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Remodeling 101: Range vs. Cooktop, Pros and Cons
Leaping (or lurching) into a kitchen remodel? If so, you're likely about to make an important appliance decision: whether to install a range or a cooktop-wall oven combination. The good and bad news is...
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Living in an Architectural Landmark, Seattle Edition
When Alaa Mendili moved from Montreal to Seattle to take a job as a creative director at a digital design studio, he packed lightly, arriving with only two suitcases and an air mattress. During a brief...
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Heritage Camping in Canada, No Hardship Required
Constantin von Flotow is an expert wilderness guide with a penchant for doing things the old-fashioned way, canvas tents and wooden gear boxes included (he tows these by vintage prop plane, horse,...
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Made in Canada: The World's Best Laundry Pulley
Our laundry obsession continues: we recently found a retro-looking outdoor clothesline system at Kiosk made by a family-owned Canadian company in business since 1946. According to the owners of Solar...
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Bestie Currywurst in Vancouver
"No reservations. In life or in our tiny restaurant," reads the sign. But the inventive young team behind Bestie Currywurst—a sausage and beer house in Vancouver's Chinatown—have created a space...
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Happier at Home: 6 Tips for the Ultimate Spring Cleaning
Last month, I finished packing up my household (four humans, one dog) for our move across the Golden Gate Bridge, from San Francisco to Marin County. “We are moving mindfully!” I told my...
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Canadian Cool: Furniture and Accessories from Castor Design Studio
Canadian design company Castor Design Studio ("castor" is French for beaver and is the scientific name for the large tree-loving semi-aquatic rodent) is not only breaking new ground with innovative,...
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Bao Bei Brasserie in Vancouver
Tannis Ling, a former bartender (and daughter of an architect), took a risk when she opened Bao Bei in Vancouver's Chinatown neighborhood in 2010; the area was considered dodgy and a risky dining...
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Trending on Gardenista: The Secret to Year-Round Gardens
This week, the Gardenista crew headed north to learn some insider tips about living in a four-season climate and embracing each season. Looking for the perfect grass substitute? They found that out,...
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Creatives in Canada: Soho House in Toronto
For the past 20 years, Nick Jones of Soho House has been establishing private clubhouses around the world for an elite community of creatives (think film, media, and design-industry heavyweights.) Soho...
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Current Obsessions: May Day
We're wrapping up the week with a look at what's on our radar right now: Above: Our friend Aya Brackett is in Japan for her show "Soiled," on view at two locations in Tokyo: Rocket Gallery in Harajuku,...
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This Week's Table of Contents: The Handywoman
Readers, strap on your tool belts. This week, in honor of Mother's Day, we're embracing the can-do spirit. Above: Have a household project awaiting? Join the tackle-it-yourself crowd. Monday Above:...
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A Scandi Furniture Designer at Home in Paris
Gesa Hansen grew up in a Scandinavian family of carpenters, designers, and architects. The daughter of a German mother and Danish father (both of them furniture designers), she studied graphics at the...
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Domestic Dispatches: Will I Ever Master the Remote?
The only thing I want for Mother's Day is to learn how to turn on the television. I am sick of having to pay a child a dollar to "set me up" every time I want to watch an episode of Girls. We got...
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New Geometry: Quilts Designed by an Architect and a Painter
When longtime friends Eliza Kena and Claire Oswalt set out to modernize the traditional grandmotherly quilt, each brought their own skills to the table: Kena, an architect by training with several...
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The Ultimate DIY Restaurant? Navy in SoHo, New York
Navy is not just another trendy SoHo seafood restaurant. Its formula for success may sounds familiar—a head chef with a cult following; the ability to pack 51 diners into a very small space—but its...
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Serenity Now: A No-Drama Bedroom in Berkeley, CA
Ayelet Waldman and Michael Chabon, Berkeley's first couple of letters, took us on a tour of their recently spruced-up craftsman's cottage not long ago. Today we're deconstructing their calm, no-drama...
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DIY: Repurposing a Vintage Frame
I make an effort to buy as little "new" as possible, and I admit some things are hard to source used. But picture frames? They're a dime a dozen at secondhand stores, and the old wooden ones are far...
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Heirloom Furniture from Egg Collective in Brooklyn
Egg Collective consists of Crystal Ellis, Stephanie Beamer, and Hillary Petrie, three friends who met in college in St. Louis and have reunited in Brooklyn. Post-grad, the trio went their separate...
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Object Lessons: The Sheila Maid Clothes Airer
Think of Great Britain and the first thing that comes to mind after Downton Abbey is rain. And while Downton Abbey is fiction, the frequent rain is fact. Consequently, outdoor clotheslines are less...
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