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LA Times Home & Garden Roundup 12.20.08
Los Angeles

[Illustration by Juliette Borda] In the last week, with Christmas rapidly approaching, we've tried to put the focus back on the holiday's true meaning by sharing stories of giving from the heart, some...

House Tour: The p_House
Los Angeles

Name: Robert Sweet Location: Redondo Beach, CA Size: 1,500 sf Years lived in: 1 >> Enter Slideshow Robert Sweet's p_House came to our attention when a good friend living down in Redondo Beach con...

Secret Kindness
Random Acts of Kindness Amongst Neighbors

Being a good neighbor. Sometimes it means helping someone move, or lending a tool, or simply just being there for them when they need a shoulder to lean upon when no other shoulder is around. Occasion...

Jung-Ah Kim's "A Draw Bag" Desk

How awesome is this desk concept? Very! We imagine it as the desk of choice for jewel thieves, spies or anyone else who might need to literally pack up and get away at the drop of a hat. Each "drawer"...

Look! Foolproof Houseplants

As we dive into the winter season it's a good time to add some plants to help spruce up the indoors and help filter stuffy air. And even though we love dwarf citrus trees, succulents and paperwhites,...

Good Questions: Chimney Upkeep as a Renter?

Hi AT - We moved into a 2 story apartment in Pasadena about 6 months ago. The building was built in the early 1930s (think single pane drafty window). We have a lovely fireplace in our living room. ...

Inspiration: Lamill Coffee in Silverlake

It's been about a year since Lamill Coffee opened it's doors in Silverlake (across the street from Spaceland and right next door to Yolk). Last week we kidnapped our neighbor (and amazing photographe...

Trending: Home Décor Stores Holiday Shopping List

For this weeks post (before we go into the last holiday shopping week) we thought it would be most appropriate to put together a full shopping list of Home Décor Stores in Los Angeles. Unfortunately ...

Look! Small Tufenkian Artisan Carpets

Here's a way to enjoy a smaller, more affordable version of the luxury of one of Tufenkian Artisan Carpets in the kitchen, front door entry or bathroom. The Tufenkian showrooms in Melrose are offering...

Look! Compact Furniture For Overnight Guests

It's always nice to be welcomed into someone's home as a guest. When there's a cozy bed, a nightstand for a book and a glass of water and the space to put your bag down and unwind, you feel at home. ...

Gifts From The Heart: Coupons of Promise

Like Grace, who posted her ideas for gifting her friends and family with the present of her presence, some of our gifts this season, though they may come in boxes or tied with bows, won't be things th...

Good Questions: Organizing After Downsizing Space?

AT reader Toni writes in with a call for help about arranging her new condo space after moving from a larger 2 bedroom townhouse into a smaller space: I need help arranging my new one room 13.5 X 19....

Give Back During the Holidays and Year-Round: Volunteer

I can remember the first time I painted a room--it was for a family that was moving into a Habitat for Humanity house. I was just about to become a teenager and I remember feeling important because I...

On Personal Holiday Traditions...

This week, we were all asked to share stories and/or tips on the topic of "giving"--not in the material sense, but on a deeper level that illustrated the true spirit of the holidays. To be perfectly ...

Rainy Day Wishes, Seating and Flooring In One, 2D Flowers, and a Whole Lotta Nothing
Los Angeles Slinks for 12.19.08

The last Slinks of 2008 include a rainy day themed greetings card, a seating solution that literally disappears into the floor, 2D floral arrangements and the gift of absolutely...NOTHING!...

Look: The Amazing and Modern Designs of Minimis!
Austin

A few months ago we had the pleasure of getting a personal look at many Austin homes during the annual Austin AIA Homes Tour. While we saw a lot of gorgeous houses, there was one in particular that f...

Pete's Diner & Christina's KQED Gift
Holiday Stories 2008...

Here are two stories about "giving" that we're collecting from readers and publishing this week. To find out more or submit your own >> click here. From Linda: Michele and I stumbled into a diner o...

Open Thread #73
Los Angeles

We're about to step out tonight to join the local ATLA team to celebrate the holidays, which undoubtedly means some good times (if not some spilled drinks by some of our more "festive" team members). ...

How To: Choose a Real Christmas Tree

Sadly, we can't partake in the joys of bringing home a live, fragrant Christmas tree because of Emily's allergies, but that doesn't mean we're not warm to the tradition of going out and bringing back ...

AT Survey: Would You Karaoke at The Airport?

Alright, we have to admit, when we heard about karaoking at the airport this holiday season to calm nerves before flying we got a little excited. We are avid karaoke singers (our last birthday was he...

