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Happy Fourth of July! Whatever you're doing today, we wouldn't be surprised if it involves a body of water. We're at the beach, watching fireworks on the river, escaping to a waterfall or taking advantage of friends with pools. This week's Los Angeles Times Home & Garden section takes a look at three unique Southern Californian pools. Pools figured in may of the drool-worthy Dwell on Design house tours we featured this week which may have caused some frustration among those of you who're considering building a home. If custom-design is just out of your budget, you might consider Hometta, a new firm that's selling architectural plans for what it calls small, sustainable houses. Or maybe you're just considering a kitchen renovation and are looking at kitchen cabinetry. For ages there's been two choices: high-end or Ikea. Viola Park, a division of custom cabinetmaker Henrybuilt, aims to fill that void. Links to these stories on the Los Angeles Times website, and more, after the jump...
Welcome to Escapes Month at Apartment Therapy! Here are five amazing reader escapes from the New York archives (all info below).
Join us by sending in your own pictures or links to your favorite summer escapes. In return, if we post you, we'll send you the Apartment Therapy t-shirt of your choice. Whether it's a summer place, a roof deck, a lake house, a hotel, a tent or a B&B in a foreign country, we're looking to share the touches, tips and inspiration that are brought home. Share your travel wealth. All info below...
Here are all the sales across the country that are fit to print - painstakingly collected by our editorial team of over 70 bloggers across the country. This is only place on the web where they are all in one place. You can also get this delivered to you via email each Friday (see subscription box on upper left)...
You don't have to jump on a plane to "get away" for an escape. The thing we love about Los Angeles is its proximity to a myriad of destinations that quickly and easily ease one into a completely different state of mind, whether it be hiking on a coastal trail, taking a boat ride out to Catalina Island, visiting a waterfall near Solvang (it's where we're heading Saturday), or eastward into the glamorous desert locales or rustic mountain hideaways. And of course, there are plenty of resort destinations right here in Los Angeles that can pamper you for a few days in style if you don't really want to get away all too far...
During hot seasons around the world, it has long been a tradition that people would travel or decamp to whatever cooler places they could find, whether it was the mountains, the lakes or the sea. The types of homes they would devise for themselves were often of the simplest kinds, meant only for a those warm summer weeks or months that they could get away.
In addition to the coolness this allowed, there was also the enjoyment of a simpler life in these temporary homes and it was often felt that the simplicity and closeness to nature was enriching in itself. This simpler life balanced the complicated, machine oriented life of the cities and was an opportunity to refresh family and community. Why do you escape?
When the co-owners of Michael Jackson's Neverland Ranch opened the doors to the public yesterday, The New York Times photographer Jim Wilson was there. Though the 13,000 square foot main house and the grounds were cleared out 5 years ago, the evidence of an opulent lifestyle is still in place (ferris wheel footings, gold-plated bathroom fixtures, gigantic home theater, the train station, etc)...
A getaway on a Jeff Koons' yacht? A Costa Rican Hotel built from an airplane? Or perhaps you'd rather stay in the Zaha Hadid room at Madrid's Hotel Puerta America? Check out these extreme escapes from Apartment Therapy Boston...
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