A single family Craftsman home featuring 2 bedrooms and 1 bathroom downstairs, with a separate office/study has been listed for $790,000 at 2070 Milan Avenue in South Pasadena. Armando Macias is the listing agent. The home features a bonus room and bonus 2nd b... More »
School’s starting and your child has a reading list a mile long. You could get the books from the library but the last library book they had ended up in who-knows-who’s backpack and then disappeared into the ether. That cost you. The only other alternative... More »
The greater Pasadena area is rich in architectural heritage and its historic homes and neighborhoods boast exemplary examples of a range of styles. As a homeowner, the difficult bit is knowing whom to trust when time comes for renovation or expansion. One hi... More »
The pull is in the name. Your friends will envy you the sheer luxury of an hour spent here, and you can rest safe in the knowledge that this is actually good for you – self-indulgent, sure, but good for you. As Tim Cremins, General Manager at Massage Envy So... More »
The Pasadena Chamber of Commerce reported today that 1,120 people took the challenge and voted for their favorite restaurants in the Pasadena Restaurant Week online poll. Voting ended on Sunday, April 1, 2012. (Please note that not everyone voted in each categ... More »
Remember how your imagination was so powerful and so real when you were you a child? Wouldn’t it be delicious to be able to let yourself go… to let the real world morph into a fantasy place of your making, if even only once in a while? Have we got the place fo... More »
Jeff Nott with his father, architect Tom Nott, in their South Pasadena offices Working with a contractor is like a marriage – you give them your trust, money and the keys to your house and you expect mutual trust. Trust is absolutely essential for a partners... More »
Interior Designer Gerald Sowell What happens when you mix two seemingly diametrically opposed interior design styles – east and west, traditional and minimalist? The answer, commonly, is labelled “eclectic,†a convenient reference to elements that don’... More »
New moms and dads are often astonished at how much “stuff†tiny babies seem to need, and how many decisions they have to make, and how difficult it is to make the right choices. Wanting only the best for their kids, they find themselves entangled in long-r... More »
Mark Piscitelli, the irrepressible men’s clothier who retired and closed his landmark shop last June, is back in the game with a wonderful new shop on the corner of Green Steet and Madison Avenue in the Playhouse District. “We like traditionalism with a bit of... More »
 Sitting Room of the Huntington Suite Most of the hassle of a vacation is the travel. What if you could cut out the travel part and just keep the vacation part? Take a trip to a resort hotel here in your own backyard. Checking into the Langham Huntington Hot... More »
If you’re thinking of redoing your kitchen or bathroom with beautiful cabinetry – or, really, overhauling anything in your home that involves wood – you should probably also be thinking about Bill Buck. “Woodworking? It’s in my blood,” he says simply. Fo... More »
