Here are just a few things we’re noting as we wrap up our Minimalist Summer issue and head into the long weekend.
Above: Photograph by Raphaël Thibodeau, courtesy of L’Abri, from Heritage Meets High Efficiency: A Saltbox Passive House in Québec.
- “Color makes people feel alive”: how one garden designer incorporates “zing.”
- We’re admiring this 1906 firehouse in Pittsfield, Massachusetts that’s newly redone by seven BIPOC designers via The Kaleidoscope Project and opening for tours in August. Book your visit here.
- Remodelista favorite Atelier Vime’s first shop, La Maison Vime, opens today; stop by at 24 Quai du Rhone, Vallabrègues, France.
- Save the date for Very Good & Proper’s summer warehouse sale on Saturday, July 9, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the warehouse in London; more info—and address—here.
- “I’m hoping to go see artist Duke Riley’s work at the Brooklyn Museum: scrimshaw-like drawings on whitewashed beach trash,” Margot reports.
- Browse the Fourth of July sale at Appliances Connection, going on now through July 13, with discounts, special pricing, and two-for-one offers.
- Three quick storage ideas to steal from a waterside kitchen.
- And a post from the Remodelista archives we revisit ever summer: how to employ an unfussy hardware-store find all over the house.
May we recommend:
- A handy bottle-drying rack for beside the sink.
- And introducing Revival’s first bedding collection. (Which hue would you choose?)