Garden Visit: A Design Couple's Scenic Shelter Island Retreat

You would expect the Shelter Island weekend house of design pros Andrew Corrie and Harriet Maxwell Macdonald to have amazing interiors—after all, the two created and own NYC-based Ochre, a design studio known for its mod

On the Street: 10 Garden Ideas to Steal from Paris

Paris is a city of secret gardens. Turn a corner, duck into a doorway, or climb a winding staircase to find tiny parks, quirky courtyards, and hidden slivers of greenery. (And at day's end, in the last hour of sunl

Architects' Secrets: 10 Ideas to Create Privacy in the Garden

A fence is the obvious choice, but there are many other ways to design for privacy in the garden. We turned to members of the Remodelista + Gardenista Architect/Designer Directory for their outdoor privacy solutions: Wo

Lessons Learned: Salvaging a Garden From a Previous Remodel

Luke and Petra Hoyer Millar are unusual people; they moved to their current address in Oxfordshire two years ago but though they love their house, they've ignored it. Instead, the garden has taken all their attenti

Leaves of Grass: 9 Ways to Create Curb Appeal with Perennial Grasses

Add romance and hazy color to your life–and create instant curb appeal–by planting perennials grasses in a front yard, alongside a path, or as a mini meadow. Hardy, drought-tolerant perennials grasses are year-round frie

Swimming Pool of the Week: Dreaming in Blue at a Stylist's Hamptons Compound

After buying a 1950s house in the small East Hampton hamlet of Amagansett, fashion stylist Tiina Laakkonen and husband Jon Rosen built a compound of barn-like structures designed to pay homage to the land's rural t

Architect Visit: In Chile, a 1,400-Square-Foot House Rests Lightly on the Land

In Limanche, in the western center of Chile, a young family wanted a weekend house of modern design, geometrically simple. They needed total flexibility in the space—so that a sometime living room could be repurposed as

Landscaping: 10 Classic Layouts for Townhouse Gardens

Small space, infinite possibilities. Behind every city townhouse lies a garden. Some are long and narrow, others short and squat. No matter the size,  a well-designed garden is an oasis in a city (especially in August.)

England's Greatest Landscaper: 10 Garden Ideas to Steal from Capability Brown

In the 300th anniversary year of the birth of Lancelot "Capability" Brown, it is clear that his reputation as the United Kingdom's greatest landscaper is safe. What is not so clear is how the landscapin

Lessons Learned: From "Neglected" Slope to Charming Garden, in South London

For landscapers, the most difficult garden to design is their own. On the other hand, a particularly challenging space can focus the mind. We visit garden designer Catriona Andrews‘ sloping city garden in Herne Hil

Garden Visit: Mette Krull's Danish Greenhouse

In Denmark a greenhouse is the summer equivalent of the screened-in porch. During the short summers weather is variable, yet days are long. People are able to spend more time outdoors when they're under cover, pref

Swimming Pool of the Week: A Modern Update in Beverly Hills

In addition to its architecture and interiors practice, LA firm Simo Design (a member of the Remodelista + Gardenista Architect Directory) has made a business of updating promising houses and putting them back on the mar

Landscape Design: 10 Simple Layouts for Summer Roof Gardens

Even if you don't lie awake at night worrying about global warming, the subject probably falls into that category of things that you care about a lot. We all want to leave the world a better place than we found it

Garden Visit: Landscaping for a Modern House in Christchurch, New Zealand

"The garden is a very important part of the living environment of the home,” says Kristina Pickford, architectural historian and owner of the Ballantyne House, a midcentury modern house in Christchurch, New Zeala

A Study in Stone: The Renaissance of a Medieval Castle Garden in Catalonia

Along the coastline about an hour and a half's drive north of Barcelona lies the medieval town of Peratallada, where most everything including the old buildings, roads, and paths are made of carved stone. In the ce

Architect Visit: A Natural Pool and Passive House in New York's Hudson Valley

Most of the land on this 75-acre property in the Hudson Valley two hours north of New York City looks as if no one has ever lived on it. There are meadows, woodlands, vernal ponds—and a modest trio of buildings designed

Family Matters: Restoring a Historic Landscape in Concord, MA

Four years ago when Bruce Kohler and his wife, Ellen, moved into her ancestral home in Concord, Massachusetts, the 29-acre estate was virtually choked by "densely overgrown bushes, eleven dying sixty-foot blue spru

Swimming Pool of the Week: A Medieval Castle Gets an Infinity Pool

Earlier this week, we featured the 2,690 square-foot grounds of the Castillo de Peratallada—a 10th-century castle-turned-summer home in Catalonia, whose landscape was revived by Barcelona architecture studio Mesura. (See

8 Spectacular Grasses to Energize a Fall Garden

Its hard to beat what ornamental grasses have to offer: incredible texture, sublime colors and seed heads that sway and provide movement in the garden. As autumn begins, these spectacular plants move out of the

Great Design Plant: Coreopsis Redshift

One of the very first perennials I purchased for my urban country garden over two decades ago was a coreopsis — Coreopsis verticillata Moonbeam. A garden later, one that has seen drastic changes as I defined my