A pansy can go from seed to flower in nine weeks, which tells you something about its eagerness to please.

Viola × wittrockiana is not a complainer. Every spring, we notice cheery clumps of pansies that have shown the initiative to sow themselves in the unlikeliest spots: in sidewalk cracks, alongside curbs, or tucked into the edge of flower beds otherwise reserved for something grander. Here are a few of our favorite sightings.

Above: A bunch of johnny jump-ups is perfectly content to fill a hole in a wall of graffiti. Image via The Pothole Gardener.

Above: Pansies are one of the few flowers that seem equally happy to be described as perennials, annuals, and biennials. It wouldn't surprise anyone to see a new clump pop up, next spring, in a crack on the stairs. Image via The Pothole Gardener.

Above: Pansies beautifying a patio crack in Salt Lake City. Image via Blurbomat.

Above: Volunteers grow in a tree stump. Image via Pinecones and Roses.

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Above: There are at least 500 varieties of pansy hybrids, many of which descend from the yellow Viola lutea (shown above). Image via the Wildflower Society.

Above: The other parent of many modern varieties is Viola altaica (shown above). For pansies like those grown in the 19th century, try the Historic Pansies Mix, $2.75 for a packet of 50 seeds from Seed Savers Exchange. Image via The Rainforest Fund Project.

Ten favorite, highly versatile clip lights, ranging from industrial hardware-store versions to more refined takes.

Above: By Paris-based Tse & Tse, the Cornet Clip Lamp has a glazed porcelain shade; $205 at Horne.

Above: BTC Original Hector Small Dome Clip-On Light with translucent bone-china shade and cotton braided flex cord; $155 at Horne.

Above: Artemide's modern classic, the Tolomeo Clip Spot Light in anodized matte aluminum; $170 at Y Lighting.

Above: From Italy, the Lumina Naomi Pinza Clip Light is finished in aluminum; $230.85 at Search Lighting.

Above: Rockett St. George's Retro Metal Clip-On Light has a wood base; £79.

Above: Reminiscent of the beloved Jielde Lamp, the Hi-Light Clip Light is available in four colors as well as brushed nickel; $39 at PB Teen.

Above: Black Gooseneck Clip Lamp (also in white or chrome); $30.99 at Lamps Plus.

Above: Instead of a flashlight under the covers, my kids use the Fas Clamp Spotlight for bedtime reading; $9.99 at Ikea.

Above: Fluker's Clamp Lamp; $9.97 at Petco.

Above: For a loft space that we turned into my husband's office, we used Designers Edge Clamp Lights clipped to the ceiling rafters; $8.97 at Home Depot.

Above: For a tool-shop vibe, consider the Designers Edge Incandescent Cage Clamp Light; $14.99 at Hayneedle.

N.B.: This post is an update; the original story ran on July 14, 2010.

Architect Takeshi Hosaka created a house that is fittingly named Outside In; it is a very modern expression of the traditional Japanese ideal of having a harmonious relationship with nature.

Hosaka’s clients, a couple and their three children, wanted to integrate nature into their one-story home in Yamanashi, Japan. The architect designed a saw-toothed roof created by concrete V-beams, resulting in one big space that is divided into a series of zones that progress naturally from public to private. The communal spaces open to the outdoors through a wall of glass sliders, while the rest of the house receives natural light through the skylights at the peaks of the V-beams, heightening the drama of the changing light throughout the day.

Photography by Koji Fujii/Nacasa & Partners Inc.

Above: The house features board-formed concrete.

Above: The garden has been brought into the house.

Above: Entering through skylights, the light changes throughout the day.

Above: The kitchen's spare forms have a sculptural simplicity.

Above: The bedrooms are organized like bunks.

Above: The continuous space, unbroken by dividing walls, allows a view of the garden from the back bedrooms.

Above: A view of the saw-toothed roof from the outside.

Years ago, I lived in a rental apartment with an unappealingly brick fireplace surround; after checking with the landlord (or did I?), I painted it glossy white. Here's a roundup of springlike rooms with brick walls painted white, neatly solving the orangey-brick issue.

Above: A vignette from Ngoc Minh Ngo's new book, Bringing Nature Home.

Above: A wall detail from the interior of the Northern Spy Food Co. in NYC, designed by Made by Two.

Above: A beer garden featuring white tables and white brick walls at a house in Hove via Light Locations.

Above: Indoor brick walls are painted white in Hitoshi Uchida's home in Japan via The Selby.

