Lisa Boone is a features writer for the Los Angeles Times. Since 2003, she has covered home design, gardening, parenting, houseplants, even youth sports. She is a native of Los Angeles.
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Lisa Akey and Blake Steury traded their five-bedroom house in Canyon Country for a Craftsman bungalow in Atwater Village, updating it with thrifted finds, family heirlooms and their own designs.
A powerful, brief downpour sent Disneyland visitors scrambling for cover Friday night, closed rides and flooded parts of Frontierland as workers tried to clear backed-up drains.
The historic Mt. Waterman Ski Resort, one of Southern California’s steepest ski resorts and only an hour from downtown Los Angeles, was relisted for sale on Wednesday at $3,275,000.
“America’s Got Talent” executive producer Sam Donnelly loved her Studio City home but hated her ADU, describing it as “ugly and modern.” A modest upgrade transformed it into a warm retreat.
There’ll be clam chowder on a floating barge, thrifting on Retro Row and a ride on an electric Duffy boat in Long Beach.
Vintage-inspired mini golf in San Clemente. Mai tais on a sunken ship in Anaheim. Sprawling red rocks in Trabuco Canyon. It’s time to go deeper into great, big, always juicy O.C.
After a cancer diagnosis, two L.A. musicians turned their Topanga A-frame cabin into a sanctuary, reshaping every room — and garden — to prioritize serenity, views and healing.
Skip the usual stops like the San Diego Zoo and Legoland. Instead, check out these independent shops in lively shopping districts for your next weekend getaway to San Diego.
Working with architects FreelandBuck, two teachers added a a stunning 400-square-foot ADU above their two-car garage that ‘floats’ above Eagle Rock and Highland Park.
A maximalist salon collides with a backstage circus dressing room in the Silver Lake apartment of stylist Wendi Weger, whose delightful fusion of art and fashion is behind the Curatorial Dept. in Atwater Village.