Good Questions: How to Party Without P***ing Off the Neighbors?

I live in an apartment that used to be cool. Most of the people in the building are late 20s early 30s party animals, so having impromptu get togethers that last until 1 or 2 are pretty commonplace un...

2 Questions To Ask Yourself Before Organizing

Before you start organizing your office space (or any space for that matter), it's important to ask yourself questions that will instruct your process. You'll need a vision for the space (and a goal ...

Flickr Finds: Small Holiday Decor Creates A Big Impact

The details in this tiny tree scene make an impact! A lot of people like to go big with decorations during the holiday season. The big tree, the strings of lights, etc. While we love seeing this style...

House Call: Whittier Drive Residence
Los Angeles

Name: Whittier Drive Residence; Burnham Design Location: Beverly Hills, CA >>>View Slideshow The room above seems to personify the season of winter itself, with a huge white shag rug that we'd imagi...

11 Tips for Slowing Down

Going on vacation can be an automatic slow down. And even though a lot of us are about to take some time off, this week can be hectic with last minute details to take care of. We've been busy finish...

Mario Stadelmann's Paperchairs: Made From Discarded Newspaper

Here's a chair we'd like to see and sit on in person. Mario Stadelmann's Paperchair is made from discarded newspaper that have been cast into these modern seating solutions. Available in a variety of ...

Archipelago Botanicals: Products To Pamper Yourself And Others

In the midst of all the holiday running around, have you scheduled some time for yourself to take care of yourself and regroup? Pampering yourself is not only nice, it's important... ...

Good Questions: Looking for a Bar Cabinet & Hutch

West Elm used to offer the bar cabinet and hutch shown above: "features in-door storage for bottles, a tempered clear glass shelf, and racks for 24 stemmed glasses, while the cabinet has an open compa...

6 Ways To Update A Thrift Store Dresser

We're already looking ahead to AT's January Jumpstart 2009 (let's just say we like to plan ahead). So far we've found a side table that has great lines--just a really bad green paint job with 70's in...

The Gift of Time Together

It is a truth universally acknowledged that the holidays is the time to spend with those you love; whether it be over a meal, drinks, or even meeting up to see a movie. As I get older, I've noticed t...

Sales & Events Calendar: 12.18.08
Los Angeles

BoConcept of Santa Monica is selling all-in stock lamps and select accessories at 40% off. And mark your calendars for 20% off all in-stock upholstery, 20% off Basic XT Wall System (while supplies las...

Holiday Season: What really makes you smile?
Melbourne

Our family’s Christmas lunch is a case of too many cooks somehow not spoiling the broth, and with 21 people coming, this year is going to be a big one. As we all converge at our grandparents house,...

50th Anniversary Arne Jacobsen Egg Chair Miniatures

Here's a gift idea for a friend or family member who appreciates the great design of Arne Jacobsen, but can't necessarily fork over the serious moolah to purchase their own full size version. 1:6 Desi...

Are You Chronically Disorganized?
How to determine if so and tips to help

Did you know there's an actual organization specifically studying and treating chronic organization? The National Study Group on Chronic Disorganization (NSGCD) studies and treats individuals with ser...

Budget Luxury: Use Wrapping Paper to Line your Drawers

When the year starts winding down, we start thinking about organizing for the new year. Then mix that in with the fact that the the bf needs more space for his clothes and that means time to clear ou...

Good Questions: Using Gourds for Holiday Decor?

Dear AT, I have a huge bowl full of leftover gourds from Thanksgiving. They're in great shape and I don't want to throw them out. How can I make them Christmas-y? I was considering painting them silve...

Inspiration: A Bold Coat of Paint

We posted yesterday about how changing just your bedding can quickly alter the look of your space and today we're inspired by bold paint (and how dramatically it can change your space). MellieMell's ...

Look! Key of Rock

Compared to a lot of other folks' keychains, we know we roll pretty light. Our keychain consists of just our car key and one house key; we're about to install one more deadbolt lock, but it's going to...

The Gratitude Box
A Heartfelt Gift Idea This Holiday Season

In recent years, I have found that giving material gifts to my family has become somewhat challenging. What to get and how much to spend? Do they really need that? How do I make this special for them?...

Home Repairs During Gloomy Weather

Humdrum glum wet weather like today always takes the winds out of our sails when it comes to work (work meaning sitting behind the computer). We'll fess up and say we'd like nothing better than to jus...

Look! A Shot of Yellow on a Gray Day

Seonna's Hillside Modern I've spent the morning inside putting together holiday gift baskets for my other job. I have my Christmas tree lit up, some music playing and may have snuck in a bite or two ...