Above: An outdoor deck in the studio of Marie Mees. Photograph by Van Leuven Bart for Office for Word and Image.

Above: Bricks undergo a single wash of white paint from Designer Visit: Paula Leen Studio in Holland.

Above: White-painted brick walls in the bathroom from Steal This Look: White Australian Bath.

Above: White bricks provide a clean backdrop for Isaac Yu Chen's coat rack from ICFF Report: Cranbrook Academy.

When I recently started working full-time in a publishing company's midtown Manhattan office, the boss joked I should make myself at home and bring in a plant.

I reported to work with a fern in a terracotta pot and realized I was going to fit right in; my house plant joined three dozen other plants in the office. The effect is lush and uplifting. To achieve a similar look, consider these suggestions.

Above: Potted plants not only brighten any office, they also naturally freshen the air. Image via Home Designing.

Above: Try grouping a trio of simple white Mini Rose Garden Pots from Guy Wolff Garden Pottery ($7.50 each at the Garden Gates) that all contain the same variety of dwarf bamboo, such as Pleioblastus distichus 'Mini' or Pleioblastus pygmaeus, both available from Bamboo Garden.

Above: Office Plant No. 37: I brought in a lemon button fern to adorn my own desk. My Nephrolepis cordifolia 'Duffi' now lives next to a succulent and a money tree. Image via Cry Leaf.

When I recently started working full-time in a publishing company's midtown Manhattan office, the boss joked I should make myself at home and bring in a plant.

I reported to work with a fern in a terracotta pot and realized I was going to fit right in; my house plant joined three dozen other plants in the office. The effect is lush and uplifting. To achieve a similar look, consider these suggestions.

Above: Potted plants not only brighten any office, they also naturally freshen the air. Image via Home Designing.

Above: Try grouping a trio of simple white Mini Rose Garden Pots from Guy Wolff Garden Pottery ($7.50 each at the Garden Gates) that all contain the same variety of dwarf bamboo, such as Pleioblastus distichus 'Mini' or Pleioblastus pygmaeus, both available from Bamboo Garden.

Above: Office Plant No. 37: I brought in a lemon button fern to adorn my own desk. My Nephrolepis cordifolia 'Duffi' now lives next to a succulent and a money tree. Image via Cry Leaf.

Leah Singh claims two equally vibrant cities in far-flung corners of the world as home; designing from both New York and Delhi, her home accessories line mixes traditional Indian artistry with modern lines.

A graduate of the Parsons School of Design, Singh is inspired by the urban grid of New York. Her line of Mia Pillows combines vibrant machine-embroidered shapes with the delicate tracery of hand-stitching, traditional kantha embroidery done by women artisans of West Bengal. Working with artisans throughout India directly, Singh hopes to "rejuvenate the age-old traditional crafts by finding new applications as well as combinations of colors, materials, and patterns that are not typically used." To purchase, consult the company's list of retailers.

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When Remodelista's New York editors started working in a shared office space, they decided to give the neglected entry a much-needed makeover. For help, we summoned Johnne Eschleman, resident artist at the nearby Ace Hotel New York, whose specialty is turning discarded dictionaries, encylopedia, and other books into wallpaper.

Eschelman, who is from Portland, Oregon, "has a good eye for straight lines and lyrics unfurling backwards," as the Ace Hotel says. For our entryway project, Eschleman repurposed a vintage illustrated dictionary with a broken spine and used a simple wheat paste to affix the pages to the wall, creating endless possibilities for perusing.

"It's more interesting to me to create one-of-a-kind things that couldn't be anywhere else," he says. "I want to create art that people are engaged with all the time, and in the process, leave as small a footprint as possible."

Watch Johnne in action below (and see the finished results) in the video "Finding Beauty in Everyday Objects for the Future."

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Every gardener has a problem. Yours may be a deep pool of shade where nothing blooms. Or a slope that washes away after every heavy rain. Or an old oak tree with roots that have spread, like varicose veins. Mine is deer.

At night, I lie awake and imagine I hear incessant chomping. After they finish off the roses, what will the deer do next—send out for pizza?

"I'm a little obsessed," I admitted the other day to Kathleen Brenzel, the editor of The New Sunset Western Garden Book, the encyclopedic ninth edition of a guide that gardeners in the western United States have revered since its earliest incarnation as a pamphlet, in 1932.

"If deer are eating everything you own, try something they don't like," Brenzel said. "There are some suggestions in the book."

