Artist and professor Gilah Hirsch has lived in her Venice home since 1974, and she has no plans to leave. Rather, she continues to make it into a very personal space. To get a feeling for Gilah’s home, you could study one of her paintings: mysterious, mystical, flowing, teeming with nature. According to a review…
Wes Craven, the 67-year-old director of “Scream” and “Nightmare on Elm Street,” filed a lawsuit in Los Angeles Superior Court last week against Pauly Shore, the 39-year-old “Encino Man” star, for damage to Craven’s home allegedly caused by Shore’s horror-inducing home improvements. Shore has reportedly denied the charges. Specifically, the suit alleges, poorly done renovation…
From the Bloom Where You Are Planted Incarcerated Dept.: Next time I go to jail, Martha Stewart will be my role model, not Paris Hilton. Martha took her sentence like a woman. She said: Let’s do this thing. And she got it done. Maybe Martha’s five months in the slammer were easier to handle than…
Patching a crack in concrete Los Angeles Times Building a deck: There’s a material difference Los Angeles Times Green remodeling: One room at a time HGTV Pro Countywide Home Loans offers ‘One-Time Close Major Renovation Loan’ PR Web Modern homemakers: More and more women are taking remodeling and repairs into their own hands Fort Worth…
This is not so much a Remodeling Rant as it is a Remodeling Regret. As reader Jeannie reports: "I recently had my carpets replaced throughout the house with wood. However, I regret settling for ‘engineered wood,’ which is supposed to be ‘real wood’ but made of a composite compressed with a thin top layer of…
Reader Babbette has been kind enough to share some of what she’s learned in 20 years of owning, fixing and remodeling homes. Read this post. This is gold: First, and most important: Think of remodeling as an engineering project. Things will go wrong. Expect them to go wrong. Be ready to be flexible. Have a…
Today’s Remodeling Rant comes to us from reader Dawn Bowen. She rants: “The worst thing about a remodel is FINDING THE RIGHT PEOPLE — people who are honest about their abilities, who show up when they’re supposed to, who do quality work (i.e., do it “right,” not half-assed) and who do not destroy all of…
Frank is in a pickle. He’s having his house painted and his wife thinks he’s getting fleeced. What do you think? Here’s Frank’s story: "I’m having my house painted. It is a one-story stucco with 2,000 square feet of floor space with lots of fascia trim and tall, floor-to-ceiling windows with mullions and headers (about…
Today’s Remodeling Rant comes to us from Ray Lancon: “I’m in the middle of my first remodel as part of my first adventure in real estate. I was told the remodel was going to be done April 27th. I’M STILL NOT MOVED IN. The most recent bump was the floor guy. Naively, I gave him…
This week’s Wednesday Rant comes to us from Los Angeles serial remodeler and real estate agent David Kean. His Rant: "The WORST THING about remodeling is by far getting anyone to show up as scheduled or at all. No one seems to want to do the medium to small jobs anymore. When someone actually calls…