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Award-winning architectural conservator, designer and philanthropist, Xorin Balbes is founder and co-owner of the interior and architectural design firm Temple Home. Balbes is well known for his remarkable restorations in the Los Angeles area, from Lloyd Wright’s 1927 Sowden House to Talmadge Villa, silent screen star Norma Talmadge’s 17th-century Italianate mansion in Los Feliz.

His successes encouraged him to develop his own brand of home design, SoulSpace, which was born of his desire to create beauty, peace and harmony in the home and throughout the world. His book SoulSpace - Inspiring Personal Transformation Through Conscious Design will be released in 2011. He is also in development on a reality television series about his unconventional work with clients.

Balbes co-founded the non-profit Global Vision for Peace and has worked along with celebrities such as Drew Barrymore, Leonardo DiCaprio and Sharon Stone promoting world peace and HIV/AIDS awareness of orphaned African children.

For more info visit www.templehome.net
 
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Blog Entries by Xorin Balbes

A Place to Live: The Story of Triangle Square

Posted June 13, 2011 | 03:44 PM (EST)

Director Carolyn Coal and producers Cynthia Childs, Noam Dromi and Susan Munro followed the journey of seven older adults as they attempted to secure a home in Triangle Square, the nation's first affordable housing facility for LGBT seniors. The resulting documentary, A Place to Live: The...

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Ask Xorin: Studio Strategies

Posted March 28, 2011 | 05:03 PM (EST)

"Ask Xorin" is a weekly home and self improvement column created by award-winning architectural conservator, designer and philanthropist Xorin Balbes and best selling author Sandra Bark. For more info visit the official TempleHome website.

Dear Xorin,

I am a green marketing consultant, and when...

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Ask Xorin: Backyard Bliss

Posted February 22, 2011 | 12:56 PM (EST)

"Ask Xorin" is a weekly home and self improvement column created by award-winning architectural conservator, designer and philanthropist Xorin Balbes and best selling author Sandra Bark. For more info visit the official TempleHome website.

Dear Xorin,

In a busy city, I consider myself lucky...

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At Home With Love

Posted February 15, 2011 | 05:55 PM (EST)

Happy post-Valentine's Day to all my fellow SoulSpacers.

For those of you who are new to my column, last month I wrote about the 8-step home/self-improvement process I developed for the clients of my architecture and design firm TempleHome.

I explained it in this way --

The...
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Ask Xorin: 1+1 = 3

Posted February 11, 2011 | 11:34 AM (EST)

"Ask Xorin" is a weekly home and self improvement column created by award-winning architectural conservator, designer and philanthropist Xorin Balbes and best selling author Sandra Bark. For more info visit the official TempleHome website.

Dear Xorin,

My husband and I met in business school,...

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Ask Xorin: Back to the Present

Posted February 3, 2011 | 01:15 AM (EST)

Ask Xorin is a weekly home and self improvement column created by award-winning architectural conservator, designer and philanthropist Xorin Balbes and best selling author Sandra Bark. For more info visit the official TempleHome website.

Dear Xorin,

I'm writing in for my mom, who would...

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Ask Xorin: Loft Life in Brooklyn

Posted January 25, 2011 | 05:35 PM (EST)

Ask Xorin is a weekly home and self improvement column created by award-winning architectural conservator, designer and philanthropist Xorin Balbes and best selling author Sandra Bark. For more info visit the official TempleHome website

Dear Xorin,

My boyfriend and I just closed on a new loft....

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Open House/Sowden House

Posted January 25, 2011 | 12:52 PM (EST)

As some of you may know, I'm the owner of Sowden House, a home designed by Lloyd Wright, son of renowned architect Frank Lloyd Wright.

Last month I took the TV show Open House LA on a tour of the property to share a little...

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Roots and Flowers

Posted January 19, 2011 | 12:49 PM (EST)

I was at a dinner at one of my favorite restaurants when the young woman seated to my right asked me a question. This question went way beyond the usual "where are you from" or "what do you do." What she wanted to know was what she should do.

...
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