Hollywood Renovation: Week 10

Articles

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  Taalman/Koch Renovation Recap

  For the past six months, Linda Taalman of Taalman Koch Architecture has been blogging for Dwell.com about her hands-on renovation of her family's live-work rental apartment in Los Angeles. The…

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  Hollywood Renovation: Week 6

  In this exclusive series for Dwell.com, Linda Taalman of Taalman Koch Architecture tracks the hands-on renovation of her and her partner's live-work space in Hollywood, California. Week 6:…

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  Hollywood Renovation: Week 9

  This week the plan was to transform the back garden into a lush California native garden inspired in part by Maui, where we just returned from vacation. However, it has been raining almost every…

Products

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  Garden Water Boost Box

  The Garden Water Boost Box will help you save up to 25% of the water you generally use in the garden, or thousands of gallons of perfectly good water every year.

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  Garden Tools

  Brightly hued, these tools will ensure that simple gardening tasks won’t leave you stuck in the weeds. And their ruby redness is practical—you’ll never lose sight of them no…

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  Rainy Day Garden

  Gardening seems to be the rare activity that almost any kid will slow down to take part in, perhaps because the waiting – with all of the mysterious goings-on underground – can be every…

Dwell Collections

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  A Look at Kitchen Renovations

  A collection of some of our favorite kitchen renovations from our archives.

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  10 x 10: Dwell & Arkitip Artist Series

  To celebrate our 10th anniversary here at Dwell, we've collaborated with art magazine Arkitip and asked 10 artists to produce illustrations of 10 houses featured in the magazine. Stop by the…

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  10 Benches

  April showers have brought May flowers and now is the ideal time to retreat to the outdoors and idle away spring's sunny afternoons. We've rounded up ten of our favorite benches that form the…

Tips

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  Stick Around during a Renovation

  I learned during our kitchen renovation that it really is a full-time job. If you want it done right and according to your vision, and not that of your contractor, be available. Make sure every…

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  What Lies Beneath...the Cabinets

  We needed a cheap way to update our 1970s kitchen cabinets, so we turned the cabinets inside-out to use the simple frame of the interior instead of the elaborate curvy countryish look of the…

Videos

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  New Prospects: The Sherman Residence

  In this video accompanying our September 2011 My House story, architect Jeff Sherman guides us through his airy Brooklyn rowhouse—a onetime dilapidated dog kennel—which he painstakingly renovated…

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  Building Green in Harlem: A Green Brownstone?

  In this video series, Dwell follows a New York couple with a passion for building green through the challenges—and triumphs—of renovation, from finding the design-build team to…

Events

• Garden Talk: Urban Agriculture

  Whether it’s a backyard vegetable patch or a farming co-op in the city, more and more people are embracing the idea of locally grown food and sustainable gardening. Learn more in this talk by…

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  Vertical Gardens DIY Workshop

  Join us for a workshop at Flora Grubb Gardens on how to create interior and exterior vertical gardens utilizing the Woolly Pockets systems. By inserting living elements into unexpected and…

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  LA Garden Show

  The largest outdoor gardening event on the West Coast has evolved into a prestigious community gathering, as well as a premier industry event for gardening aficionados and professionals in…