LA Times Home & Garden Roundup 08.29.09Los Angeles

LA Times Home & Garden Roundup 08.29.09
Los Angeles

In California, we're all about indoor-outdoor living. This week's Los Angeles Times Home and Garden section focuses on the best examples of this in Los Angeles, from a home in Altadena with six outdoor spaces which was built without moving a single tree on the property to a Koreatown terrace that was transformed into an outdoor living room to a home that uses windows outdoors to dramatic effect. Links to these stories and others on the Los Angeles Times website, after the jump...

Florist Walter Huber's Pasadena GardenWhen Bob Huber built his home in Altadena, it was created to take advantage of the dramatic landscape, built on a slope and without moving or cutting down any of the trees. The result includes a series of six terraced outdoor rooms that allow for true indoor-outdoor living.

Peter Gargaliano's Koreatown Apartment Gargaliano transformed the 750 square foot terrace of his apartment into a lush outdoor space that is truly livable.

Window panes on chains hang out at a new home: Claudia Schmutzler uses windows hung on chains from her pergola to create a California version of a New England enclosed porch, creating a sense of privacy without feeling enclosed or claustrophobic.

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How does a florist afford such a grand pad???

posted by mrwhatever on August 29th 2009 at 1:38pm
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California? Outdoor Living?
On my first trip to LA, I saw a pedestrian.
Last year I was in San Diego. Saturday morning, amazing weather, hour long walk thru older, prewar neighborhoods.
I looked hard to find any body walking, who wasn't walking his dog

posted by Nani on August 29th 2009 at 1:47pm
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Silver Birches DOES do amazing (and I'm sure expensive) flower arrangements :)

posted by ushde on August 29th 2009 at 2:01pm
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"How does a florist afford such a grand pad???"

That is because Bob Huber owner of Silver Birches is the who's who of event planners and florist.

posted by LoriSF on August 30th 2009 at 12:29pm
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That first garden needs another layer. Maybe statuary, decorative stones? Check this place out----> http://tr.im/xuH9

posted by chicagoman on August 30th 2009 at 2:17pm
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Your links to the bottom two stories are broken. Here are the correct links (hopefully they hold on longer than the originals did): http://bit.ly/Wktdc & http://bit.ly/Y5Ulg

posted by Damn... someone already took the screen name Mike on August 31st 2009 at 11:09am
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