Saturday, August 1, 2009

LA Times Home Garden Roundup 080109Los Angeles

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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 three homes: in the first, a Palm Springs home, mid-century modern gets mixed up to create something fresh and real; a modernist home in Baldwin Hills is gets its design inspiration from Morocco; in Venice, developer Tom Schey proves that living green and living luxuriously can easily go hand in hand. Links to these stories on the Los Angeles Times website, after the jump...
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Home Tour: A Palm Springs bungalow gets a mostly (but not totally) mid-modern remodel: If this home is in Palm Springs it must be decorated in mid-century modern right? Not in this case. Design Christopher Kennedy mixes it up to create something new and unexpected.A 1950s-era modernist house in Baldwin Hills gets a Moroccan redo Filmmaker Chris Paine transformed a 1950s-era modernist home in Baldwin Hills into a Moroccan oasis. And, perhaps surprisingly, it's also green.Green with bling in Venice: Do you picture living green as spartan, devoid of the sensual pleasures that you dream of when you dream of home? Developer Tom Schey's home in Venice will change your mind. [images: Ricardo DeAratanha / LAT; Maya Myers; Ringo H.W. Chiu for LAT]






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