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Step Inside a Mid-Century Modern Home Full of Color

This article originally appeared on Schoolhouse, a Portland-based company in the Food52 family of brands .

Originally built in 1959, this mid-century gem embodies the essence of warmth, comfort, and modern elegance, making it the ideal backdrop for…

This article originally appeared on Schoolhouse, a Portland-based company in the Food52 family of brands .

Originally built in 1959, this mid-century gem embodies the essence of warmth, comfort, and modern elegance, making it the ideal backdrop for our recent color expansion and latest color-focused designs.

This Creative Director’s Home Plays With Symmetry, Scale & Color in Unexpected Ways

This article originally appeared on Schoolhouse, a Portland-based company in the Food52 family of brands.

Playful, unpretentious, aspirational, inspiring, and brilliantly down-to-earth—stepping into Creative Director Joanna Bean Martin’s home is lik…

This article originally appeared on Schoolhouse, a Portland-based company in the Food52 family of brands.

Playful, unpretentious, aspirational, inspiring, and brilliantly down-to-earth—stepping into Creative Director Joanna Bean Martin’s home is like experiencing all of the best parts of an art museum. Colorful and light-filled, her 3,000-square-foot dwelling is full of fun details and bold design choices that play with scale and symmetry in unexpected ways. Scroll below to be smitten by her style and space while simultaneously getting a lesson on the modern use of color.

Step Inside a 1968 Saltbox-Style Home That Seamlessly Blends Old & New

This article originally appeared on Schoolhouse, a Portland-based company in the Food52 family of brands.

Set in the serene landscape of Bloomfield Hills, Mich. sits Jenna and Brandon Curry’s picturesque dwelling. Filled with natural textures, clean…

This article originally appeared on Schoolhouse, a Portland-based company in the Food52 family of brands.

Set in the serene landscape of Bloomfield Hills, Mich. sits Jenna and Brandon Curry's picturesque dwelling. Filled with natural textures, clean lines, and a serene color palette, their 1968 saltbox-style home is full of architectural details and modern updates that seamlessly mix old and new.

Cookbook Author Hetty McKinnon on the Pieces That Bring Joy to Her Home

Welcome to The Collectivist, where we share some of the many meaningful ways in which people live with their favorite objects and tell the stories behind them. In this edition, we visited Hetty Lui McKinnon—New York Times Cooking recipe developer and …

Welcome to The Collectivist, where we share some of the many meaningful ways in which people live with their favorite objects and tell the stories behind them. In this edition, we visited Hetty Lui McKinnon—New York Times Cooking recipe developer and author of the delightful new cookbook, Tenderheart: A Cookbook About Vegetables and Unbreakable Bonds—in Brooklyn, where she lives with her husband and three children.

If you ask Hetty Lui McKinnon, she would describe her home as maximal-minimalist. “I’m not really a minimalist,” she clarifies. “But I like the idea of it.” Because the family’s pandemic-find apartment is small, the Australian-born author has hidden most of her stuff, making an exception for plants, her international collection of ceramics (for prop styling and eating), and a few choice vignettes.

Inside Sarah Radcliffe’s Bright, Light-Filled Portland Home

This article originally appeared on Schoolhouse, a Portland-based company in the Food52 family of brands.

Inspiration can be elusive—a shape-shifting ideal that ebbs and flows depending on the season. On the flip side, it also brings clarity. It sho…

This article originally appeared on Schoolhouse, a Portland-based company in the Food52 family of brands.

Inspiration can be elusive—a shape-shifting ideal that ebbs and flows depending on the season. On the flip side, it also brings clarity. It shows us where we're coming from, what we’re dreaming of, and leads us to where we want to be. For London-born Sarah Radcliffe, inspiration led her to start The Yo Store: a Portland-based shop filled to the brim with beautiful and impeccably designed kid's, women's, and home goods from small independent makers around the globe.

A Peek Into Mollie Katzen’s Fairytale Home

With zucchini feta pancakes, mushroom strudel, and handwritten instructions on how to carve a fruit salad—complete with doodles and line drawings—Mollie Katzen taught generations of vegetarians not just how to feed themselves, but how to do it in varied, global, and fascinating fashion. The first edition of the Moosewood Cookbook came out in 1974, and has since been considered one of the best (and best-selling) cookbooks ever. Now, as she sells her longtime Bay Area home, the public gets a glimpse of the stunning kitchen, studio, and garden from which she produced, wrote, tested, and illustrated a dozen best-selling cookbooks.

