In the first decade of America’s post-war boom, a million and a half new houses were built, creating vast tracts of suburbia and giving young families their first…
Read more Before & After: A 1940s-Suburban House Grows Up Gracefully in Mill Valley, CA – GardenistaWhen Jane Orvis and Steve Hanson bought their 1950s house in Seward Park, Seattle, they kept the original pink-tiled bathroom. But what about the mid-century shrubbery, arranged around…
Read more Before & After: Should It Stay or Should It Go? In Praise of Inherited Plants (And Soil, And Concrete) – GardenistaAll week, we’re republishing some of our favorite Garden Visits that have a personal connection to our writers. No public gardens here, no vast estates, no professionally designed…
Read more Homeward Bound: My Childhood Connecticut, Only Better, at Dirt Road Farm – GardenistaRecently we spotted a project on The Modern House that compelled us to stop our scroll and investigate deeper: a home that looks otherworldly and not of this…
Read more Gail Pirkis’ Grass-Topped Home in Dartmoor: A Green (Literally) Building that Fades Into the BackgroundVenmo, dishwashers, those Instagram filters that give tired faces a glow-up—we can all agree our world has benefited from progress. But some things don’t need to be improved…
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