So there are. In fact, in addition to a list of nearly 250 plants deer dislike to eat, Sunset's new 768-page edition devotes a full 30 pages to plants that solve a variety of specific problems in the garden. They're not the latest hybrids, but rather basic plants that are useful in temperate climates to both novices (who may find them new) and to experienced gardeners (who may be happy for any distraction from that insatiable chomping sound). Here's are some old friends Sunset recommends.

Above: Thwart the deer. It is a truly bizarre thing about deer that they shy from eating magnolias, because the buds on Magnolia x. soulangeana look delicious even to me. A Saucer Magnolia will grow as tall as 25 feet; it's a lovely tree to anchor a garden; $12 through the Arbor Day Foundation. Image via Saipua.

Above: Brighten a shady spot. Lady's Mantle has a nice lobed leaf, forms compact mounds, and sends out stalks of yellow blooms that are "attractive as a frothy mass," according to Sunset; $6.29 at Broadway Gardens. Pair Alchemilla mollis with Hosta beneath leggy shrubs. Photograph by Chris Waits via Flickr.

Above: Cover a shady corner without spending a fortune. Clumps of Hosta will send up spikes of flowers each summer and spread quickly; split the roots with a sharp spade to double the coverage. Hosta 'Saint Paul'; $11.99 through Amazon. Image via Sunset.

Above: Anchor a flowerbed with a rose that blooms all summer. Other flowers come and go; a shrub like Rosa 'Molineux' has a long blooming season and is disease-resistant; $23.95 at David Austin Roses. Photograph by Jim W. via Flickr.

Above: Avoid costly annuals with a perfumed perennial. Although a mature Heliotropium arborescens may achieve a height of 4 feet, according to Sunset, Heliotrope's greatest value is as a fragrant bedding plant; $3.50 at Garden Harvest Supply. Image via Wood Elf Gardener.

Above: Block the neighbors. Or create structure amid the chaos. Even if the rest of your garden has clumps of everything you love plopped willy-nilly in the dirt next to each other, a boxwood hedge will lend an instant air of order and propriety. Buxus sempervirens, otherwise known as common boxwood, will achieve heights of up to 20 feet, if you crave privacy; $17.95 for 1-gallon-container plants at Amazon. Image via Sunset.

Above: Stop erosion on a slope. Snowberry will grow happily on a steep hillside and will flower in spring or early summer; $16.99 from ShrubSource. Image via Old Blue Crow.

Above: Consider a groundcover that won't gobble up space. Such cranesbills as Geraniaceae 'Johnson's Blue,' will spread via rhizomes through the garden, but always politely; $7 at Geraniaceae.com. You need not fear they will choke everything in their path. Image via Sunset.

Above: Cover a bare spot under a tree. Periwinkle will thrive where lesser groundcovers fail. Don't waste it on a sunny spot; turn it loose in shade under that old oak in the corner of the backyard. As a groundcover, Vinca Minor is typically sold in bulk; 50 plants for $29.95 at Greenwood Nursery. Image via Sunset.

Above: Withstand wind. Privet doesn't get enough credit. Although often dismissed as a common hedge shrub, it also deserves credit for its ability to protect more tender garden plants from being damaged by high winds. Waxleaf Privet in a 5-gallon container; $44.98 at Amazon. Image by Mary Richmond via Flickr.

Above: The ninth edition of Sunset's guide, The New Sunset Western Garden Book is the first to feature color photos of thousands of plants; $20.80 at Amazon.

In a former life, the Hastings Observer building housed the offices of a newspaper (among other things). Now it's a gathering place for style-oriented residents of the seaside town.

Owners Lorna Lloyd and Bryan Dyke (a ceramist and a film editor, respectively) saw the potential of the dilapidated building and purchased it in 2009. Today, they operate the Printworks Bed & Breakfast on the building's top floor; eventually, the couple hopes the building will house a shop, a bed and breakfast, as well as studio space for artists.

Photography by David Merewether.

Above: The Venetian Gothic building dates from 1879.

Above: Lloyd and Dyke bought the radiators from a reclamation yard and had them conditioned and painted in ivory. Lloyd made the drapes out of lightweight canvas painter's cloth.

Above: The walls were stripped back to reveal the blues and greens of various paint jobs over the original lime plaster. A water tank from the attic now serves as a planter in the indoor garden.

Above: The large cherry table and mirror are paired in the same way they were in the last Lloyd/Dyke home to create "continuity for us as a family," says Lloyd.

Above: The former factory lighting is from Hastings antique dealer Myerscough & Mairs.

