Last fall, I (Chantal) moved to a new place. It's in LA's no-longer-so-hidden gem of Atwater Village, which Barbara Bestor in Bohemian Modern calls "a funny little flat neighborhood just across from Silver Lake." My place has a garden out back with four lofty camellia trees, a...
Here’s something you may already know: Window boxes can be expensive! Not only that, but finding a high-quality (i.e. rot-resistant), perfectly sized window box for your small indoor or outdoor space may be a bigger challenge than actually growing the plants. When we first set...
Hosted every fall in New York by Better Homes & Gardens, the Stylemaker conference brings together lifestyle bloggers, Instagrammers, photographers, writers, consultants and other creative types from around the world. True to form, it was a day packed with illuminating talks and crowd-pleasing dishes. And...
That sound you hear? That's our very loud sigh of relief as we wrap up edits on our very. First. Book. Published by Clarkson Potter (also home to Ina Garten, Martha Stewart, and David Chang, and an imprint of Penguin Random House), How to Window...
Confession: Ryan and I attended the San Diego Succulent & Cactus Show & Sale, but we ended up completely missing the show. Why? Because we were busy buying every succulent in sight. We were not alone. Up and down the ten or so aisles under a dedicated tent in Balboa Park,...
Gardening guides that are both comprehensive and portable — soup-to-nuts minus the Googling around — can be hard to come by. That's why we're holding on tight to Green Side Up, the new magazine from Meredith geared to gardeners starting out. Whether you're tending a balcony, rambling yard or a...
If this wasn't our first time using power tools in front of an audience...
Lately we've been shooting less with our big camera and more with our smartphones. I've even recently photographed entire blog posts without breaking out the DSLR — something I wouldn't have dreamed of even two years ago. Today, the rear camera on the iPhone 6s shoots...
When we first set out to build our vertical clay pot garden for Whole Foods Market, we half-jokingly said we'd take it on a world tour, starting with the balconies of our friends Jill and Tim. Well, we had no idea the places our pots would...
If you're in the Northern Hemisphere, chances are spring is making itself known in all its bold, sneaky, fragrant ways. Your lilacs are jamming. The daylilies are on deck. You can almost taste the tomatoes! But...