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Katzen's sprawling house and garden served as both office and inspiration for almost 40 years as she wrote, tested, and illustrated her cookbooks — Katzen’s sprawling house and garden served as both office and inspiration for almost 40 years as she wrote, tested, and illustrated her cookbooks

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Though the book came out of the New York-based Moosewood Collective, Katzen herself used the money she earned on it to move to California, buying a house just outside of Berkley in 1983. For almost 40 years, Katzen grew her own Enchanted Broccoli Forest, an herb and vegetable garden just outside her kitchen, with a farm table at the center. Paths wander among the charming plants and mature fruit trees, leading into the kitchen where she found inspiration for so many recipes.

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Opinel Hand Pruning Shears $59

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Garden Glory Swedish Garden Hose & Nozzle $158–$218

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An 1890s Farmhouse Gets a Purposefully Slow Rebuild

Welcome to Real-Life Renos, where we’re pulling back the curtains to the home renos we just can’t get enough of. Tag along as our favorite designers, chefs, and cookbook authors welcome us inside their spaces and share the behind-the-scenes stories beh…

Welcome to Real-Life Renos, where we’re pulling back the curtains to the home renos we just can’t get enough of. Tag along as our favorite designers, chefs, and cookbook authors welcome us inside their spaces and share the behind-the-scenes stories behind their transformations. We’ll explore their takes on sustainable living, how they express their identities through design, how they create beautiful spaces that center around accessibility—and so much more.

At the height of the pandemic last year, my partner Casey and I bought a second home. We had always dreamt of owning a place we could escape to on the weekends, as so many in the city long to do. We began our search just prior to the outbreak of COVID.

Inside Our Design Resident’s Inviting New Upholstery Studio

For years I’ve had very clear ideas around what my dream studio should look like: bright with lots of sunlight, floor-to-ceiling windows, wood-beam ceilings, and plenty of storage space for all the chairs that I find in secondhand and antique shops—and…

Moving back to my hometown Minneapolis (from DC) last year offered me the opportunity to find exactly that kind of space. But once I found it, the question was: How does one furnish a studio space without breaking the bank, and while also maximizing space and design? Having worked out of three separate (upholstery) studios throughout my career, I have learned a few tricks on what to do—and what not to. Maybe you could use some of these ideas in your own workspace?

A Soulful 1940s Cottage Gets Dressed for the Season

Home for the Holidays is a special series featuring our favorite food and home experts and their diverse homes—and holidays—from around the world. From Los Angeles to Mumbai and Hong Kong, we get a peek at how each family approaches the most special o…

Home for the Holidays is a special series featuring our favorite food and home experts and their diverse homes—and holidays—from around the world. From Los Angeles to Mumbai and Hong Kong, we get a peek at how each family approaches the most special of seasons—in a way that’s uniquely theirs.

“Slowly but surely, we are transitioning our home back to a more soulful cottage,” says Kennesha Poe-Buycks. “We want it to be high on cozy vibes, and eventually, low on builder and flipper-grade finishes.”

A California-Cool Hanukkah, Celebrated Outdoors

Artist Julia Sherman writes cookbooks that are unlike others. For her first book, Salad for President, Sherman visited artists in their homes, interviewing and photographing them as they make her a salad. In her latest, Arty Parties: An Entertaining Co…

Artist Julia Sherman writes cookbooks that are unlike others. For her first book, Salad for President, Sherman visited artists in their homes, interviewing and photographing them as they make her a salad. In her latest, Arty Parties: An Entertaining Cookbook, Sherman talks to artists about their favorite gatherings and pairs them with her own recipes for food that are “easy to scale, affordable, and designed to be prepped ahead and then served in the moment.” So it should come as no surprise that the artist’s touch is visible at her own low-key yet gorgeous Hanukkah gathering.

Setting the Scene

Sherman and her husband Adam Katz live in a mid-century home designed by architect Boyd Georgi in Pasadena, California. Two years ago, the couple finished a full renovation of the house with architect Emily Farnham and a major landscape overhaul by Terremoto that includes a vegetable garden in the front yard, a fruit orchard in the back, a babbling brook, and an A-frame studio perched above the orchard. The house’s expansive deck connects to the back garden via a bridge. It’s basically a California daydream.