Want to put your hardworking herbs to yet another use? Making herbal oil is just the thing to try! Infusing herbs from your garden in oil will help extract all those helpful properties of each herb. You’ll be left with a powerful…
Text by Holly Seng
Built in 1814 and listed with the National Register of Historic Places, it’s no surprise that interior designer Whitney Talsma’s Federal-style farmhouse offers a rich, storied past. However, what drew the founder of Oliver James Interiors and her…
Wine barrels are the ultimate planter. Made of wood, they add a rustic and homey look to your container garden and can hold a lot of plants. Due to their large size and the amount of soil they hold, you can grow…
Small gardens need clever and innovative design, from judicious lighting to plant-led solutions for making spaces more cohesive and, in town and cities, more private. Here are a few of our favorite ideas to steal from the compact gardens nominated for prizes…
The gardeners featured in Pastoral Gardens, a weighty new compendium that has been self-published by photographer Andrew Montgomery and garden editor Clare Foster, are mainly British. But when the pair crossed the Atlantic to document several East Coast landscapes designed by European…
Adding a used hot tub to my backyard design was the best choice I made this year. There are so many hot tub benefits to consider, the biggest of which is pain management. My hot tub gave me my mobility, energy, and,…
For her first solo hotel project, interior architect and Auguri Studio founder Giovanna de Bosredon reimagined two 1970s buildings in Paris’s creative 18th arrondissement. The newly-minted Hôtel Dalila takes its aesthetic cues from the rustic roots of the surrounding Montmartre neighborhood, which…
One winter, around the time I was tinkering again with recipes for fragrant fir needles, I received a gift of beautifully packaged pistachios. The nuts were tiny and perfect, grown in Afghanistan. The trees—Pistacia vera—are native to the Middle East, Asia Minor,…
Situated in Lake Forest and priced at $2,699,900, this 6,575 sq. ft. home combines modern updates with timeless design on a 1.5-acre property. Featuring 6 bedrooms and 7 baths, the residence offers a light-filled layout ideal for both relaxation and entertaining. Highlights…