• Kitchen of the Week: A 1960s Los Angeles Ranch Home Gets a Modern, Earthy Glow-up,Fan Winston

    Kitchen of the Week: A 1960s Los Angeles Ranch Home Gets a Modern, Earthy Glow-up

    This 1961 ranch-style home in Mandeville Canyon, Los Angeles, was last renovated in the 1990s and, unfortunately, that makeover left much to be desired: “heavy chocolate laminate floors, partition glass, sandstone veneer on the walls/fireplaces,” says architect Patrick Bernatz, of the offending inte

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  • On the Rugged Coast of Ireland, a New ‘Landscape Hotel’ that Puts the Focus on the Outside,Clare Coulson

    On the Rugged Coast of Ireland, a New ‘Landscape Hotel’ that Puts the Focus on the Outside

    Increasingly, vacation time is doing double-duty as a nature fix, an opportunity to be immersed in plants and nature for immediate decompression and reconnection. At Native, a destination on the beautiful wild coast of West Cork in Ireland, they’ve fashioned a new term for it: “a landscape hotel,” w

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  • 10 Easy Pieces: BPA-Free Coffee Makers,Alexa Hotz

    10 Easy Pieces: BPA-Free Coffee Makers

    Let’s be upfront; our original aim was to profile coffee makers that are completely plastic-free, at least in the parts that come into contact with hot water. Plastic components—especially the thin pods used in many single-cup systems—can leach Bisphenol A (BPA) into the resulting brew (reportedly u

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