Articles by Mitchell Parker
Houzz Tour: Rock Musician’s Tiny House Wakes Up the Neighborhood (12 photos)
Asha Mevlana likes to make noise. She’s an electric violinist who tours with the Trans-Siberian Orchestra rock band every year, and who has performed with Roger Daltrey of The Who, Alanis Morissette and other top musicians. Her on-the-road…
How to Get Rid of Gnats Around the House (5 photos)
If you want to know how to get rid of gnats, the first thing you need to do is understand what kind of bug you’re dealing with. The word gnat is a sort of catch-all term for any swarming fly, and people use the term colloquially to identify a range of bugs inside and outside the house. Generally, if…
New This Week: 5 Kitchen Island Shapes You Haven’t Thought Of (9 photos)
Good design solves a problem. Often that means throwing away convention. When it comes to kitchen islands, consider the common rectangular shape just a starting point. The following designs show how changing the shape of an island can create better ci…
Kitchen of the Week: Bright and Happy for an L.A. Makeup Artist (14 photos)
For a makeup artist in Los Angeles who wears bright lipstick and makes her own kombucha, her gunmetal-gray kitchen hardly provided the kind of spunk she longed for. In search of a pick-me-up, she reached out to designer Lucie Ayres to make her galley-…