Above: In the Caxton bedroom, floors are painted in Farrow & Ball Pointing.

Above: The simply outfitted Guttenberg guest bath.

Above: The couple stripped the galvanized stair treads.

Above: The living room is a mashup of wares from several centuries; the beech floor is a legacy of a former dance studio.

Above: A French fin-de-siècle sofa.

Above: "Everything we have done has been about restoring the building to its original condition, and we wanted to leave ‘vistas’ of its original purpose," says Lloyd. On the back wall, the pink painted line represents the roof of a lean-to brick building that once abutted the house. Lloyd and Dyke chose dark green paint for everything above the line.

Above: Teacups stacked against 130-year-old brick.

Above: "We left these lovely pieces of memorabilia throughout the building," says Lloyd.

Above: Lloyd bought these posters from the Guggenheim in the 1990s and hung them to offset the original green and brown paint on the facing wall. The gray plaster was required to stabilize the wall, and Lloyd intends to stain it eventually—in due time.

Above: In the bathroom of the Caxton Suite, the white bowl on the mantle is by Lloyd, an accomplished ceramist; the geometric painted vase is by Roz Katz. The floor paint is Farrow & Ball Almost Black.

If anyone knows how to make domesticity interesting, it's Alastair Hendy, the British chef and photographer. His new Home Store in Hastings, East Sussex, mixes a dash of history with a bit of theater—offering a mix of old and new utilitarian objects.

A design impresario, Hendy's resume includes: Theater and costume designer at Central St. Martins; display manager at Habitat; chef for Antonio Carluccio; cookbook author; and well-known food and lifestyle photographer. His interests converge at Hendy's Home Store, where he sells vintage tableware, brooms of every kind, candles, sinks, garden tools, and even some sensible furniture. On the weekends when he's is down from London, the shop is also a restaurant, where Hendy serves up simple plates of fresh-off-the-boat seafood. “I am not an ornament person," he says. "I like practical things, such as scissors, brushes, and string. My mum was a collector, and my grandfather—well, his life was held up by string; bailer’s twine held his coat together. It’s in my blood.”

Above: The store is housed in a three-story Georgian townhouse, which started life in 1823 as a soda-bottling shop. The restoration of the building took three years.

Above: Hendy has been collecting the wares over the past decade.

Above: Hendy's Home Store is modeled on a traditional department store; selling a little bit of everything.

Above: The proprietor's experience in shop displays is evident.

Above: A full set of Woods Beryl Ware: "A pale green tea china that would befriend a rock cake or a shortbread slice," says Hendy.

Above: Ceramic milk pitchers with bold graphics.

Above: A range of household objects on display in wooden bins.

Above: Sensible furnishings like sinks and lamps are also available for purchase.

Above: Spools of thread with their original packaging.

Above: A vintage desk lamp along with rustic linens.

Above: Glass cleaning cloths hang from a drying hanger.

Above: The brooms and brushes range from ostrich feather dusters and goat’s-hair parquet-floor brooms to copper-wire barbecue scrubbers and horsehair cobweb brooms.

Above: Seafood fresh-off-the-boat is available on the weekends.

Above: The store label is reminiscent of tea bags.

An outdoor table should be simple and well-proportioned, blending into a landscape rather than fighting it for attention.

There's also something particularly accommodating about a round table; it's forgiving if you need to pull up one more chair at the last minute. Here are ten favorites; the tables below are designed to seat four people and come with a hole for an umbrella, unless otherwise noted.

Above: Munder-Skiles' collection of custom garden furniture includes 145 graceful designs in both wood and metal, in styles that range from historical to modern. The company's showroom is located an hour's drive north of New York City. For pricing, contact Munder-Skiles.

Above: The Mendocino Round Folding Dining Table is constructed of eucalyptus stained gray; on sale for $179 at Crate and Barrel.

Above: The Dexter Dining Table, which expands into an oval to seat six, is made from sustainably harvested wood; $499 at West Elm.

Above: The substantial teak Windsor Circular Dining Table is made by British company Barlow Tyrie and seats six to eight; $1,499 at Didrik's.

Above: The Langton Oval Table seats from six to eight; it's $1,920 at Tectona.

Above: From the Smith & Hawken collection, the Brooks Island Dining Table is made from sustainably harvested Javanese mahogany and seats six; $261.75 at Target.

Above: The Leagrave Round Dining Table in teak is $1,245 at Restoration Hardware.

Above: The Mariposa Dining Table, by San Francisco designer Ted Boerner for Henry Hall Designs, is made of sustainably harvested teak and comes in two sizes; available to the trade.

