TARA DILLARD

Helping, with Beloved, my mom buy a new car, I had a great chance at Garden Design.  Exactly, no life activity unrelated to Garden Design. ...

With a client yesterday, below, huge vase of fresh peonies. More amazing, not florist peonies.  Grown/cut from a local garden.  Atlan...

When the garden is a feature of the kitchen I know the architect has gone beyond their education .  And delved into the realm of intuitiv...

Every garden view should be 'art' on the wall. 2+ decades ago I visited a garden in Greensboro, NC with every window view tak...

In the kitchen. Simple, pretty, functional, evocative.  And, my favorite, not styled for a photo.  You're seeing 'everyday...

Interior attention to detail.  Exterior attention to detail? . A grill.  Swathed in vinyl, no less.  Perhaps to match the counterto...

Vanishing threshold's 2 questions: 1) Is the garden so fabulous I MUST see inside the home. 2) Is the interior so fabulous I Must...

Their home is classic architecture.  Her husband asked for ONE thing.  In my book, 'done'. Every site with a Big Green Egg is...

At the pool an outdoor kitchen is planned under the new room addition.  Yesterday's meeting included lighting choices.   And spac...

Belgard does outdoor kitchens, below. All price points. Myriad styles. Landscaped PROPERLY each is unique. Alas, Belgard's marketing pic...

Diminutive, my pair of chandeliers hang, as inspired by a blog years ago, over a harvest table. Many mornings I'm here, in my wicker cha...

From, The Bed of Procrustes , a new book by Nassim Taleb . "Education makes the wise slightly wiser, but it makes the fool vastly more...

Last year when I designed her landscape her kitchen was sheet rock. Last week, below, still unfinished it's already fabulous. Sheepish...

POVERTY IS A GREAT PRESERVER. Unaffordable harvest tables led my conniving lizard brain to a table I already own. Hideous : oak, mahogan...

Doctors, lawyers, engineers & more have specialties. ELLEN OGDEN is the KITCHEN GARDEN specialist. Whether you have acreage or a tiny ...

SPO's home was under construction when I drew her landscape design several months ago. I knew from descriptions it was going to be scr...

For my landscape ( & sanity) the Feng Shui of the kitchen must change. Kitchen counters form an 'L' blocking easy access to the...