How To... Remove Bath Tub Stains
...According to the Color of the Stain

We have a good friend who happens to have a bathroom which is renowned to be...how do we put this politely...in dire need of a thorough and drastic cleaning. Most of it is due to the accumulation of m...

Alternative Uses for Christmas Tree Ornaments

Three round glass vases are filled and stacked. A tree topper finishes off our version of a tree.Tomorrow night, ATLA's coming to our home for the holidays. Talk about a high pressure situation! (O...

Good Questions: A Coffee Table to Compliment My Chair?

Dear AT, We have a great little Midcentury modern home and we're adding more and more "classics" when we can afford them. We've just purchased the Eames Molded Plywood Lounge chair in Walnut and it se...

Mea Culpa: Commenting and IP Ban Issue

It's not you...it's us. No really. If you're one of the few people who have been contacting us bewildered about an IP ban notification while trying to leave a comment, we'd like to apologize and notif...

Make Garland, Use: Cupcake Liners

Over on our Apartment Therapy Flickr group we noticed a lovely string of pastel garland in a child's room. It's delicate and whimsical and we thought it would be great to take this same idea and use ...

Win this Terri Crystal Lamp from Aero Studios!
Holiday Giveaway 2008

To Main Giveaway Page Name: Terri Crystal Accent Lamp by Thomas O'Brien for Visual Comfort Shop: Aero Studios Limited Value: $225 Today in our Holiday Giveaway we're pleased to present this Terri Cr...

Good Quotes: Time Well Spent

"For every minute spent in organizing, an hour is earned." - Benjamin Franklin...

Look: Gorgeous and Modern Planters!
Austin

We've shown you gorgeous modern concrete planters before on AT, like local artisan Zachary Aric Zamora and his variance vessels. While this particular company we have to show you today isn't local to...

House Call: Palm Springs Alexander
Los Angeles

Name: Palm Springs Alexander Location: Palm Springs, CA Size: 1302 sq ft. Maybe it's the noticeably colder weather that's fallen onto Los Angeles like a big, damp rock, but we're daydreaming about e...

Look! More Reader Submitted Architecural Gingerbread Houses

We just received three more fun gingerbread creations from readers like Kelsey Long, whose pre-fab container gingerbread house is shown above complete with solar panels, sod roof, and plank decks on t...

Target's Red Hot Shop

Target has been quietly adding some unique and sometimes offbeat products to a special online shop they're calling the Red Hot Shop. It's a curated group of products that gets updated each month. Th...

Good Questions: Staining Wood Project

Hello AT, I recently bought a light-wood settee with pink fabric and would like to change the wood color to black (as pictured). Should I have it professionally done or can I do it myself? What kind ...

Change Your Bedding, Change Your Look
Part II

We recently posted about how changing something as simple as your bedding can really change your entire space. And yesterday we saw this same technique in action over at The Homebound. Above is the ...

One Year Ago Today...
Popular Los Angeles Posts Way Back When

Last year's favourite posts at this same time this week included tips of how to get out of the Christmas tree rut, tips on choosing the perfect office task chair (advice we took ourselves when purchas...

Roundup: Science-Inspired Home Decor

We've posted before about the pretty + simple design of science-inspired products. Beakers and glass test tubes are just a few looks that show up when it comes to this style of design. Check out a few...

Scavenger: Own Something From One of Our Past House Tours!
Los Angeles

Looky here, we noticed the listing for some vintage suitcases on Craigslist, and upon checking the link we discovered they're from Polly & Ben's Sherman Oaks Shangri-La house tour! We're tempted to pi...

Look! Bring Love Into The Season

Here's a lovely project idea for keeping those we love close at hand during the holidays. Collect some favorite family photos and recreate this heart shaped display as a sort of gratitude tree (or a ...

The Book Brush by Arik Levy

Even with a heavy duty air purifier and regular vacuuming around the apartment, our book collection can be a pain to clean, gathering dust like a Katamari dustball. The books at the top of our bookshe...

The Gift of the Unexpected: Paying It Forward

There's a small 99c store near my house that's a treasure trove of great and obviously easy-on-the-pocketbook finds. I'm often in there to see what they've scooped up: boxes of baking soda, thin glas...

Good Questions: What to Do With Floor to Ceiling Shelving?

Aruna writes in with a shelving decor question: I live in a rented apartment which has floor to ceiling built-in shelves. I am of Indian origin, so I have decorated my shelves with Indian decorative ...

