Trending on Remodelista: Seeing Spring

Vic Brotherson is a London florist whose fresh, anything-goes approach keeps her busy with those seeking a small bouquet or an impossibly glamorous wedding (hint: Kate Moss). We hopped over to Scarlet & Violet in northwest London:

Sprint has us in the mood for pastel planters.

When its shutters are closed, this building's facade is an all-white picture of minimalism. But each shutter opens to reveal a candy-colored backside that hints at a deeper story within.

We've rounded up our favorite outdoor dining chairs in a bouquet of spring pastels. Mix different shapes and colors to seat your guests for the season's first foray into outdoor dining.

The summer of 2011, I painted my deck chairs pink. And so? My bold move was not as scandalous as the plot line of Herman Raucher's coming-of-age film, "The Summer of '42" (in which a recently widowed young bride seduces a teenage boy on Nantucket Island), but in the context of coastal Connecticut home design, my act was racy and divisive.

There are benefits to supermarket flowers, the first being that they make grocery shopping feel less onerous and the second being that they're on the affordable end of the price spectrum. At $8 a bunch, I could pop these tulips into my grocery bag without hesitation. Even better, tulips are so lively on their own that they don't need anything extra to look impressive. The trick is in how you arrange them:

I've been daydreaming about this Weston Surman and Deane writer's shed since I first wrote about it last month. And though it might be awhile before I'm able to commission one of the same for my own (imaginary) backyard, I've sleuthed some of the elements that make the inside of the shed so appealing.

Celebrating the beginning of May is of national importance in France, and each year, traditionally, it is greeted with a bunch of muguet du bois, or lilies of the valley. Flower shops in Paris are brimming with these simple white flowers, and farmers decamp from the countryside to sell their lilies out of carts. Why not start a May festival of lilies here on our own soil?

In celebration of that time of year when one gets to indulge with abandon in bunnies, chicks, and all things "cute, pretty, and pastel," my children and I have been creating myriad Easter projects. But this is one I did all on my own when they were at school: delicate, tiny Easter posies hanging from the window, a welcoming homage to spring.