I’m counting on more than green tomatoes this year.An unexpected week spent in Sacramento with my family meant my garden went without water for much longer than I had planned. I watered the night before I left, but I’d only meant to be gone for four days. Lots of new plants went in the ground recently, including a not-inexpensive assortment of annuals to fill in beds and my ridiculous amount of pots. I didn’t wish for rain and cool temperatures, but that’s how it turned out. When I got home, everything was alive. In fact, plants looked like they thrived without my over-protectiveness. My potted tomatoes had grown a foot each (no joke). Full Post…

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As little design as possible is a comprehensive monograph on highly influential product designer Dieter Rams (b.1932). As head of design at Braun from 1961 to 1995, Rams created some of the most iconic objects of the twentieth century.

Even if you don’t immediately recognize his name, you have almost certainly used one of the radios, clocks, lighters, juicers, shelves or hundreds of other products he designed. He is famous not only for this vast array of well-formed products, but for his remarkably prescient ideas about the correct function of design in the messy, out-of-control world we inhabit today. T

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Wow. To say that we are fortunate to call illustrator Hannah Alexander a member of the At Home in Arkansas blog team would be an understatement. Hannah illustrated her little heart out for you this month! Here, her marvelous interpretation of a series of rooms featured in Lonny magazineall tied together by the color green.

Get to know Hannah better and check out her adorable blog, Sundry Mumsy!

This months illustration is a quick rendering of my favorite use of green that I came across in Lonny magazine. I love the green curtains in contrast with the dark walls and muted browns.

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Its hard to believe that what you see in front of you is the same structure before and after. This architectural transformation is indeed a brilliant remodeling work, where a crumbling Murcia attic in south-eastern Spain has turned into an ultra modern penthouse apartment and space for displaying the owners personal collection of paintings.

The original layout of the attic space was very closed, with corridors and rooms on both sides. Not to be constrained by strict regulations, a system of habitable bubbles was proposed A durable structure that would cover and break the existing outer walls and blur the boundaries between the inside and the outside.

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