Home & Garden
AFM Safecoat
18424 Ventura Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA, 91356
When buying paint, you know to watch out for VOCs, or volatile organic compounds…
Neighborhood: Los Angeles, Tarzana
Category: Home & Garden, Painters
Arcadian Flooring Co.
308 S. Palm Ave., Los Angeles, CA, 91803
626-284-1563
Five hundred years ago, stoneworkers in Italy recycled chips of marble into cement and created a new kind of beautiful, long-lasting flooring that stood up to untold abuse…
Neighborhood: Alhambra, Los Angeles
Category: Floor Coverings, Home & Garden
Barbeques Galore
11021 West Pico Blvd., Los Angeles, CA, 90064
310-914-9693
Gas may be America’s favorite way to grill. But it doesn’t produce barbecue—a celebration of meat, cooked low and slow, always with wood…
Neighborhood: Los Angeles, West Los Angeles
Category: Home & Garden, Outdoor Furnishings
Birding Supplies
4337 Woodman Ave, Sherman Oaks
(818) 995-0022
The emphasis at Wild Wings is to bring the birds to you, though the owners also lead periodic walks to avian-rich locales in Los Angeles County. The Sherman Oaks operation stocks backyard feeders and birdhouses that encompass a wide range of species, from woodpeckers to bluebirds to owls. The seed mixes are blended specifically with […]
Category: Best of LA, Best of LA 2016: Shop, Best of LA: 2016, Best of LA: Shop, Outdoor Furnishings, Outdoor Recreation
Blueprint
8600 W. Pico Blvd., Los Angeles, CA, 90035
310-657-4315
Best Home Office Furniture, August 2011
Neighborhood: Pico-Robertson
Category: Furniture, Home & Garden
Boston Brick & Stone
2005 Lincoln Ave., Los Angeles, CA, 91103
626-296-7700
Recommended by the Pasadena Heritage and West Adams Heritage associations, the masons at Boston Brick & Stone have rebuilt chimneys in homes…
Neighborhood: Los Angeles, Pasadena
Category: Chimney, Chimney Cleaning & Repair, Home & Garden, Services
Bountiful Gardens
10150 Foothill Blvd., CA, 91342
818-389-3864
Best Espaliered Trees, August 2014 Gardeners who are short on space have long relied on espaliered trees—those arboreal works of art whose branches are pruned to grow flat against a wall or as a living fence. At Bountiful Gardens, David Diaz goes beyond the usual grower-supplied fruits like lemon, pear, and plum. He’s coaxed his […]
Neighborhood: Lake View Terrace
Category: Best of LA, Best of LA 2014: Shop, Best of LA: 2014, Best of LA: Shop, Florists, Landscaping, Shopping
Cactus Ranch
19420 Saticoy St., Los Angeles, CA, 91335
818-894-5694
There’s no shortage of prickly riches at Pasadena’s California Cactus Center…
Category: Home & Garden, Home and Garden
Cal Blend Soils
1270 Arrow Hwy., Los Angeles, CA, 91706
Cal Blend Soils has long been the go-to source for landscape designers making over posh estates, but it’s happy to offer mounds of fertile earth for the casual DIY-er.
Neighborhood: Irwindale
Category: Best of LA, Best of LA 2013: Shop, Best of LA: 2013, Home & Garden, Home and Garden
California Cactus Center
216 S. Rosemead Blvd., Los Angeles, CA, 91107
626-795-2788
California Cactus Center carries staples such as flowering echeveria and hardy kalanchoe…
Category: Home & Garden, Home and Garden
California Synthetic Turf & Lawn
14347 Albers St., Los Angeles, CA, 91401
310-595-5516
We don’t normally encourage artificial appearances, except in the case of fake grass…
Neighborhood: Los Angeles, Van Nuys
Category: Home & Garden, Home and Garden
Classic Design
19771 Magellan Dr., Los Angeles, CA, 90502
310-324-1600
In a nondescript warehouse a few blocks off the 405 freeway and Vermont Avenue, Raoul Brenassay…
Neighborhood: Los Angeles, Torrance
Category: Furniture, Home & Garden, Upholstery & Furniture Repair
Colony Wood Screening
555 S. Ohio St., Anaheim, CA, 92807
714-778-1277
Because Andrews doesn’t use precut molds—standard three-by-five window casements shift too much on old homes—he creates what is essentially custom furniture for windows…
Category: Home & Garden, Window & Door
Computer Business Center
10600 Pico Blvd., Los Angeles, CA, 90064
800-448-1892
Joseph Jacobson knows your PC is fried just from the smell…
Category: Appliance Repair, Home & Garden, Services
Cox Paint
11153 Washington Blvd., Los Angeles, CA, 90401
310-838-2284
At Cox Paint, you can bring in just about any object for color matching…
Category: Home & Garden, Interior Decoration & Design
Custom Creations
5143 Crown Ave., Los Angeles, CA, 91011
818-790-8706
Using metal, hardwoods, and concrete, McGaughy will match a border to just about any architectural style…
Neighborhood: La Cañada Flintridge, Los Angeles
Category: Fencing, Home & Garden
Diamond Foam & Fabric
611 S. La Brea Ave., Los Angeles, CA, 90036
323-931-8148
In its four buildings on La Brea’s decorator row, Diamond stocks more than 15,000 bolts of curtain and upholstery fabric…
Neighborhood: Los Angeles, West Hollywood
Category: Home & Garden, Home Furnishings
Dock Downtown
1481 E. 4th St., Los Angeles, CA, 90033
323-446-0281
The Dock Downtown is a solution for those with an executive’s taste but a working stiff’s budget…
Neighborhood: Downtown
Category: Home & Garden, Home Furnishings