A driveway gate is the largest moving object most people will ever install at home. It weighs a great deal, it operates several times a day, every day, for years, and when it fails it fails in the most inconvenient way possible — usually with a car on the wrong side of it. Which is […]
Driveway and Garage Gates: What to Know Before You Automate Read More »
There is a particular kind of failure that happens in outdoor spaces: the yard that is one undifferentiated area. Everything happens in the same place, or rather, nothing does. There is no sense of arriving anywhere, no reason to move from one part to another, no corner that feels like a corner. It is a
Breeze Blocks and the Art of Dividing Space Read More »
A gate is the handshake of a property. It is the first thing every visitor touches, the thing seen a hundred times a week from the street, and — almost universally — the last item on the budget. Which is how so many beautiful houses end up behind a gate that has gone chalky, warped,
Gates: Aluminum vs Wood vs Synthetic Read More »
Scroll through any design feed right now and you’ll see it: warm clay-colored walls, hand-made floor tiles, enormous rustic pots holding a single olive tree. Terracotta — literally “baked earth” — is the color and the material of the moment. Which is funny, because it’s also one of the oldest materials humans have ever used
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