Current Obsessions: Freshening Up

Happy April! Ahead, Suleika Jaouad’s rambling farmhouse, a salmon-pink paint color, gardens everywhere, and more signs of spring..

• Most shared article among the Remodelista team this week: the 200-year-old farmhouse of Suleika Jaouad and Jon Batiste.
• “Amazing intel in the answers here,” writes Margot, about this quest for a rosy pink paint color on a Shaker building.
• For all your home barista needs: This great-looking coffee maker now comes in a new color.
• Objects of our desire: Vancouver ceramic artist Janaki Larsen’s latest.
• Ooh, admiring this new mid-century light that doubles as a floor and suspension lamp.
• How France’s anti-waste laws are boosting small repair shops. We love to see it.
• Eyeing Apto, compact designs for small-space living.
• Don’t forget! Tiwa’s Scrapyard is happening Saturday, April 4, in NYC.
• In real estate news, photographer Robert Frank and artist June Leaf’s downtown NYC live-work townhouse is for sale.
• The most beautiful restaurant we’ve seen in a while? That would be Holy Carrot, Spitalfields.
• A thrilling reminder that gardens can be anywhere.
• If you were charmed by floral designer Kelsie Hayes’ dreamy new studio and event space that Margot wrote about yesterday, here’s an opportunity to see it in person and learn from the best.
• Fan has her eye on this conch shell-shaped terracotta planter from Campo deFiori.
• New Yorkers: CherryWatch at BBG is officially live. (Hat tip: Laura.)
• Gardening this weekend? Watch this first and see how an ecologist does spring cleanup.
• New York Restoration Project is giving away thousands of native tree saplings starting this weekend! Find details here.
• And a late-breaking addition to this week’s 10 Easy Pieces roundup of outdoor chaise lounge chairs: It’s from Zara Home and it’s so good, you may want to use it indoors instead.