifestyle of Venice Beach, it was perhaps inevitable that he would become the...
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A Modern Garden in a Medieval Setting
One would think that designing a contemporary garden in a newly renovated family home is a fairly straightforward proposition. But what if the home is an old games pavilion on the family estate—Haddon...
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10 Easy Pieces: Sturdy Mudroom Hooks
If April showers bring May flowers, I'll gladly skip right ahead to May. But whether this month brings rain or shine, April's the time to be out in the garden, clearing debris and making room for new...
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Share Your Recipe to Win a Vertical Garden
To celebrate the arrival of spring and cap off a month of giveaway contests, this week we're awarding a grand prize from William-Sonoma Agrarian's spring catalog: a Freestanding Vertical Garden with a...
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DIY: Envy-Inducing Planters (Spray Paint Is Involved)
I have the sort of family that perks up at the first whiff of a DIY project. Mention there might be spray paint involved, and they practically leap off the couch to compete for the honor of hosing...
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5 Favorites: French Flower Buckets
There's a reason you cannot walk down a street in Paris in spring without tripping over a metal flower bucket or two. The pails are weather-resistant and available in a variety of shapes (there's a...
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World's Best Backyard Playhouse
There's no denying that architects' kids have it made. After the Bach children asked their parents for a playhouse, they got a well detailed and beautifully executed backyard folly. We’re wondering if...
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10 Easy Pieces: Graphic Outdoor Rugs
Outdoor rugs: tricky to pick the right one. You want to create an irresistible place to lure you to read, nap, or have cocktails outside. What you want to avoid is turning the outdoors into a meek...
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