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.