Look!: DIY Corkboard Frame
Plus 4 More DIY Frame Ideas

At home, we've taken a corkboard from Target and spray painted it white to give it a more updated look for our space. But we are really loving this DIY corkboard frame idea from Abbey Goes Design Sco...

On the Set: Penelope

When we posted about the set of Pushing Daisies (R.I.P), we received a fair amout of emails asking us to please, pretty please also do a feature on Penelope, a movie starring a pig-snouted Christina R...

Secret Sources, Post-It Note Art, Quantifying the Self, and Breaking a Lease
Los Angeles Slinks for 12.16.08

Links about This Old House's Secret Sources, an art show composed of the small canvas of Post-It Notes, a woman documents the minuscule details of her own life, and how to break a lease prematurely......

The Most Valuable Gift – Your Time
Melbourne

The week before Christmas is always promoted as the busiest week of the year by retailers. But is shopping how you want to spend your most valuable gift, you time? Family, friends, strangers and your...

Cji's Recession Revue Fundraiser
Holiday Stories 2008...

Here are two stories about "giving" that we're collecting from readers and publishing this week. To find out more or submit your own >> click here. From Cji: I am a recent member of the Sausalito ...

One Finger Installation With the Push & Hang Drywall Hooks

By now, you've undoubtedly been assailed by the bombastic bearded bellow of Billie Mays, As-Seen-On-TV salesman, extolling the virtues of the Hercules Hook, a wall-hanging system that supposedly can h...

How To Be Generous With Family
Without Spending A Dime

Many people are taking this holiday season as an opportunity to focus on giving things other than packaged gifts. Cash is tight for a lot of people and the financial crisis has awakened many of us to...

Good Questions: Problematic Neighbors

With a sad and serious problem with his neighbors, AT reader David writes in with this question hoping for some advice from folks who've experienced similar dilemmas: I was just looking through your ...

Organizing Supplies From Etsy: Meeting Street Designs

Forest Friends Paper Clippies; $5.50If you like to have your papers out and about when you're working, these fun paperclips from Meeting Street Designs will help keep your papers looking good while ke...

Look! "Our Mod Gingerbread House"

Looks like someone took an advanced course in gingerbread house designing! AT reader Liz, sent us this delicious photo of her modernist rendition of the holiday classic, based upon a plan she included...

Good Quotes: Tord Boontje On Design + Emotion

Tord's Garland Light "Modernism does not mean minimalism, that contemporary does not foresake tradition and that technology does not abandon people and senses. The [Tord Boontje] Studio's designs oft...

How To: Use a Reusable Bag as Gift Wrap

Here's a good tip we noted from a recent thread of comments in our Unique Ways to Wrap Presents? post from reader, TheGreenLife, who recommended using reusable shopping bags to wrap up gifts. A video ...

5 Gifts That Give Back

Supporting our local communities with either our time or our money helps to strengthen where we live and makes the community a richer place to be. As you consider gifts this year, think about gifts t...

Jane's Wall Collection Christmas Tree

Jane of All the Luck in the World was kind enough to let us share her unique Christmas tree alternative, composed of "useless but pretty objects" she had collected over the years and arranged into som...

Wrap It Up! How Tos from the Container Store

This past weekend we were at the Container Store picking up a few last minute gifts for our blog colleagues when we were recruited by a group of women giving a demo on how to make your own fancy bows....

Good Questions: Anyone Recognize This Blanket?

With the weather getting more wet and cold all around, the good ole blanket is in high demand (my girlfriend is in love with the Snuggie, which makes everyone look like Alec Guiness in Star Wars). Rea...

Look!: Framed Vintage Camera Collection
On The Cheap

We were reminded of how much we love the look of a well displayed collection when we stumbled upon Tim Melideo's unique creation of framed vintage cameras. Tim was nice enough to share how he built ...

Mary Randolph Carter's Office At Ralph Lauren
Featured on The Selby

In the past, we've all felt a little bit of guilt when it comes to a messy, cluttered home office (check out Richele's rant of shame); but lately, we've come to embrace certain cluttered home offices ...

Hot or Not? Tree Stools

Courtney Skott's Tree Stools ...

Roundup: Sites to Recharge Your Creative Energy
Austin

While the holidays are a wonderful time of fun memories and family gatherings, they can also be a drain on some people, both emotionally, financially and creatively. If you feel like you haven't been...

Hot Posts: 12.14.08
Los Angeles

Three house tours made it into this week's readers' favourite posts, two with a controversial mix of taxidermy as part of the decor, the other being a stylish Melbourne abode that comfortably melds na...

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