A journal of home, belonging & becomingLos Angeles, California
A Beautiful Place to Begin.

There is an art to making room for a life.

A living room in our Westwood home with green ceiling beams, striped armchairs, sofas, and a fireplace.
House portrait 01   /   Westwood

At home
in Westwood.

Come in. There’s room at the table.

Step inside
Westwood · Los AngelesPhotography from the LARNB collection
Volume 01   /   The meaning of homeNew: Echo Park — The Cottages   ↗
A different idea
of what shelter can be.

Beauty is not the reward for a life transformed. It belongs at the beginning.

We’re Los Angeles Room & Board. We started with a question about our students. How do you make it through college when you’re still figuring out where to sleep or what you’ll eat tonight? Our answer begins with a home and a good dinner. The young people who move in take it from there.

We want to be the kind of neighbors who invite you over. In Echo Park, we carved pumpkins together, then invited everyone back for movie night. A hundred neighbors showed up. We played Coco for the kids and saved the scary movie for later.

The neighborhoods

Three neighborhoods. One belief.

Rooted in Los Angeles
The living

Look who’s in the house.

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Room & Board / The other half of home

Love,
served daily.

If you want to know us, spend some time in the kitchen. Chef Andra leads the team that puts dinner on the table for our young people and pulls out all the stops for Friendsgiving.

Around here, you can also get your hands in the dough and learn to make your own pizza. That’s the “board” in our name.

Come to the table
From LARNB’s kitchen, with care.
A quiet corner, thoughtfully considered. Westwood.
The spaces   /   A house portrait

The art of
feeling at home.

Green-painted beams. A piano beside the window. A comfortable chair in a patch of afternoon light. The rooms in our Westwood home invite a closer look.

This was the first home we opened for students. We wanted anyone coming back from class to have a place to put their feet up, find a quiet table to study, or sit down beside somebody.

Explore Westwood
New house portrait   /   Boyle Heights

The beauty
of belonging.

A courtyard framed by arches. Flowers that climb the walls in paint and in leaf. A little shade, a quiet table, and an invitation to stay awhile.

Come on talent night and that same courtyard is a stage. Students sing, dance, and cheer each other on under the arches of our Spanish Colonial Mission home.

Explore Boyle Heights
Arches, greenery, and room to gather. Boyle Heights.
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House portrait 03 / Echo Park — The Cottages

A little village.
A place to belong.

Cottages among the trees. Sunlight across a shared living room. A favorite chair, a kitchen, a quiet corner. In Echo Park, home unfolds at a different scale.

Explore The Cottages through eighteen moving portraits of the spaces that make everyday life feel considered.

Step into Echo Park
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The living / Life in the houses

The house
comes to life.

A welcome at the door. Food being shared. Conversations that carry from room to room. The reopening of our Westwood home brings the spaces—and the people gathered in them—into the same frame.

Westwood · October 4, 2024 · Original audio

The belief behind
the beautiful spaces

A place to stay should also be
a place to become.

College asks a lot of a young person. We want our students to have people in their corner for the long stretch between the first day of class and the walk across the graduation stage.

Read our story
The becoming   /   Graduation

Five offers.
She chose UCLA.

One of our students earned her associate degree in psychology. Then came acceptances from Riverside, Irvine, Santa Barbara, San Diego, and UCLA. She got to decide where she wanted to go next.

Chef Andra shared the news and gave a shout-out to the stylist who helped her get ready for graduation. We love getting to make a fuss over a day like that.

See the graduation celebration
A study desk in our Westwood home.
A Beautiful Place to Begin.