Garden
Solo Stove Bonfire
Solo Stove's latest release, the Bonfire backyard firepit, is one of the hottest campaigns on Kickstarter right now. At printing it was flaming with over $200,000 in backer pledges, smoking its $15,000 funding goal and...
Suncast Wood & Resin Deck Box
As if the end of summer isn't depressing enough, now I have to figure out where to store all of my patio furniture cushions and floating pool bars for the winter. Since everyone thinks I'm the master of looking up crap...
The Softub
Indoors, outdoors, on a dock in the middle of the river with a thatch roof on top. The Softub is the kind of hot tub that goes where and does what you tell it to. Without lip and without draining your wallet...
Land Shark Sculpture
Shark Week might excite, amaze, and terrify for 7 days, but the Land Shark lawn ornament will do it all. year. long. Tucson Artist Chris Crooks smiths his Great Whites of the back yard by hand from 16-gauge cold rolled...
Naiad Lawn Watering Robot
Blake Johnson developed the Naiad Lawn Watering Robot concept in 2009, when he was an industrial design student asked to "Identify a problem in yard care and design a product to solve the problem." In his research Johnson...
Star-Shaped Fruit & Veggie Grow Molds
Be the star of the party. Show your patriotism on the 4th of July. Use these molds to grow some lemons and give yourself the gold star you never got from your teachers. (How's that for making lemonade, Mrs. Carlson?)...
LandShark Pound-In Landscape Edging
Obviously I know nothing about gardening or landscape designs...or doing anything with care and precision, really--but I do know that I like the look of this toothy edging. I also like that they use the words "LandShark"...
The Groundfridge
Bomb shelter? Underground fort? Not really. But Dutch designer Floris Schoonderbeek's Groundfridge is big enough for me to pop a squat inside and go all Jabba the Hutt chowing down on the 1,100 pounds food and drink she...
The Most Beautiful Composter in the World
Yes, that's right. The Most Beautiful Composter in the World! Envirocycle's all-in-one outdoor composting system won the title in a down-and-dirty competition, with unanimous votes from judges Mary Mary Quite Contrary...
Hose Hooker
You may not need a Hose Hooker every day, but, say, when bath time for Bonzo turns into spraying yourself in the face a few times and walking away from the sudsing just as wet and agitated as your dog is, the hands-free...
SOAK Wood-Fired Hot Tub
"SOAK" is Japanadian for "total body restoration." The BC-based design and fabrication firm Ox + Monkey designed...and fabricated their hot tub after the Japanese Ofuro, a deep soaking tub traditionally made of aromatic...
Decorpro Ion Fire Pit
I can't decide what to use Decorpro's Ion fire pit for first: 1) Making an offering to the gods of beer gut removal in time for shirtless season; 2) burning my 38 belts, XL T-shirts, and other bad beer gut juju; or 3)...
Clove Urban Balance Chair
April 15. Yes, it's tax day. But it's also a nice day to reflect on the best news ever: warm weather's a-comin'! And this year, I'm using my 2015 refund to deck out my deck for summer. New grill, new umbrella, a coupla...
Plant-A-Bar
Bloody Mary, quite contrary, how does your garden grow? With mixers, wells, and last call bells, and glass snifters all in a row...
Picnic Table in a Briefcase
You've heard of pop-up dinners, right? Outsunny's portable picnic table is a nifty BYOSeat setup that folds into itself, and then folds again into a briefcase-style block with handle for easy carrying...
Pendragon's Hearth Dragon Fire Pit
Melissa Crisp smiths some wicked fire pits. You've seen her stunning (yet slightly twisted) Forest Fire Pit burning through these parts before. And here we have an equally equal parts cool and disturbing example of her...
Fatboy Oriental Rug Picnic Lounge
Or is it a Persian rug? Probably neither, but any which way, this outdoor blanket fashioned in the likeness of a fine indoor carpet will add some exoticism to your next picnic or day at the beach. Fatboy makes the oversized...
ALFI Wood-Burning Hot Tub
Not only does ALFI's Fire Hot Tub look like a slice of a cartoon spaceship, but its "engine" is a wood-burning fire pit. No electricity, generators, plugs, or drain connections required...
Rent-A-Goat - Invasive Plant Remediation
Amazon offers Home Services now. You enter your zip code and request a quote and you can get a plumber, an electrician, someone to set up your media center so you don't have to throw it out the window. But the only person...
Kodama Zomes Hanging Beds
It's no Bird's Nest Bed, but I would 100% take a Kodama Zome over a Lotus Belle Tent on account of the fact that it is 100 times less likely to make someone say my least favorite word of the decade: "glamping." The geodesic...
Star Shower Laser Christmas Lights
You can Sparkle Magic the oak tree in your front yard. You can make a Snow Flurry down your exterior siding. Or you can unleash a Star Shower across your entire property. All of these laser-projected holiday lights produce...
The Garden Igloo
The Garden Igloo isn't just an igloo (of sorts) it's an igloo multi-tool (of sorts). The transparent geodesic dome has been "proofed" for both winter use as a sealed enclosure able to absorb and retain heat from the sun...
Indoor/Outdoor Heat Lamp Table
Some people really like to eat outside (me). Other people really like to complain about how it's too cold to eat outside (my girlfriend). Put those people together and you'll get one of 3 things: arguments; silent resentment;...
GazeBox Retractable Garage
One guess as to which country the GazeBox hails from. A glorious transparent arc that accordions around your 6-figure sports car? Protects it in style, with pomp, and without hiding it from jealous eyes? Gotta be Italian...