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TORRANCE, CA - June 24, 2026: Esme Saleh is photographed at home in Torrance on Wednesday, June 24, 2026. (Christina House / Los Angeles Times)

After her son’s death, she found a new purpose. ‘He’s whispering: Mom, this is your path’

After suffering the loss of her child, journalist Esme Saleh leaned into her creative side, painting folk art-inspired taper candles as a way to move forward.

LOS ANGELES, CA-JUNE 19, 2026: Julio Miranda-Martin's poses in the living room of his Hollywood apartment in Los Angeles, on Friday, June 19, 2026.

He turned his one-bedroom West Hollywood apartment into an entertainer’s paradise

MT. WASHINGTON, CA - MAY 20, 2026: In this drone view, architect Diego Cano Lasso and wife Belen Rodero, left, purchased two contiguous vacant lots in Mt. Washington and recently completed construction, as an owner-builder, on the second of the two homes, right, which they rent out. Photographed in Mt. Washington, CA on Wednesday, May 20, 2026. (Myung J. Chun / Los Angeles Times)
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He dreamed of a Midcentury compound on an ‘unbuildable’ L.A. hillside. It took 12 years

LOS ANGELES, CA - MAY 14, 2026: Julia Lee, Loyola Marymount University Professor, poses for a portrait in her garden at her home in Cheviot Hills on Thursday, May 14, 2026, in Los Angeles, CA. Lee decided in 2022 to remove her front lawn in Cheviot Hills and replace it with native and drought-tolerant plants. (Kayla Bartkowski / Los Angeles Times)

Her water bill was ‘insane.’ So she tore out her lawn and planted a ‘wabi-sabi’ wonderland

illustration of a house icon with magnifying glass. Flowers and a welcome mat decorate the house.

Fed up with L.A.’s housing market, renters are turning to savvy apartment scouts for help

LOS ANGELES, CA - MARCH 11: Artist Julie Burton at her ADU work studio in Los Angeles on Wednesday, March 11, 2026. (Ariana Drehsler / For The Times)

In her Silver Lake ADU, this L.A. artist turns glass and clay into something magical

A blue shingled mansion

Small spaces surprise and shine at the 2026 Pasadena Showcase House of Design

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