ReadyMade: Instructions for everyday life

The Green Grape Everybody knows that wooden wine or soda crates stamped with their appellation of origin make for attractive shelves and storage boxes...

Like Thomas Lee, the early-20th-century businessman who designed what came to be known as the Adirondack chair for his summer house in Westport, New York, I made this chair for purely selfish reasons...

Shutters weren't always associated with summer. They belonged to bad climates, dim sunlight, and harsh New England winters endured by pioneering forebears in funny hats...

Plain old barbecue is so last summer. Intrigued by the idea of building a smoker, I transformed a shiny little aluminum trash can into a hot pot, perfect for slow-cooking meats, fish, and veggies...

When the thermometer climbs, beat the heat by congregating around an outdoor bar...