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Los Angeles -- April 21, 2025: Vivian Mo and Michael Trobisch at their Silver Lake home with Architect Warren Techentin on Monday, April 21, 2025. (Amanda Villegas / For The Times)
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They spent $830,000 on a Silver Lake ADU, building a showstopper on a steep hillside

Two homes. Two backyards. A striking ADU appears to float above traffic on a hillside lot in Silver Lake.

photo collage of a motel sign reading "Trixie Motel" near a pool with chairs, and two women loading their SUV
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The 34 coolest, kitschiest, most fascinating motels in California

LOS ANGELES, CA -- APRIL 2, 2025: Dani Dazey at her Highland Park home on Wednesday, April 2, 2025. (Carianne Older / For The Times)

Inside the colorful, over-the-top home of L.A.’s maximalist queen — and her fave tips

A historical photo shows three people standing outside the A. Nakamura grocery store on Terminal Island.

L.A.’s Terminal Island buildings listed among America’s 11 most endangered historic places

Caitlin Villarreal, her cat Zuse, and their Hollywood penthouse in the Whitley Heights.

She transformed a historic Hollywood penthouse into a ‘sanctuary’ with secondhand gems

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Pasadena Playhouse stunner: Back from the brink, theater reclaims control of its building

These SoCal vintage motels have found new life. But you can’t sleep there

You’ll want to be friends with this couple after seeing their quirky, fun apartment

L.A. County officially creates the Grand Avenue Cultural District

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Altadena, CA - February 18: Professional mason Cliff Douglas, right, shows homeowner Valerie Elachi, left, how he is removing her Batchelder and Grueby tiles to be preserved after her home was destroyed by the Eaton fire. The home was built for Zane Grey's longtime secretary, which was built in the Pueblo Revival style with two sizable fireplaces. A group of volunteers in Altadena who are working to save historic arts-and-crafts tiles from the hearths of destroyed homes before the U.S. Army Corps tears down the rubble. Photo taken in Altadena Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2025. Masons are carefully chiseling the tiles from their mortar, saving them and eventually, preserving them so homeowners can rebuild their fireplaces in their new homes. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)

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‘The only thing still left.’ Volunteers race to save Altadena’s vintage tiles from the bulldozers

Meet the volunteers who are scrambling to save vintage tiles from homes in the Altadena burn zone before the bulldozers arrive.

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