Riiiiiight where The 818 and Hollywood converge, sits the Millard Kaufman Residence — a dreamy house built in 1949 and later expanded by Richard Neutra. It’s listed at 2.5 million dollars, which I don’t have, but if I did, you could bet your ass I would be moving in like, this weekend. Which like, fuck you forever LA real estate market, because… Read more →
Category: Design
10 Ways to Live Through Your Remodel (hopefully with a grain of sanity)
And when I say live through the remodel, I mean that literally. We added a master bedroom and bath and figured if we shifted ourselves around a bit, we could just stay home while adding on and save the added expense of renting a part-time shelter. How sweet and naïve. Too many mornings to count I’d barely be taking my first… Read more →
I can’t stop thinking about dumpsters.
Look, you know this thing with us building a container house is getting kind of hot and heavy when I’m obsessively looking at pictures of people’s dumpster pools. At the moment, I’m romancing the idea of buying a disgusting fixer and then awesomeizing it with some sweet custom shipping containers and creating us a little slice of hillside DIY heaven rather than… Read more →
Textures (Dwell On Design, 2014)
I dunno, I’m just like really super in to textures right now, y’know? Read more →
Eye Candy: Highlights from Dwell on Design 2014
This past weekend we trucked over the hill for Dwell on Design 2014 at the LA Convention Center where the grass truly was greener and totally sustainable, recycled and synthetic, natch. It also housed every prefab I could ever had dreamed of getting inside of. It’s amazing what these guys can erect in two hours. C’mon. You know what I… Read more →
Shipping Container Homes
Lately I’ve got this bug up my butt. Scott and I have always wanted to build a house. We’ve bounced back and forth between prefab homes and stick building, weighing price per sq ft vs. carbon footprint and all kinds of other annoying things like that. Sometimes logistics hold us back. Sometimes it’s finances. Sometimes it’s just life. Building a house… Read more →
Get Your Zen On With Grown-Up Coloring Books
It’s a sad day here in the San Fernando Valley — our local Sanrio store is going out of business. Gone are the days of Kerokerokeroppi and 20 color pens within walking distance, and so when Delilah and I discovered the news on a recent trip to the mall, I decided we could each choose one thing to remember Hello Kitty’s motley… Read more →
Tattoo Test Drive: Temp Tats for Grown-Ups
[me sporting Feather, by Jen Mussara] It’s weird, as a kid I thought I was being all responsible to my future self by not getting visible tattoos (I have three easy-to-cover tattoos, but nothing on my arms/back/chest/neck/etc.). Now, as an adult, I’m all about visible ink, and getting ready to take the plunge. Which is why Tattly makes me all… Read more →
Dee’s Sculptural Headband Holder
My friend Nick made this for her, and I’ve been meaning to show it to you guys forever. Because it’s freaking awesome. Not only did it solve our overflowing headband problem (headbands have been the only form of hair-restraint Dee will allow for quite some time) but it’s oh so pretty. Like a little sculpture for her bedside table. Which makes… Read more →
Pure Inspiration: Mica Hendricks & Her Four Year Old Make Beautiful Collaborations
Maybe you’ve seen this already. A few weeks ago it seems to have made quite the splash on the Internet, but I am just a little too wrapped up in my own mind at the moment to stay abreast of all the good things the Internet has to offer lately. I’ll shake it off shortly. Illustrator, graphic designer, and fellow… Read more →