Thanksgiving is about home as much as it is about food. It's about hanging out at home, with family, friends and guests, figuring out ways to occupy the kids and where to put the extra guests. This ...
A home that looks like it came out of a catalogue, from decorator's head, where you can't imagine flopping down on the couch with the dog, don't interest us. Personal, one-of-a-kind, DIY, handmade, u...
Those of us who blog for Apartment Therapy often find ourselves on the receiving end of the question "How do you come up with stuff to write about every day?" Our inspiration comes from our readers,...
Uh Oh! Where has the year gone? We looked in our mailbox today to find the first of our holiday invites. Already? Then we checked the calendar and realized it's only two and a half weeks until Tha...
Scary! Frightening! Haunted! While our job at Apartment Therapy is to make sure that those words don't apply to your home, tonight's the one night that all bets are off. This week's Los Angeles Ti...
Centered around "doing it yourself," is this weekend's Los Angeles Times home section made for us or what? From an Eagle Rock bungalow to a converted smog shop, a barn transformed into a loft and a c...
We're over the 90 degree heat; we loved last week's rainy chilly weather. We're ready for the subtle cooling that is the LA Fall and with it the promise of cozy dinners and classic movie nights at f...
The popularity of Guitar Hero only underlines the collective dream we all have of being a rock star and the lavish lifestyle that goes along with it. In its occassional feature on the homes of music...
One of my strongest memories of my ex-boyfriend is sitting on his couch, his hand on my knee. Couches and couples are a natural pairing and, this week, our picks from the Los Angeles Times Home & Ga...
With our temperate climate the phrase "winter garden" is less of an oxymoron in southern California than in might be in other places. This week's Los Angeles Times Home & Garden section takes a look ...
Is it state of the economy or the environment that's given us a new way of looking at things? We don't know about you but we've noticed that lately we're less about the new and more about the re-purp...
"Fantasy is allowed everywhere" is artist Kenny Scharf's philosophy and that extends to his home and his garden, the focus of this week's Los Angeles Times Home and Garden section. Let it be your phi...
Here in Los Angeles, even if you're not in the film business, you often find your life touched by it, if only by its encouragement to "live your dream," as my friend Z puts it. This week's Los Angele...
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 outdo...
Poll any number of Apartment Therapy readers on their dream home and they're likely to mention a house designed by mid century icon like Richard Neutra and furnished in a mid century modern style. Wh...
The Los Angeles Times website has been remodeled! The Home and Garden section will now include a section called "First Look" focusing on lesser known architecture and interior design firms in Souther...
If you're like us, you're always looking to score a great vintage or secondhand find. If you live in LA, you're in luck. Today's the Designer Tag Sale in Venice (everything under $200) and tomorrow'...
Here on Apartment Therapy we love house tours. Seeing how someone else solves their home's challenges in truly inspirational. This week's Los Angeles Times Home and Garden section takes a look at ...
This week's Los Angeles Times Home & Garden section is for the dogs and let us warn you, it covers some pretty odd subjects, from having your dog's or cat's hair spun into yarn and made into blankets ...
House tours are a great source of inspiration; seeing how someone else has tackled storage solutions, design challenges and complex living arrangements propels you to try it in your own home. This we...
Happy Fourth of July! Whatever you're doing today, we wouldn't be surprised if it involves a body of water. We're at the beach, watching fireworks on the river, escaping to a waterfall or taking adv...
What would it have been like to grow up in Case Study Home No. 22? What would it be like if your home had a big beautiful garden? What's the story behind that big sculpture in Echo Park? The Los An...
This week's Los Angeles Times Home and Garden section rounds up some challenges that may be unique to a recession: sharing gardens and navigating the tricky waters when adult children return home to l...
We're loving the Los Angeles Times' new online format for the Home & Garden section. Its vertical styling makes it easy to track stories from the weekend as well as pick up stories we may have missed...
This month is My Great Outdoors month here at Apartment Therapy. But how does that translate to Los Angeles, where new regulations concerning water use have just gone into effect? One Los Angeleno s...
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