Weekly Wrap-Up: Reimagining the town house, saving water, suffering a pedicure
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Saturday in print, today in pixels:
Town houses with twists: We found some compelling reasons why Rock Row (top photo) in Eagle Rock sold out so fast. Read the story or check out the photo gallery. In Hollywood, the architecture firm Predock Frane designs clever urban town homes, dubbed Habitat 15; get a peek inside. And in Venice, architect Stephen Vitalich’s four side-by-side houses, above right, offer a different vision for beach-community living.
Gardening with a conscience: Our low-water gardening columnist, Emily Green, explains why gravel is more than cheap rock, and staff writer Susan Carpenter writes about pending changes to the state’s gray-water rules. It’s a shocker: Government may act quickly to make recycling water easier.
Hot Property: It’s the highly rated show that no one admits watching. ‘Dancing With the Stars’ performer Cheryl Burke probably doesn’t care. She has a new post-and-beam in the Hollywood Hills.
Man of the House: Chris Erskine gets a pedicure. No industrial sanders needed, but the idea still hurts.
-- Craig Nakano
Photo credits, clockwise from top: Rock Row bookcase by Barbara Davidson / Los Angeles Times; Venice houses courtesy of SVA Architecture Interiors; gravel by Myung Chun / Los Angeles Times; elephant pedicure at Kiev Zoo in Ukraine by Sergei Supinsky / AFP / Getty Images.
