This week the Remodelista editors made a note of their best easy design ideas from summerhouses—and made plans to transplant them come autumn. Join them.
Homemade Dish Soap
Above: Turns out it’s easy and fun to make homemade dish soap. (Plus you can customize your concoction with the scent and container of your choice.) Photograph by Justine Hand.
Above: The Anglepoise Type 75 Sconce is designed Sir Kenneth Grange and available in Brushed Aluminum, Jet Black, and Alpine White; $155 at Design Within Reach. An idea to bring home from the beach house: wall lights for bedside reading, all year round. See more in 10 Easy Pieces: Shaded Bedside Sconces Under $200.
Piano Key Fence
Above: The distance between slats on a four-foot fence gradually increases to let in light (at left) without revealing the existence of a parking court (at right) at a beach house on the eastern tip of Long Island. Photograph by Scott Frances, courtesy of T. W. Ryan Architecture.
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