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No Accounting for Taste
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house tour!

Oh hey, what’s up? If you recall a few weeks ago, I mentioned that I might have a house tour on the internets sometime soon. I was right! Check it out here.

36 min ago

it can’t be helped

I have clearly become obsessed with motorcycles. I passed my motorcycle safety foundation course last weekend, and Rosie is now running – although I have yet to actually have a date with her, s...

6 days ago

frankoma pottery

I started a ceramics class last week. Since I’m the only designer in my department at work that didn’t go to art school, I’m even more aware of the making-things-by-hand skills I mi...

15 may 12

me

I believe this is what they refer to on tumblr as “gpoy.” I learned that this means “gratuitous picture of yourself.” I’m busy cleaning my kitchen tonight so I didn̵...

09 may 12

yeah, it’s on

Also, just real quick: His and hers. My deep affection for all things vintage has finally spilled over into the transportation category, and yesterday I bought this equal-parts-badass-and-adorabl e ma...

08 may 12

fiesta!

So, I was on vacation last week. The man and I went to Palm Springs, which, if I had remembered to take any pictures, is pretty much exactly the right visual substance for my weblog. We stayed at one...

08 may 12

a painting primer

This weekend I gave my bathroom a little facelift. It was the only room in my apartment I hadn’t done anything with yet, and it was way overdue. Not only was it not pretty, but it wasn’t ...

30 apr 12

georges briard

By far the most popular post on the blog that I recently lost was the one about Georges Briard, the nom de design of a brilliant mid-century housewares designer. Briard designs were so numerous and w...

26 apr 12

35 square foot bathroom.

This is the topic of this weekend’s project. I think once I had all my other rooms the way I wanted them, I started thinking about moving. I thus never got around to designing/fancifying my bat...

25 apr 12

the thrifty guide

In the earlier iteration of my weblog, I had a page entitled The Thrifty Guide. It was basically a list of a few flea markets and some thrift stores I frequented when I lived on the west side, along ...

24 apr 12

love history, LA, and have the next hour free?

Then you’ll love the Lost Los Angeles channel on YouTube that my friend KT just alerted me to. It’s an amazing collection of old LA videos that show streets and buildings of our fair city...

24 apr 12

small cool apartments

I decided to enter the Apartment Therapy Small Cool contest this year. It’s been sort of a goal of mine since I started following the blog in 2006, and this year seemed like a pretty good time ...

20 apr 12

flags!

A few months ago, I found some pretty sweet nautical flags at the Long Beach flea market. I think I paid $2 for all of them. Yes, that is fake grass. According to wikipedia, I am very close to having...

18 apr 12

so that’s it then

As of today, April 17, I am officially suspending my campaign for Tenant of Echo Park. I fought a valiant campaign and had a lot of supporters, and I’ve learned a lot over the last four months....

18 apr 12

who needs a printer?

I was going to assemble yard sale signs by printing Futura Bold in red over old maps, but I couldn’t get my printer to work (alright fine, I just don’t understand where the paper goes, ok...

16 apr 12

angeleno / angelino heights: LA’s first suburb

Which is it? It depends on whom you ask. Some of the signs identifying the neighborhood as LA’s first Historic Preservation Overlay Zone (I took historic preservation in law school so I sort of...

15 apr 12

more diy cat junk

You know what makes these great? Oilcloth. I mean, there’s real oilcloth, and then there’s the bright Mexican vinyl-coated fabric-like product known today as oilcloth, comme çi: I bought ...

15 apr 12

diy cat things

I like cats. I like saving money. I also like making things. And while I really appreciate companies that are trying to make Dwell-worthy litter boxes and rustic salvaged wood scratching posts, somet...

12 apr 12

just a couple more.

If you didn’t get your historical photo fill with the LAPL site, Metro also has a little Flickr pool. Echo Park Ave, circa 1950s Echo Lake circa 1940 That is all.

12 apr 12

yard sale!

Regardless of whether I actually get to move anytime soon, I’ve been realizing lately that I have a lot of things. Things that are pretty, but I haven’t used and haven’t enjoyed, so...

11 apr 12

echo park

Whenever I move to a new neighborhood (or in this case, just want to move to a new neighborhood) I nurse my crush by delving in to obscure local history. The LA public library is great for this; you ...

10 apr 12

just keep moving.

I’ve lived in LA for almost ten years, and in that time I’ve lived in seven apartments/houses. My twenties were pretty tumultuous: I changed careers, began and ended relationships, lost s...

05 apr 12

you win some, you lose some.

I had some pretty good intentions here: I’d been neglecting this thing, promising myself that someday I’d pick it back up. I decided one night to do just that, and after believing I’...

03 apr 12

crate.

22 mar 12

things I saw and liked

at the Pasadena City College this weekend, which is, by the way, held rain or shine since much of it is essentially indoors. I bought a giant warm fuzzy sweater (not pictured).

08 nov 11

a few things seen in iowa

I’m sitting in the airport in Des Moines waiting for my flight home to Los Angeles (via Denver, which is one of my favorite airports ever). My mother moved into a lovely 130-year old Victorian ...

18 oct 11

tattoo parlour

So, I’m thinking about getting a tattoo. So much so that my friends and coworkers are sick of hearing me talk about it and look at revisions, and frankly, I’m getting sick of thinking abo...

08 sep 11

kitchen!

I’ve also been doing a lot of work in my very narrow kitchen. There’s not a lot I love about postwar apartment architecture in LA, but almost all of them from the late 40′s and 50&#...

10 aug 11

new living room, again

Well hey, what’s up? Oh, you know, just thought I’d spend the last few months intensively redecorating my living room again, no big deal. That red/pink/orange wall color was pretty sweet,...

09 aug 11

haiti

I just returned from a week giving shoes and other things to kids in Haiti. This shows nothing of that, but I think it’s one of my favorite pictures I took. This painting was so unlike anything...

24 may 11

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