Paint Your Patio Green with Eco Furniture Wanna lounge through summer with a greener conscience? Ease into the sustainable selections from Loll Designs. The Minnesota-based outdoor patio furniture company uses 100 percent post-consumer, recycled HDPE (high-density polyethylene), a commonly used…
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“[Family Shelter] defies your expectations of what a shelter looks like.” – David Snow, Executive Director of Upward Bound House Earlier this year, 18 Los Angeles interior designers offered – pro bono – to revamp 18 units for Upward Bound…
YDT Reports from the West Coast’s Largest Design Event June marks the start of many things, the official launch of summer and the reintroduction of strappy, gladiator sandals. But in Los Angeles, June also begets the heavyweight of design events…
Following World Oceans Day in June, YDT was invited to paddle out with the Santa Monica Baykeeper (SMBK), an environmental non-profit dedicated to marine protection in all of Los Angeles County. SMBK is helping shape California as a front-line leader…
When it comes to foliage, sometimes it’s better to just grow up. That’s our consensus after meeting with living wall expert Miguel Nelson, founder of Woolly Pockets, a Los Angeles-based company that makes hanging and freestanding “pockets” for plants. Nelson’s…
Along with Luca, the Bichon-Terrier mix and designer-cum-shopkeeper Jin Kim, I’m getting a tour of Common Thread Studio in South Pasadena, which Kim opened last April. The window-lit space is feminine, modern and rebellious of every archaic craft store your…
If you’re like me and other green thumb-challenged folks, you’ve killed (i.e. overwatered, underwatered, sunburned, or neglected till death ensued) your share of once-living-breathing plants. We get it; you want to fill your home with impressive flowers and foliage. Unfortunately,…
Since 2006, Santa Monica (by way of Pasadena) designer Melissa Graves has handcrafted her Wellness Bags for hot and cold therapy sessions to treat everything from muscle tension, stress, pain, mastitis, insomnia, sunburns and sinusitis to muscle cramps. Graves, a massage…
NYC transplant and stylist Erin Julie Tavin, owner of Echo Park’s Tavin boutique, is one of the bright spots in the neighborhood these days. After a stint working as a stylist/costumer in the film industry, Erin Tavin opened her dream…
Strip away your reservations for all things leather – it’s not just for cowboys nowadays thanks to Topanga eco-designer Fahmina Khundkar who’s tarnishing the thought that leather can’t be green or is only allowed during certain times of the day….
Many of us have, at some point, been challenged with what to do with an outdated or unwanted sweater. We’re talking about the one that’s brandished with a pattern only the cast from Saved By the Bell would wear. Maybe…
Around 30 million Christmas trees are sold in the U.S. annually according to the National Christmas Tree Association (NCTA), an organization that represents Christmas tree growers. Unfortunately, just 69 percent are recycled into mulch. I’ve unhappily observed too many dumpster-abandoned trees…
This month, both vintage and eco enthusiasts are flocking to Warwick, where during the month of November, the Echo Park boutique on Sunset will be hosting Eco in the Echo, featuring sustainable, locally made and eco-friendly fashion, design and art….
As a parent or not, you’ve more than likely questioned just how healthy our modern, conveniently sterilized lifestyle is all that it’s chalked up to be. Whether it’s wondering how much chlorine is in our tap water, if there’s such…
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