There's still enough time this summer to do a little DIY and build an outdoor shower in your yard.

These pieces are the perfect mix of spooky, chic, elegant, and ethereal.

Craig Winer, senior vice president and co-owner of Garrett Wade, shares the tools he swears by for a successful home garden.

This brand’s latest collection places an emphasis on well-designed furniture that stands up to the elements.

Here’s your chance to scoop up a splendid seashell house by the seashore.

From modern sheds and tiny cabins to detached dwellings, we're spotlighting our favorite small spaces from the Dwell community...

Living green walls may have gotten their start 80 years ago, but they’ve recently become some of the most striking and important...

In the shadow of Denali mountain, amid Alaska’s meadows and icy streams, a former teacher and a four-time Iditarod winner built a...

With its large covered porch and glazed walls, the Beaver Creek Cabin frames the forest like a picture.

Merging material research and the art of industrial design unleashes the possibilities for striking outdoor furniture.

When an outhouse comes to mind, no one really thinks of it as being a particularly nice or good-looking space—but you can prove...

We survey the latest in connected gadgets, from thermostats to toothbrushes.

There are many products in our everyday lives that we simply put up with, never considering that there might be someone out there...

It seems that everyone is vying for a bit of exposed brickwork.

A parable of redesigning the hose reel from the wall out.

If your plants are part of your home’s aesthetic, then the things you use to help them thrive should be, too.

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A weekend always cries for a DIY project.

By painting on the assembly line, German designer Steffen Kehrle turns carpets into canvas.

It’s slotted in a row of brick residences but connects with the outdoors via the screens, glazing at the rear, and a skylight...

A look back through the history of prefab reveals a few failures that proved to be great opportunities for learning and...

Looking for creative ways to incorporate rugs into outdoor spaces that feel otherwise unfinished? These examples will give you...

This was Derek Shapton's first shoot for Dwell and it will certainly not be his last.

Brooklyn's Flavor Paper is hauling dowdy old wallpaper into the splashy 21st century, and you get to watch.

Kazuyo Sejima (just the second woman ever!) and Ryue Nishizawa of the Japanese architecture firm SANAA were awarded the 2010...

The Nomad propane firepits from Tohst Modern Living are a straight-up bright idea.

Taking a calculated turn from tradition, two Czech architects designed a modern rendition of a classic Bohemian home, powered by...

In southwest Poland, architect Robert Konieczny, of KWK Promes, raises the roof—with sod intact—on Jacek Perkowski’s modernist...

Caught in the grip of the worst drought in a century, Australians are showering together.

“Technically it’s a cinch,” Patrick Blanc says, and with a wave of the hand ticks off the ingredients needed to build a plant...

Living small is par for the course in New York City, but accommodating a family of four in under 700 square feet rarely looks as...

From a projector to an effective mosquito management system, here's what you’ll need for all activities al fresco.

In the late winter of 2003, I watched out my window as a fuel truck idled below, belching black smoke.

In our latest Backstory series, Seattleite Lou Maxon recounts the thrills and trials of ditching the suburbs, buying property,...

Hjeltness Restorations is one of those places you have to see to believe.

Dwell hosts a Q&A with Mike Landau, solar water heating program manager for SoCalGas and Nurit Katz, chief sustainability officer...