The Palisades Fire burned Charlotte Tragos’s home to the ground. The height chart from when she was a child was marked on the kitchen wall. Family heirlooms filled the cupboards. Her parents ...

The retired 75-year-old Hollywood set painter who worked on movies such as “Ocean’s Eleven” and TV shows including “Star Trek” has been painting watercolor cityscapes of Altadena for the ...

But the mostly basic colourways of black, white and a faux wood effect don’t lend themselves to much self-expression as one would hope – that’s why knowing how to paint IKEA furniture is so useful.