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Budget Breakdown: You’d Never Guess This Serene Family Home Was a Marijuana Grow House

Budget Breakdown: You’d Never Guess This Serene Family Home Was a Marijuana Grow House

Construction Diary: How a California Designer Crafted His New Family Home—On Top of Their First Home

Construction Diary: How a California Designer Crafted His New Family Home—On Top of Their First Home

The Grassroots Race to Save Altadena’s Historic Batchelder Tiles—Before the Bulldozers Move In

The Grassroots Race to Save Altadena’s Historic Batchelder Tiles—Before the Bulldozers Move In

An Earthen Home on the California Coast Bridges the Adirondack and Sea Ranch Styles

An Earthen Home on the California Coast Bridges the Adirondack and Sea Ranch Styles

This Multigenerational Home Near Carmel Is a Slice of Prefab Paradise

This Multigenerational Home Near Carmel Is a Slice of Prefab Paradise

Budget Breakdown: They Built an $830K ADU With Attitude on a Steep Silver Lake Hillside

Budget Breakdown: They Built an $830K ADU With Attitude on a Steep Silver Lake Hillside

A Pristine Bay Area Home by a Lloyd Wright Protégé (Somehow) Had Room for Improvement

A Pristine Bay Area Home by a Lloyd Wright Protégé (Somehow) Had Room for Improvement

Jenni Konner’s Hollywood Pad Is Ready for Its Close-Up

Jenni Konner’s Hollywood Pad Is Ready for Its Close-Up

West African Textiles Inspired This Los Angeles ADU’s Rhythmic Cladding

West African Textiles Inspired This Los Angeles ADU’s Rhythmic Cladding

Bedrooms Step Directly Out Into a Pool at This Sunken Home in Ojai

Bedrooms Step Directly Out Into a Pool at This Sunken Home in Ojai

How Extreme Climate Helped Shape Palm Springs Modernism

How Extreme Climate Helped Shape Palm Springs Modernism

Is GoFundMe the New Insurance?

Is GoFundMe the New Insurance?

Rental Revamp: Kim Swift’s Surreal Silver Lake Home Will Tempt You to Paint Everything

Rental Revamp: Kim Swift’s Surreal Silver Lake Home Will Tempt You to Paint Everything

A Family (Finally) Gives Their Eichler Home a Top-to-Bottom Reboot

A Family (Finally) Gives Their Eichler Home a Top-to-Bottom Reboot

Daft Punk Could Play at This House

Daft Punk Could Play at This House

This Backyard Triumphs Over Trouble to Become an Oasis of Calm

This Backyard Triumphs Over Trouble to Become an Oasis of Calm

A Southern Californian Prefab Is Paradise for the Whole Family

A Southern Californian Prefab Is Paradise for the Whole Family

Before & After: A Falling-Down Farmhouse Gets a Second Chance, Against All Odds

Before & After: A Falling-Down Farmhouse Gets a Second Chance, Against All Odds

What We’re Watching Burn

What We’re Watching Burn

An Idea From the Homeowner’s Father Made Building on This ‘Unbuildable’ Silicon Valley Lot Possible

An Idea From the Homeowner’s Father Made Building on This ‘Unbuildable’ Silicon Valley Lot Possible

Before & After: A Highland Park Fixer-Upper Sings With a New Archway Motif

Before & After: A Highland Park Fixer-Upper Sings With a New Archway Motif

Budget Breakdown: Three Friends Build a $940K Home Near Joshua Tree That Breaks With Boho Vibes

Budget Breakdown: Three Friends Build a $940K Home Near Joshua Tree That Breaks With Boho Vibes

Before & After: A Family (Quite Literally) Fills the Walls of Their Midcentury Home With Memories

Before & After: A Family (Quite Literally) Fills the Walls of Their Midcentury Home With Memories

Rental Revamp: Textile Designer Josie Ford Adds Layers of History to Her 1920s L.A. Apartment

Rental Revamp: Textile Designer Josie Ford Adds Layers of History to Her 1920s L.A. Apartment

Before & After: They Turned a ’70s Tract House Into a Quirky Desert Dream Home

Before & After: They Turned a ’70s Tract House Into a Quirky Desert Dream Home

A Historic Palm Springs Rental Is Transformed With a Riot of Pattern and Color

A Historic Palm Springs Rental Is Transformed With a Riot of Pattern and Color

Budget Breakdown: This $334K Tiny House Popped Up in an L.A. Backyard in Just Two Days

Budget Breakdown: This $334K Tiny House Popped Up in an L.A. Backyard in Just Two Days

Budget Breakdown: Here’s What It Cost to Build Two ADUs on the Same Bay Area Block

Budget Breakdown: Here’s What It Cost to Build Two ADUs on the Same Bay Area Block

A Creative Couple Give a Los Angeles Midcentury a Backyard Recording Studio

A Creative Couple Give a Los Angeles Midcentury a Backyard Recording Studio

Budget Breakdown: This $865K Coastal Dwelling Is So Much More Than a Starter House

Budget Breakdown: This $865K Coastal Dwelling Is So Much More Than a Starter House

Construction Diary: How a Bay Area Couple Rebuilt Their California Ranch Home From the Ground Up

Construction Diary: How a Bay Area Couple Rebuilt Their California Ranch Home From the Ground Up

Before & After: They Brought Their Buff and Hensman Midcentury Back to Its Original Glory

Before & After: They Brought Their Buff and Hensman Midcentury Back to Its Original Glory

Budget Breakdown: He Singlehandedly Gave a ’76 Airstream a Redwood Reinvention for $180K

Budget Breakdown: He Singlehandedly Gave a ’76 Airstream a Redwood Reinvention for $180K

Construction Diary: At Sea Ranch, a Couple Build a “Forever Moving” Home Made to Change With Them

Construction Diary: At Sea Ranch, a Couple Build a “Forever Moving” Home Made to Change With Them

In Joshua Tree, an Artist’s Home and Studio Soaks Up Endless Desert Views

In Joshua Tree, an Artist’s Home and Studio Soaks Up Endless Desert Views

This Little, Blue Silver Lake ADU Hides a Surprisingly Airy Interior

This Little, Blue Silver Lake ADU Hides a Surprisingly Airy Interior

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