Home & Garden

Mixing and Matching

Allow the architectural style of your home to inspire—not constrain—your creativity for mixing and matching your favorite furnishings and decor.

Winter Landscape Stars

Add these winter landscape stars to your planting list for a beautiful display next year.

Your Guide to Planning a Home Remodel

Home remodels are big undertakings that can be daunting, especially if you’ve never planned one before. We talked to local experts for advice to get you started.

Get a Jumpstart on Your Garden

Turn your attention toward a fruitful spring by getting your garden on indoors for an early start.

Saving Space in Cramped Kitchens

How to get a small kitchen to work for you By Carol Brock Making meals requires a lot of “stuff,” which is particularly challenging when all that stuff must stuff into a small kitchen. In cramped kitchens, clever storage is crucial. A good game plan is to “purge a lot, then splurge a little,” […]

Boulder County Holiday Markets

It’s always best to shop local, and this year’s supply-chain delays make it more prudent than ever to do your shopping in person. Here’s a list of holiday markets happening in Boulder County this December: Winter Market Series Wibby Brewing, Longmont Dec. 1, 8, 15, 22 This weekly winter market features a rotating […]

Cozy Up Your Home

By Kate Jonuska When the weather outside turns crisp and cool, we crave all things soft and warm as we prepare to snuggle deeper into our homes. We’ve rounded up some local professionals’ best ideas for how to make everything from your nose to your toes stay fabulously cozy this season. 1. Pretty […]

Looking Ahead: Landscaping Trends for 2022

Whether you’re thinking about planting, paving or practicality, now’s the time to start planning for a new landscape design.

Feature Home: Reaching New Heights

This Boulder couple gathered a team of rock-climbing buddies—who also happen to be building professionals—to expand their home.

Halloween Decorations: Spooky Solutions for a Storage Shortage

How to go all-out on Halloween decor without having to pack the attic afterward.

Admirable Alliums

With so many colors and heights to choose from, alliums are cheerful elements that add wonderful texture to a garden.

Bring the Beauty of Nature Inside

After a long summer, the arrival of cold weather is a bit of a shock. But you can lessen the blow by bringing the beauty of nature inside.

Pocket Parks for Pollinators

Public and residential gardens form a pollinator-friendly urban corridor in the Goss-Grove neighborhood in Boulder.

Autumn Soil Boosters

Prepping garden soil in fall helps prepare it for next spring’s growing season.

Meet Artist Jacque Michelle

Jacque Michelle prefers contemporary colors and creates bold shapes with loose brushstrokes. The results are more expressive than realistic.

The Yellow Barn Farm

Sustainability, biodiversity, community and good food are core priorities at the heart of The Yellow Barn Farm.

A guide to landscape stones for outdoor areas

Red sandstone inserts adorn this concrete paver walkway that winds past granite boulders A Stone’s Throw to a Beautiful Yard By Kate Jonuska While plants demand the bulk of our attention and maintenance in a landscape, stunning yards and gardens are often created from stronger stuff—namely, rocks, stones and pavers. Stones can retain and […]

Old World Modern in a Foothills Forest

European romance graces this custom home that was built to capture wild views By Lisa Truesdale Photos by AliveStudios.com One hot summer afternoon, the owner of a home high above Boulder returned from a vacation to hear curious, unfamiliar noises coming from inside. “I thought it was an intruder,” says the homeowner, who asked that […]