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LA Times Home & Garden Roundup 10.11.08
Los Angeles

In a time of uncertainty and flux, where the stock market has hit record lows this week, staying home, enjoying our homes, becomes important. Here on AT, we've started the fall session of our bi-year...

LA Times Home & Garden Roundup 10.04.08
Los Angeles

The race for the White House is not the only campaign in town. Right here on AT, we're in the midst of our Fall Colors contest (have you been following the entries? Take a look at the latest entries...

LA Times Home & Garden Roundup 09.27.08
Los Angeles

Practically speaking, Los Angeles shouldn't even exist. Naturally a desert, water has to be piped in, homes are cantilevered on shaky hills, earthquakes and wildfires constantly threaten to bring it ...

LA Times Home & Garden Roundup 09.13.08
Los Angeles

There were two articles in particular that caught our eye in the Los Angeles Times Home Section today and they both centered around skateboarders, the colder weather's answer to the surf culture that'...

LA Times Home & Garden Roundup 09.06.08
Los Angeles

In a city where our rainy season is short (and, for the last few years, almost non-existent), creating a drought-tolerant lawn is something that interests more and more of us. It's a way of both bein...

LA Times Home & Garden Roundup 08.30.08
Los Angeles

Synchronistically, given that we've been blogging escapes all month, one of the feature stories in this week's Los Angeles Times Home and Garden Section spotlights the renovation of LA's see-and-be-se...

LA Times House & Garden Roundup 08.23.08
Los Angeles

This month, it's all been about escaping. Moving is the biggest escape of them all. What about moving a whole house? If you've been out cavorting recently, you might have seen one, traveling along ...

LA Times Home & Garden Roundup 08.16.08
Los Angeles

This week, we asked how you mix it up and blogged about putting it into practice (click here and here and here). That mindset can become especially important if you're a modernist who's just purchase...

LA Times Home & Garden Roundup 08.09.08
Los Angeles

This week's lead article in the Los Angeles Time Home and Garden Section examines the changing face of the antiques market as more and more stores move online and their customers become more adventuro...

A 1958 Edward Fickett House Retains Its Aura
Los Angeles Times Home & Garden 08.02.08

Today's Los Angeles Times Home and Garden feature story is a house the was originally featured in the LA Times fifty years ago! The article documented the entire process -- from planning to construct...

LA Times Home & Garden Roundup 08.02.08
Los Angeles

Somehow, there's something serendipitous in the fact that the new Saturday version of the Los Angeles Time Home and Garden Section leads with an occasional feature, Tweaked, that we know we'll look fo...

LA Jolla Stunner
LA Times Home & Garden 07.31.08

The Home and Garden section of the LA Times is moving to Saturdays with a variety of new features including lifestyles, DIY projects and lost LA homes. It'll be combined with neighborly advice and ho...

LA Times H&G 7.24.08

Today's LA Times Home and Garden section includes a round up of resources around town for some of the fabulous fabrics and textiles seen in the film Mamma Mia!; a look at Pearl Fryar, topiary artist a...

A Rare Luis Barragán Fountain at an L.A. Home? Maybe
LA Times H&G 7.24.08

Today's Los Angeles Times Home and Garden feature story focuses on the provenance of the fountain in a Los Angeles home. Hidden behind a large wall, the house in the Beverly Crest neighborhood has lo...

Jim Austin's Urban Desert Ranch
LA Times Home & Garden 7/17/08

Today's Los Angeles Times Home and Garden feature story is the desert canyon home of musician and surf wear entrepreneur Jim Austin. It's a perfect fit for Green Month here at AT, fusing desert style...

LA Times H&G: 7.17.08

Today's LA TImes Home and Garden section includes a piece on an Indian-style garden in the Valley, the history of the Adirondack Chair and a round-up of some modern updates (a must-read if you live in...

Venice Prefab Comes Together

The feature we most enjoyed while attending the recent Dwell on Design show was getting up close and personal with many of the prefab homes we've ogled both online and in print. One of the most ogle-w...

Living Faux Real at the Americana at Brand

We've been to the Americana at Brand just once, and we have to say, once was really enough. For those of you who don't know what the Americana, or it's older precursor The Grove is, it's a theme-park ...

LA Event: Book Signing with Julius Shulman 6.28.08

If you're going to be in Palm Springs this weekend, there's a great opportunity to meet celebrated photographer Julius Shulman. Shulman, along with co-authors Alan Hess and Michael Stern will be havin...

The Timeless Ceramics of Otto Heino
LA Times Home & Garden 06.26.08

This week's LA Times Home & Garden feature story is a great profile by David Keeps on ceramist Otto Heino. Heino was a key figure in the California crafts movement during the 1950s through the 1970s. ...

LA Times H&G 6.18.08

Today's LA TImes Home and Garden section is all about kitchens. If you're considering doing a kitchen remodel, this week's section includes a feature on cookbook writer Martha Shulmans' small kitchen,...

Creating A No-Dig Garden
LA Times Home & Garden 6.12.08

Today's LA Times Home & Garden section features an interesting story about Pat Marfisi, who has a vegetable garden in his Hollywood Hills home. What's so special about that? Well, his garden is a "no ...

Buddhism as Decoration?

Peace, tranquility, harmony and balance. Those are words often associated with the Buddhism, and thus the Buddha's likeness has become an ever popular presence in many homes as a centerpiece or access...

Hallie Holtzman's Westwood Garden
LA Times 6.05.08

Today's Los Angeles Times Home and Garden feature story is the garden of Hallie Holtzman in Westwood. It offers tons of inspiration, especially appropriate as we move forward with Outdoor Living month...