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I love what's been done with the bungalow. I'm a Pasadenean of nearly fifty years and lived in a craftsman bungalow for twenty of them. Although I left the wooden floors in a dark brown color, I also painted the walls white (off white). Light is important here.

Most of my neighbors were living in craftsman bungalows or craftsman houses as my entire neighborhood, walking distance from the Gamble House, is on the national, historic registry. Some neighbors left their craftsman houses/bungalows in the original dark colors and others lightened them up and gave them a more contemporary look. It's about what suits one best as it's the resident that has to live in it from day to day.

My current residence is early 1950s, but I don't have the interior looking like the early 1950s. Some original features have been left in, but I have moved on and have blended in a Southeast Asian look into the design and it works very well.


Traci's Incredible South Pasadena Craftsman
House Tour
6/22/12 7:51 PM

Love it and it's so Silver Lake! I have friends who live in Silver Lake. I'm a Pasadenean.

I LOVE your outdoor space. In our family house, while growing up and still today, we have for 45 years had such an outdoor space. There's furniture outside along with a 7-foot tall, three-foot wide, brick grill with counter space and cook top. The gorgeous brick grill set up came with the house.

We still love entertaining outdoors and can easily invite 100 people over with no problem. For decades our place was party central and we'd also invite the neighbors over as they'd ask when we would be throwing the next get together. So never a neighbor problem. LOL! And all the houses on our family-house street have similar types of outdoor set ups and also a lot of land.


Leslie's Mid Century Optimism
House Tour
5/26/12 1:33 AM

Typo correction: "easily" not "easy".


Blythe's Bohemian West Hollywood Cottage House Tour
5/13/12 11:51 AM

"@TSPInteriorDesign thanks for clarifying the dog breed :)

West Hollywood is not a inexpensive neigborhood by any means and bars on windows are pretty common in many neigborhoods, its LA."

Exactly. It's not an inexpensive neighborhood. A 1,000 foot, fixer-upper bungalow can easy go for $600,000. I've lived in L.A. County, Pasadena, for over forty-five years.

As for bars on windows, some people prefer bars on their windows and some don't. West Hollywood is very busy and densely populated. And if I were living in such a busy area, I might put some decorative bars on first-floor windows being female and especially since I'm back and forth between the U.S. and overseas. I'd probably feel my property and myself more secure having some bars. It is a big city and even friends who live in Beverly Hills, Brentwood, and other such areas have some form of security, usually in the form of an alarm system though.

At my present residence, I live on the second floor of two floors, but before now lived, for 20 years, in a Pasadena craftsman bungalow without bars or an alarm system, but quite secure with locked gates and high fences. And before the bungalow, I lived 20 years in our family home without bars or an alarm system. Different comfort zones for different folks.

I love the West Hollywood bungalow featured. It's very cozy and personalized and not magazine generic.


Blythe's Bohemian West Hollywood Cottage House Tour
5/12/12 10:36 PM

The above is great info to know. I just happened to stumble upon this website while on google trying to find the company that makes Allaire fans.

I bought two, desk top, Allaire fans in spring 2006 and they have been great. I bought both at Restoration Hardware; one in The Valley and one in Pasadena.I have had no problems with either and the one that I use in my bedroom I leave running all night all of the summer months and part of the spring months as it's blazing hot inside.

I was just sitting here wondering where I would get the fan fixed if it broke down and then I came upon this website. I also wanted to contact the Allaire company to ask if they will be making the same fan in either brown or pistachio green again. I bought the small, desk top one in brown and the medium-sized desk top one in pistachio green back in 2006. I'd love to buy a couple more in those colors as a silver-colored fan would totally clash with my gold-tone hardware and picture frames found throughout my residence. And black would also not work out as the color is too heavy.

I haven't been able to find, online, the company that actually produces the fan. Maybe I'll contact Restoration Hardware today.


LA Good Question: Local Fan Repair Shops?
5/5/12 11:54 AM