Laurie Pike at Los Angeles magazine let the website Apartment Therapy do a tour of her Koreatown apartment. The experience was fine, she blogs at Chic Leak, but the reaction of the lookie-loos who commented on the photo spread has been humbling. "I don’t regret having done it, of course—I’m too tickled at the results—but I got a laugh out of readers’ comments," she writes. "Well, it serves me right for throwing open the door."

Photo by Gregory Han