in new york there are sunday suppers, in baltimore it’s sometimes, and in paris you have hidden kitchen. it’s all part of this increasing trend towards intimate dinner parties where friends and strangers converge for a memorable meal. today’s sneak peek takes us into the parisian flat of laura adrian and braden perkins, the creators…
One of the foods I overdose on when I go to the USA is sushi. I always think I will never be able to get enough. Inevitably, I have too much, I swear I never want to see another sushi bar again…until the next time. Imagine how happy I was to see Jill Bliss’s recipe…
images, clockwise from top left: going well, woodley wonderworks, inhabitat, u of k, ludgate farms, trendir, national geographic I like to think that my relationship with water has been a pretty conscientious one ever since I became an adult. I’m mindful of running the dishwasher only when full, try my best to take quick showers,…
i’m holding out hope that spring weather is on its way, so i thought i’d start the day with some of the new items at terrain for spring 2010. i picked up some of their wire planters when i was there a few weeks ago and i was excited to see they’ve added some more-…
working for house & garden was one of the most amazing experiences of my life. to this day i still feel honored to have stepped foot in that office and to have been a part of such an amazing team and a magazine with such a rich history. so when the magazine closed its doors…
[studio choo is taking today off, so i'm thrilled to welcome sarah at saipua back for another weeder's digest post!] Todays floral post is all about reptiles. Specifically frogs and snakes. Fritillaria meleagris (also known as a Snake Head Flower) is a little spring bulbous flower that arrives in March. It is a petite and…
this fantastic wall makeover comes from scott and cheryl white in michigan. inspired by paint by number artwork, they decided to turn an ebay painting into their own custom wall mural. after their paint-by-number painting arrived from ebay, scott made a color transparency of it and borrowed a friend’s projector to trace it on the…
painting wood is probably never going to be a non-confrontational topic, so i’ve come to embrace it as something that will almost always be a “love it” or “hate it” sort of situation. for me, the essence of a before & after is giving a piece of furniture a new life- one that means it…
this next set of before & afters is devoted to one of the most humble forms in design: the box. the first makeover takes on a large scale box- a shed, to be precise- and re-imagines it as something entirely more whimsical. d*s reader kelly parkins in australia sent over this shed makeover that belongs…
today’s first makeovers are all about an easy upgrade. normally we think of paint for a simple makeover, but these clever ladies both turned to something even simpler (but just as fun) to change their furniture: fuzzy throws. karen bertelsen of the art of doing stuff mastered the art of recovering a chair in 5…
as i get older, i’ve noticed that i’ve found myself more and more attracted to homes that could be labeled as “country”. growing up, i think i pushed myself as far away from country as humanly possible, in exchange for something far colder and minimal, but as i settle into my own home life, i…
when we decided to move our bedroom to a different room in the house, we no longer had the space for our old bedside tables. i decided to use an old chair because it was narrow enough and it looked pretty good. unfortunately, i lost two important things in the switch: a place for private…
As an apartment dweller, I feel crazied each spring with dreams of having a real proper outdoor garden. Sadly, it isn’t in the cards so I usually redouble my houseplant efforts. Instead of buying new houseplants to feed my addiction, Ipropagate the ones I already have. Pruning stimulates new growth and you end up with…
every easter while we were growing up, we made ukrainian eggs with the help of our mom. we love how beautiful the traditional eggs are, whose patterns are intricate and geometric, but they are truly time consuming! we wanted to use the same great method—drawing over the egg using a kistka, or stylus, filled with…
i love flowers the way i love good food: i like to surround myself with both as often as humanly possible. for me, flowers are the fastest (and prettiest) way to bring life to a room, and they always make my day a little bit happier. so today i’m happy to have sarah brysk cohen…
one of my favorite exhibitors at bklyn designs last year was katie deedy of grow house grow (click here to check out katie in my bklyn designs wrap up video, @2:38). so i was excited to hear from katie yesterday about her latest collection of wallpapers: the naturalist collection. inspired by several “long-forgotten women of…
i always love hearing from jacqueline and george at screech owl design. they have beautiful stationery and furniture designs, two beautiful homes, jacqueline does amazing work at moomah, and they happen to be two of the sweetest people around (click here to listen to them chat with d*s wintern, des). so i was happy to…
It’s safe to say not everyone loves Grey Gardens as much as I do. Some are disgusted by the filth, some are pitying of the Beales, some are just plain bored with the lack of discernible story line, however the rest of us know better. In the 60s and 70s, Jackie Kennedy’s aunt and cousin,…
Richard Saja Now that we’ve examined the history of toile, it’s time to look at modern day versions of this pattern. I have to say that I am totally blown away by the way that designers have been able to make this 240 year-old design feel completely modern. One of my favorite artists, Richard Saja,…
[above: Les Traveaux de la Manufacture (The Activities of the Factory), 1783–84, designed by Jean-Baptiste Huet - 14 different scenes in this fabric depict the copperplate printing process via the Metropolitan Museum of Art] I so loved digging into tartan that I thought it might be fun to look at some other patterns that we…
