Pregnant Bekah Martinez Tells Nick Viall to ‘Please Get Off’ Her Bed During Hilarious Home Tour

Louetta R. Clark 1 week ago

Nick Viall got a personal tour of Bekah Martinez’s L.A. apartment — and the result was downright hilarious. 

The two-time Bachelorette runner-up, 39, stopped by Martinez’s humble abode to check out how the Bachelor season 22 fan favorite, 25, has set up the home she shares with her boyfriend, Grayston Leonard, along with their one-year-old daughter, Ruth, and soon, their second child. 

The tour is part of Viall’s new video series with bedding company Brooklinen called Reality TV Apartments, where he peeks inside the homes of Bachelor Nation alums. 

Standing outside Martinez’s place, Viall breaks down the series’s premise, describing it as “the show where we take an in-depth look at your favorite reality TV stars and their not-so glamorous lives.”

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Martinez, who he calls by her show nickname “Baby Bekah,” opens

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This robotic voice-activated furniture inspired by Mickey Mouse drops from the ceiling when you ask it to

Louetta R. Clark 2 weeks ago
Solutions to storage problems continue to resonate with the market, from storage in the cloud to, now, storage in the ceilings.
Solutions to storage problems continue to resonate with the market, from storage in the cloud to, now, storage in the ceilings.

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  • A San Francisco startup designs modules that store your bed, closet, desk, and nightstand in the ceiling that can be lowered on your command.

  • The systems are also outfitted with AI that “can learn from your preferences and routine.”

  • Bumblebee Spaces was cofounded in 2017 by Tesla and Apple veteran Sankarshan Murthy.

  • The company has four projects with San Francisco developers, one of which currently has two-bedrooms — that can be turned into three-bedrooms thanks to the startup’s tech — available for around $5,000.

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There have been a bunch of daring propositions to counter San Francisco’s — and other cities’ — housing demand: underground bunk beds are one of the most recent that come to mind.

But Bumblebee

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This Architect Is Promoting Self-Sustaining Architecture Around the Globe

Louetta R. Clark 2 weeks ago

In 1972, architect Michael Reynolds came up with an unorthodox approach to solving what he perceived as a catastrophic ecological crisis. It was a mere two years after the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency, long before conversations about eco-conscious design became fashionable. Still, the newly graduated architect took one look at the sheer volume of garbage the United States was producing and decided to take matters into his own hands—quite literally. The result was the Thumb House, a desert dwelling built out of roughly 70,000 discarded beer and soda cans that were wired and mortared together. “The Thumb House was all over the press, but it wasn’t a story about recycling. It was about a crazy idiot on the mesas of New Mexico building a home out of garbage,” Reynolds says with a laugh. “I was called a disgrace to the architectural community.”

Undeterred, Reynolds continued to tweak his

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Caitlin Wilson Creates a Miniature Version of Her Dallas Home

Louetta R. Clark 3 weeks ago

Into all things tiny and beautiful? House Beautiful gave 11 designers the same Victorian dollhouse and $500 to decorate it any way they wanted. A whole lot of crazy glue, DIY-ed accents, and miniature accessories later, we present Dollhouse Beautiful. Tune in every Tuesday at 12 for a new episode and to see how each designer created their miniature masterpiece.

You’d be forgiven for thinking the interior above is a room from designer Caitlin Wilson’s Dallas home. In fact, it’s from a much smaller project—1/12 the size, to be precise. To create a dollhouse for our Dollhouse Beautiful series, Wilson used her own home—with all its recognizable pale pastel colors—and her own furniture collection as inspiration. “I love blue-and-white, so obviously I had to use it for my dollhouse,” explains the designer of her color choice.

“This dollhouse is modeled after my own home.”

The decision made it easy for

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