Current Obsessions: Summer, Slower
On our minds this first weekend of August? Limited-edition woven baskets, reasons to add stripes to your interiors, an appealing DIY light, and more. Read on:
Above: Pale floors, shiplap walls, and a writing spot: inspiration for an August weekend. Photograph by Alexandra Ribar from Hygge in Ohio: An Architect’s Scandi-Inspired Off-the-Grid Hut.
- “I always carry a basket in summer and love these leather handled totes, a clever twist on tradition,” writes Margot.
- Inside a French artist’s “reference library of brushes and brushstrokes”.
- Reports Annie: “Winter me wouldn’t go for these sheets, but summer me is enamored.”
- Quilts, quilts, quilts. Which would you drape over your bed?
- Summer sink inspiration.
- Tips from a real estate stylist, stripes, books, and color editions.
- And “things I would buy in Ikea as an architect” (hat tip: Margot).
- Summer of shells!
- Time to get a houseboat? We’re enamored by this one on Lake Tisza in Hungary.
- Weekend project: DIY puffer fish light.
- Floral arrangement inspo, summer edition (hat tip: Annie).
- ORCA debuted an ingenious new finish for garden walls that adds texture and character (hat tip: Laura).
- Have you heard of a “garden residency“? What a great idea!
- Insanely beautiful stonework.
- Mainers, mark your calendars: Wild Seed Project’s annual Native Plant Sale, featuring 100+ species of seed-grown native plants, will be held September 12 (for members) and September 13 (for the public).
- On Fan’s bucket list: forest bathing at this mountain retreat in China.
- So many good gardening hacks here.
- And we’re revisiting Gardenista founder Michelle Slatalla’s post on how she created her lovely backyard garden with a $250 budget.