Above: The Newcastle Round Table has a dark-green powder-coated steel frame and a wood top; it's on sale for $299.99 at Williams Sonoma.

You may be familiar with the iconic Eames office chair, but you probably don't know the whole story.

Charles and Ray Eames designed the original Aluminum Group Chair for the terrace of a private residence, which Herman Miller then turned into the iconic office chair, which has gone through countless iterations and imitators. It was recently re-released by Herman Miller to serve its original purpose: as high-quality outdoor seating, unlike anything else on the market (still true today as it was in 1958).

Above: In the 1950s, aluminum was a newly affordable material and the slung mesh seat was a technological innovation.

Above: The complete set, shown with the Luau Portable Lamp ($198).

Above: Available in graphite or white, the Aluminum Group Lounge Chair is $2,147 at Design Within Reach.

Above: The chair has a matching Aluminum Group Ottoman; $1,007.

Above: The Eames' 1950 Wire-Base Table has been reintroduced for outdoor use with a powder-coated frame and stone top; the Outdoor Wire-Base Table starts at $1,528 at Design Within Reach.

Above: A detail of the Outdoor Wire-Base Table.

Perhaps the ultimate luxury: a designated sink area for tending to the needs of household plants and arranging flowers.

Above: A gardening sink in Sweden by Agnetta Enzell.

Above: A sink used for floral arranging; photo via House Beautiful.

Above: A gardening sink at Terrain, outside Philadelphia.

Above: As usual, the English have it covered; image via Light Locations.

Above: A florist's sink from the September 2007 issue of Martha Stewart Living via Vignette Design.

An easy DIY with a big return on investment: swapping out your standard-issue hardware for hand-painted wooden knobs.

Spotted on Lushlee, these painted pastel knobs could be used to match or stylishly mismatch a dresser.

Above: The inspiration: Nuppi hand-painted knobs from Finnish designer Riikka Kantinkoski. For a similar rough-hewn look, don't bother sanding or priming first. (But do so for a smooth, opaque finished product.) Use painter's tape to block the top while painting the base.

Above: 1 and 1/4-inch Natural Wood Mushroom Knobs; $2.84 on Amazon. Many paint suppliers sell 8-ounce samples of their wall paints, an easy way to match a color you already have at home; Glidden offers 2-ounce Paint Testers—brush included—for about $1 (R).

Nothing says spring quite like the exuberant botanical prints of Josef Frank, the legendary Austrian-born architect, artist, and designer who emigrated to Sweden in the 1930s.

Frank's fabrics, which feature surreal interpretations of nature, are still printed at the original factory in Sweden and sold through Stockholm-based Svenskt Tenn. In the US, his wallpaper and fabrics are available through Just Scandinavian in New York City.

Above: A house in Sydney by designer Marion Hall Best features a stairwell wallpapered in Frank's Varklocka Wallpaper ($150 a roll at Just Scandinavian); photo via Come Over Sunday.

Above: A bath in Scandinavia features a shade made from Frank's Windows; photo via Skona Hem.

Above: A headboard upholstered in Frank's Green Birds design; via Elle Decor.

Above: Frank's Green Birds fabric used as a shower curtain in an LA bath by M Design.

Above: A Celotocaulis fabric; available by the yard from Just Scandinavian; photo via Svenskt Tenn in Stockholm.

Above: A chair covered in Celotocaulis fabric; available by the yard from Just Scandinavian; image via Svenskt Tenn in Stockholm.

The arrival of spring is making us think about green interiors; we especially like this collection of rooms painted in appealing shades of jade green.

Above: A living room via Fired Earth.

Above: Photograph by Jac de Villiers, via Desire to Inspire.

Above: A green dining room in a small castle, via KML Design.

Above: Jane Whitfield's country house in France, featuring an ebony table by Astier de Villatte, flanked by Herman Miller chairs; photograph by Birgitta Wolfgang Drejer for the Telegraph.

Above: A green Eames rocker in a European kitchen (L), via Office for Word and Image (OWI). A green industrial pendant in a loft kitchen (R); photograph by Lisa Cohen.

In my New York City apartment, I have a tiny bit of personal space and an even tinier bit of space for a garden. Whatever I grow has to fit either on a window ledge (the one not occupied by my AC) or the fire escape. I could possibly garden on the roof, but I’m not certain we’re even allowed up there.

