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Roundup: Our Favorite Garden Gates
Hardly a garden feature comes to mind more charming than the garden gate. A personal favorite is the too-low-to-be-useful white picket fence with a gate that opens to a blowsy summer garden. But maybe...
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A Luxury Step Ladder in Pink Washed Oak from Iacoli & McAllister
Did you just finish hanging a hard-to-reach houseplant? Worried about how you'll reach it for weekly waterings? Don't fret. We've found just the thing you're after. A new piece from a design favorite,...
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10 Easy Pieces: Architects' White Exterior Paint Picks
At the risk of stating the obvious, it's hard to find the best outdoor paint for your house. White is a classic, but choose the wrong shade and you'll end up with a very expensive mistake. We wanted...
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The New English Garden, by Tim Richardson
Tim Richardson is Britain's leading garden thinker, contributing to every garden journal of note and directing the Chelsea Fringe Festival when not thus engaged. His latest book, The New English...
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At Home With Prince Charles: A Garden Ramble
On arriving at Highgrove, home of the Prince of Wales, you can't help feeling a little excited. Tickets are not easy to come by and a passport is required on the day. A sign declares "Warning: You Are...
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An Ounce of Prevention: A Natural Remedy for Cold and Flu Season
The back-to-school season should be about freshly sharpened pencils, uncreased notebooks, and squeaky clean new sneakers—not worrying about coming down with a cold. Fortify your germ-fighting abilities...
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Design Sleuth: A Very Sophisticated Growlight
I spotted no fewer than ten fancy grooming supplies to add to my wishlist after reading Sarah's post yesterday on the new Spruce Apothecary in Portland. But it was the brass and handblown glass...
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Nesting Garden Boxes from Peg and Awl
Made from reclaimed wood that's more than a century old, a set of three nesting garden boxes from Peg and Awl would be just as happy on a kitchen shelf. But remember that with winter coming, you'll...
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Save the Peonies
Last winter, bulb grower Scott Kunst of Old House Gardens sent out an appeal to customers to help him rescue endangered heirloom peonies: "When I first started collecting heirloom plants in the 1970s,...
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Pack It To Go: Apple Coconut Crisp
Olivia Rae James of Everyday Musings sees apples and her mind skips directly over pie to rustic, buttery crisps. We like the way her mind works. When we asked her to devise a very-September recipe us,...
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A Cloth Sack to Swaddle Tiny Houseplants
I'm a big fan of the cachepot. First, it's an excuse to practice my French—that's ˈkaSH(ə)ˌpō for you anglophones—and then there's the fact it prevents me from turning my apartment into a potting shed....
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5 Favorites: Rent-a-Chicken for Commitment Phobes
If the backyard chicken trend appears to have peaked in your neighborhood, it's probably because poultry ownership, like marriage, is a scary commitment. Why not live together first? Enter chicken...
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Modern, Minimalist, and American Made: NativeCast Planters
We recently spotted NativeCast among the nominees for Martha Stewart's American Made Awards. An avid container gardener, NativeCast founder Ricky Giacco drew on his own gardening experience to create a...
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We're Obsessed: Summer's Last Hurrah
Back to school, back to work—this week has been about brown bag lunches (did you remember to pack our apple coconut crisp?) and a heat wave to remind us summer's not over yet: Above: Photograph by...
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5 Favorites: Remodelista's Top 5 Posts of the Week
This week on Remodelista, Christine visited Nashville, Alexa blew her grocery budget on school supplies, Justine bought (puppy tested) dog treats, Julie embraced vegetarianism (briefly), and Meredith...
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Happier at Home: 10 Reasons to Bring the Outdoors In
Have you ever stepped out of the car (after a traffic-dodging drive from the city) into mountain air, drawn in a deep breath, and felt instantly better? Here's how to cue the same relaxation response...
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Moveable Feast: A Pop-Up Farm in Brooklyn
North Brooklyn Farms is a pop-up oasis of kale, tomatoes, and eggplants growing in a former parking lot near the Williamsburg Bridge in the shadow of a defunct Domino Sugar factory. Built on pallets,...
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5 Favorites: Modern Root Cellars
Whenever we go apple picking, we get a little carried away. How many families can eat three bushel baskets of fruit before it goes bad? Solution: storage racks that extend the lifespan of "keeper"...
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Shades of Gray: Architects' Top 10 Paint Picks
There are at least 50 million shades of gray. Which one will look best on your house? We asked members of our Architect/Designer Directory to reveal their favorites. Here are the ten exterior gray...
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Modern Farmer Hits the Newsstands with Issue 02
During a recent stay at the 21c Museum Hotel, I was pleasantly surprised by their curated magazine collection. One title (featuring a bold black rooster) stood out in particular: Modern Farmer. With...
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