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Hardscaping 101: Garage Flooring
Looked at your garage floor lately? Concrete takes a beating and might benefit from a covering to keep it looking good and help it last longer (not to mention taking on new uses, such as a sport court...
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10 Favorites: Indoor Bicycle Storage
Not everybody has a garage. City dwellers know the challenge of where to park the bicycle indoors; here's a roundup of ideas. For an excellent selection of storage racks, see the New York Times...
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Shopper's Diary: Lila B. Design at Stable Café in SF's Mission District
When San Francisco floral designer Baylor Chapman, owner of Lila B. Design, decided to change locations in the downtown Mission District a few months ago, all she had to do was walk a few steps from...
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Outbuilding of the Week: Rethinking the Pre-Fab Utility Shed
At first glance, we thought that this meticulously detailed and carefully crafted building standing alone on a hill in the landscape might be a bijoux guesthouse or even a small chapel. Imagine our...
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Design Sleuth: Gardener's Work Table at Lila B. Design
Secretly I believe all furniture should be on wheels—especially worktables under which you're forever sweeping or vacuuming or hosing. So it was inevitable that I would fall in love at sight with San...
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Ask the Expert: Garden Friendly De-Icing Techniques
Though I'm not one to complain about a beautiful snow fall, I'll concede that the slippery mess that a blizzard leaves behind can make for a treacherous morning commute. As I've navigated the streets...
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The Week in Review: Patiently Awaiting Spring
With the cold months coming to an end, we are looking forward to the purge that often coincides with warmer temperatures. This week we shared some of our favorite garage storage and organization...
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Carolyn Murphy's Painting Studio—in the Garage
Paul Gauguin may have had to flee France for Tahiti to find his painter's paradise, but Carolyn Murphy need only retreat to her own garage. The model and actress—yes, you've seen her, in addition to...
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Heat, Rinse, Repeat: A Sauna Hut in Sweden
In Scandinavia, the ritual of sauna and bathing is a national pastime—a highly social and communal one, we might add. How could it not be? Sitting together intimately in close quarters, conversing...
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Shopper's Diary: Behind the Scenes at Winston Flowers in Boston
It all began with a pushcart. Since their first days wheeling flowers up and down Boston's fashionable Newbury Street in 1944, Robert Winston and his son, Maynard, cultivated a business based on rare...
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A Japanese-Inspired Ranch in New Mexico
Rick Joy, the under-the-radar architect of the American West, is the design visionary behind Lone Mountain Ranch, a slice of modernism in the New Mexico desert. Owners Robert and Mary Lloyd Estrin...
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Ask the Expert: 10 Tips for a Zero Waste Garden
My neighbor Bea has persuaded her family (including her husband, Scott, her two sons and a tiny dog) to live with less stuff than the average monk—and to produce no garbage. She's a high priestess of...
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5 Favorites: Stylish Rain Barrels
A drought in California has us carefully considering the ways that we're planning to approach our gardening this spring and summer. In addition to planting Drought Tolerant Perennials, we're hoping to...
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Drink Up: A Good-Looking Water Filter
Ready to trade your plastic Brita pitcher for something a little more presentable? This new glass design from Soma just might fit the bill. Its creation story goes something like this: at a dinner...
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The Dark Mirror: A Backyard Reflecting Pool in Eastern Europe
From the street, you would never know. A tall hedge of clipped yew hides a backyard reflecting pool whose surface is "a dark mirror," designed to reflect the sky and clouds above Brno in the Czech...
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Steal This Look: A Seaside Beauty in Marin
If we had a seaside vacation home, we'd want ours to be architecturally refined, eco-friendly, and ultimately casual, just like the Seadrift House by San Francisco-based CCS Architecture. Located a...
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Shopper's Diary: Natural Flower Dyes and Silk Scarves, from Cara Marie Piazza
As a florist and flower lover, I like to see flowers put to good use. The downside of working in the world of floral design is that there's a considerable amount of floral waste. Leftover flower scraps...
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Design Sleuth: Vertical Garden of Terra Cotta Pots
In Australia, where drought is nothing new, we often spot clever ideas for creating eco-friendly, low-water gardens. In this case, interior designer Claire Larritt-Evans used a custom version of an...
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Ask the Expert: 11 Tips for Designing a Water-Conscious Garden
With offices in Phoenix, Arizona and Austin, Texas, landscape architect Christine Ten Eyck knows a thing or two about designing in arid landscapes. Lest you think the solution to designing a...
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10 Easy Pieces: Rain Chains
Downspouts are one of those items that homeowners like to ignore. And who can blame us? Downspouts are not very attractive. They can be loud when they are effective, and troublesome when they aren't...
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