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 Thanksgiving and the start of the crazy chaotic holiday season. We're trying to put some last minute touches on our home. We're tidying up our garden, we're decluttering, we're decorating and we're busting out Mom and Dad's old-school vinyl collection as the soundtrack to our chores. When we're finished at home, we'll scope out the sales around town and online. Turn to this week's Los Angeles Times Home & Garden section to help you out...
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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 Times Home & Garden section spotlights a home where those are exactly the words the owners want to hear. Maybe you'd rather dress up your house than get dressed up in a costume? Get out of your comfort zone and try on something for your home that's a little out of the ordinary: a few new ideas in the garden; colourful George Nelson Bubble Lamps; or, flamboyantly bold Lilly Pulitzer sheets. Links to these stories and more, after the jump...
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Last night, we made ourselves a cup of tea and settled into bed early to read the third book in the Twilight series. Suddenly, a door swung open and then slammed, the lock jiggled, there was a series of creaks that seemed to shuffle across the floor. Our heart raced. Who was there? Had we somehow conjured up the vampires and werewolves we were reading about...or was it something more sinister. Like a character in a bad movie, we got up to investigate...
Apart from a great cup of coffee, a great bathroom can start your day off on the right foot. Unfortunately, if you rent, your hands are tied. You can't exactly start ripping out tiles and replacing fixtures. But you can do a couple of things that will take your bathroom from drab to fab...







Flu-mania is making people a little nuts. My mother leaves constant reminders to get a flu shot; at my office they've handed out masks, anti-bacterial gel and wipes with instructions to wipe down our phones, computer keyboards and desks before we leave each night; and, a friend of mine turned to me the other night while we were watching "Glee" and said, "You know that woman who wears plastic gloves to do everything? I'm thinking maybe she's not so crazy after all."
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With the approach of colder weather and more time spent indoors with the windows closed, we're more conscious of the scents in our home. Usually we burn candles but since we discovered that some friends are allergic, we've come up with other ways they can perfume their home...


