Current Obsessions: Into July

Here are just a few things we’re noting as we wrap up our Minimalist Summer issue and head into the long weekend.

• “Color makes people feel alive”: how one garden designer incorporates “zing.”
• We’re admiring this 1906 firehouse in Pittsfield, Massachusetts that’s newly redone by seven BIPOC designers via The Kaleidoscope Project and opening for tours in August. Book your visit here.
• Remodelista favorite Atelier Vime’s first shop, La Maison Vime, opens today; stop by at 24 Quai du Rhone, Vallabrègues, France.
• Save the date for Very Good & Proper’s summer warehouse sale on Saturday, July 9, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the warehouse in London; more info—and address—here.
• “I’m hoping to go see artist Duke Riley’s work at the Brooklyn Museum: scrimshaw-like drawings on whitewashed beach trash,” Margot reports.
• Browse the Fourth of July sale at Appliances Connection, going on now through July 13, with discounts, special pricing, and two-for-one offers.
• Three quick storage ideas to steal from a waterside kitchen.
• And a post from the Remodelista archives we revisit ever summer: how to employ an unfussy hardware-store find all over the house.

May we recommend:

• A handy bottle-drying rack for beside the sink.
• And introducing Revival’s first bedding collection. (Which hue would you choose?)