Home and Garden Colorado

Photo by Susie Brenner Photography. A lesson in restraint and quiet ambition, the 2026 Home & Garden Colorado Designer Showhouse sits on a double standard lot at the intersection of Denver’s Belcaro and Cory-Merrill neighborhoods, like it’s been there for decades. If you look closer, however, the home’s meticulous details— barrel ceilings, graceful archways, inset brick patterning, custom millwork, and a soaring two-story living room—speak of something entirely more modern.

Photo courtesy of Amy Pates. Coldwell Banker broker Amy Pates has spent more than two decades watching Eagle evolve from a quiet mountain community into one of the most sought-after corners of Eagle County. Pates relocated to Eagle 26 years ago to raise her kids and never looked back. “We have such a large family population,” Pates says. “Our schools are great. Our medical is great.

The High View House in the Boulder foothills steps down a ridgeline, weaving between rock outcroppings. A series of pavilions clad in steel and glass rest on a solid concrete base that anchors the home to the site. Photo courtesy of Follow Architecture. Andrea and Colin Ostman founded Loveland-based Follow Architecture in 2018, four years after they hiked the Pacific Crest Trail, which winds through the Sierra Nevada and Cascade mountain ranges.

Sometimes a room design is based around a signature piece of furniture or a standout wall treatment. In this Cherry Hills Village primary bathroom, the design inspiration was a distinctive type of marble tile. “The homeowner wanted the bathroom to feel elegant and ethereal but also traditional and related to nature,” says designer Emily Lindemann.

Clean, midcentury modern lines greet guests to Uchiko. Photo courtesy of Uchiko. The midcentury modern building in Cherry Creek that once housed the Ginny Williams Gallery has been given new life as Uchiko, one of a family of restaurants under the Hai Hospitality umbrella. “We fell in love with that building and its history as the Ginny Williams Gallery,” says Ellen Saathoff, Hai Hospitality’s design director.

Photo by Yanadjana/Creative Market. Don’t let the name fool you. City Floral, which recently celebrated its 115th anniversary, cultivates much more than flowers. General Manager Trela Phelps says the greenhouse grows dozens of vegetable varieties: fifty-five tomatoes, forty peppers, a dozen bean and cabbage varieties, ten carrots, twenty-five cucumbers and fifteen varieties of eggplants and lettuces. “That’s just what we grow,” Phelps said.

Tucked along Tennyson Street, Miller Lane Mercantile feels less like a shop and more like a thoughtfully curated space for the home. Wide folding windows open the storefront to the street, letting in fresh air and an easy, spring-ready energy that blurs the line between indoors and out. Inside, carefully chosen goods, from home accents to everyday essentials, sit alongside a standout selection of coffee table books, the kind you pick up without thinking and suddenly find yourself lost in.

“Light Circle,” LED’s and Wood, 2014. Photo by Wes Magyar. For Collin Parson, art has always been a way of life. The son of a sculptor and a modern dancer, he grew up immersed in Denver’s creative community. Today, much of his artistic practice explores the interplay of light, material, and perception. It’s a fitting focus for someone who, as director of galleries and curator at the Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities, also shines a light on Colorado’s artists.

Photo by Justin Martin Photography. When Zev O’Brien, principal of ZOB Design Studio, was tasked with reimagining an 1890s Richardson-Romanesque home in Denver’s Capitol Hill neighborhood, his goal was twofold: honor its architectural legacy while creating a space tailored to modern living, particularly in the kitchen.

Photo courtesy of Denver Botanic Gardens/Scott Dressel-Martin. June is Perennial Garden Month, but the real work starts now, while spring is still stretching out and the yard is full of possibility. If you are craving color that lasts beyond a single season, perennials are where to begin. Unlike annuals, they return year after year, which means the choices you make now will shape your garden for seasons to come.