In her new book, The Balcony Gardener, Isabelle Palmer instructs the spatially challenged on the fine art of thrifty urban beautification. With ease, she transforms castoffs into planters and fills them with hardy, long-lasting flowers, practical screen plants (to shield nosy neighbors), and themed collections (peppers and herbs for a curry box or medicinal herbs for teas).

Above: Palmer suggests saving cans and olive oil drums (or asking a friendly restaurant) to repurpose as rustic planters.

Above: Empty glass jars, a few lengths of wire, and an urge to undertake a simple DIY project are all you need to make mood-setting lanterns to illuminate your balcony garden.

Above: Rounding out the book is a handful of recipes that use the herbs and other plants you grow in cocktails and simple dishes; The Balcony Gardener is $13.57 at Amazon.

We revisit a perennial favorite of Remodelista readers: traditional sliding barn doors.

Whether they're new or reclaimed, the doors lend their rustic, practical sensibility to a space. They save room but are not tucked away like pocket doors, making a virtue out of their rugged beams and industrious hardware.

N.B.: See our post on Hardware: Barn Door Fittings for door hanging options.

Above: A San Francisco entryway by Feldman Architecture.

Above: A black barn door in the entry hall of a TriBeCa Loft by Schappacher White Architects. Photograph by Jason Lindberg.

Above: A bright red door by Los Angeles architect Barbara Bestor. Photograph by Aaron Farley for Paper Magazine.

Above: Bar doors at the Los Poblanos Historic Inn reference the compound's agricultural origins.

Above: A rustic barn door in a lake house designed by Birmingham, Alabama–based Studio C Architecture.

Above: With a simple Shaker sensibility, this sliding barn door divides the dining and play spaces at the Seesaw Cafe in San Francisco.

Above: A leather handle used on a sliding barn door by Alchemy Architects.

Above: An oversized reclaimed door in a studio by Patrick Davis Design.

Above: A bathroom alcove with a sliding door by Max Levy Architect.

Above: Barn doors in the Vermont home of the founder of Oughton Limited Bags.

Above: The door of this bathroom by the Brooklyn Home Company was sourced from a New Hampshire sheep barn.

Above: A sliding barn door conceals a home office in a project by Greene Partners.

Above: The door to a bedroom in a Mill Valley, California home by Artistic Designs for Living.

Above: Furniture maker Cliff Spencer crafts barn doors from reclaimed wine-barrel oak.

N.B.: This post is an update; the original story ran on March 18, 2010.

The Williamsburg boutique Joinery started with a woman and a blowtorch: The blowtorch was used to char the ceiling to the perfect shade of aged brown.

Joinery is owned by Angela Silva and though not a business partner, her boyfriend Emil Corsilo is also the owner of men's store Hickoree’s Hard Goods. Silva designed the store on a budget by opening up the interior, painting the dark walls white, and installing oiled-pine floors. She also burned the ceiling beams with the shou-sugi-ban technique (where wood is burned, brushed, washed, and oiled). Joinery sells women’s and men’s clothing, utilitarian home goods, and vintage accessories, along with an exclusive collection of Brazilian blankets and rugs sourced by Silva (who is half-Brazilian). The Joinery website is still in the works; for the moment, contact Joinery for information on purchasing products.

Photography by Michael A. Muller (except where noted).

Above: Joinery is located at 263 South 1st Street in Brooklyn.

Above: Silva travels to a remote Brazilian town, Resende Costa, to source hand-woven blankets and rugs. "Everyone there is either a weaver themselves or a shop owner selling textiles," says Silva. New at Joinery are vegetable-dyed straw mats also from Resende Costa; read more about them on the Joinery blog.

Above: A floral top by H. Fredriksson ($250) and light leather tote by Ffixxed ($144).

Above: Silva has always collected antique furniture and vintage finds, like these steel clothing hangers.

Above: A red clutch from UK designer Mimi Berry ($190) and indigo lingerie from Toronto-based company Fortnight. The top of the antique credenza was charred by Silva to deal with water-damaged wood.

Above: Necklaces by of-the-moment New York artist Erin Considine (shown on the left); $75 to $115. Metal cuff bracelets by Kora ($210 each) are arranged on a bed of dried moss.

Above: Made in Texas by Barrett Alley, the leather envelope wallet is $95.

Above: The wooden floors are pine, finished with Osmo Top Oil.

Above: The lighting is from New York designer Lindsey Adelman's You Make It series.

Above: Tumbleweeds peek out from underneath display tables and in the corners of the store; they were sourced from Prairie Tumbleweed Farm in Kansas.