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A Modular Danish Summer House—with a Six-Month Lead Time
Danish architecture firm Lykke + Nielsen launched a side business designing modular cottages for summer living. Created from a simple modular template, the houses can be ready within six months of...
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DIY: Scented Candles to Repel Insects, Not Humans
Whenever I catch a whiff of citronella, I’m taken back to family camping trips. We had an oily bug repellent in a sticky brown bottle that we’d pass around—usually well after we’d suffered our first...
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A Verdant Bakery in Vienna
Not your typical Viennese pastry shop: The bakery at the Hotel Daniel in Vienna is a greenery-filled oasis in the center of the city. Designed by Atelier Heiss Architects, the interior features a mix...
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Expert Advice: 15 Secrets for Saving Money on a Remodel
When Carolyn Leonhardt and her husband, Ted, sold their Seattle graphic design business more than a decade ago, she had no idea she would find herself in the home design/renovation business. After...
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The Ultimate Backyard Guest Retreat, Sixties Camper Edition
J. Wes Yoder usually refers to the 1962 Shasta camper that sits in his leafy East Nashville backyard as "the camper," but he says that when he's feeling especially Southern, he likes to call it "the...
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Trending on Gardenista: Chasing Fireflies
Wondering how to extend summer? Allow the Gardenista team to fill you in. Above: When the nights turns nippy, there's no need to retreat indoors—just add some sheepskin to your dining setup. Learn how...
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10 Easy Pieces: Outdoor Dining Plates
Let the warm weather continue. These lightweight, hard-wearing wood and enamel plates—the perfect alternative to disposable paper and plastic—stand ready for the beach, picnics, and backyard...
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Aussie Style Invades Brooklyn at Brunswick Cafe
"It's a lovely immigration story," says Alexander Hall, who came to the United States "with nothing" eight years ago. Hall grew up in Melbourne and has worked for more than 20 years in the restaurant...
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Current Obsessions: So Long, Summer
Here's a look at what we're loving lately: Above: A peek inside artists' and makers' toolboxes. Photograph via Design Sponge. For a good laugh: an Athens architect creates several absolutely useless...
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Table of Contents: The Organized Life
The late-summer song of the crickets is reminding us: it's time to get back to school and work. Toward that end, we're devoting this week to getting things at home in order. Above: Labware lines the...
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A Place for Everything: A 900-Square-Foot Loft for a Family of Four
Many of us aspire to an organized life, but for those living in open lofts, it’s the only way to stay sane. Nine hundred square feet for a family of four never seemed so airy and spacious as in this...
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5 Favorites: Space-Saving Stacking Bowls
Spatial efficiency down to the last detail—that's the way we like it. Here are five stackable bowls that will save you kitchen storage space. Look carefully: Some of these designs even have other uses....
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Bed and Beer: The Dogfish Inn on the Delaware Coast
The perfect summer chaser: Brew master Sam Calagione's new boutique hotel, the Dogfish Inn, is set in a former motel on the harbor in Lewes, Delaware, not far from beaches, pretty coastal towns, and...
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Steal This Look: A Well-Organized Closet on a Budget
Last month I moved into an apartment that is just shy of 400 square feet. Its two closets each are a generous seven (or so) square feet, but they fit no more than 20 garments on the existing hanging...
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10 Wall-Mounted Wire Baskets as Storage
Spotted lately: wire baskets with a vintage vibe used as wall storage (in the bath, the kitchen, the nursery, anywhere where clutter collects). Kitchen Above: Create an instant pantry with wall-mounted...
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High/Low: Portable Laptop Stand
Two adjustable laptop stands at different ends of the price spectrum (one is pretty enough to be on permanent display). Above: Erin Strater, a Pratt Institute grad, came up with the idea for Plunk, her...
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For the Up-to-Date Office: 10 LED Suspension Lights
Looking to upgrade your office overhead lighting? By replacing fluorescent bulbs with LEDs, you're assured 50,000 lifetime hours of light—no need to change a bulb for five years—and you'll save on...
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Object Lessons: The Indispensable Desk Stapler
Before the advent of the stapler, documents were held together with thread, string, ribbons, and, in the case of legal documents, red tape. In 1879, American inventor George McGill came up with the...
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10 Easy Pieces: Desks for Small Spaces
Those of us with laptops work at our kitchen tables, in bed, on trains, and all points in between. But having a desk to call one's own is a Pavlovian thing: It allows the real creativity to happen. For...
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Fill in the Blank: A Floating Cabin in France
In the empty space between two houses in Gentilly, a southern suburb of Paris on the IIe-de-France, NeM Architectes inserted that magical extra room we all dream of. The original dwelling is on a...
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