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Where the rubber meets the road

Posted in Before & After, Designing, tagged , , , , on December 5, 2011 | 1 Comment »

Lighting rules in California are pretty draconian. In shorthand, they suck. These are the lights we had to install in the kitchen to meet building codes and get our permits signed off. They are hideous, and we knew that when we bought them. But there are very few pendant lights that meet the code requirement [...]

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Holiday decor, northern California style

Posted in Designing, Gardening, tagged , , , , on November 19, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

Here in northern California, fall looks different than it does in the storybooks. We don’t have snow. We don’t have holly. We don’t have pine trees. What we DO have is redwood trees – and, courtesy of the tree trimming we had done recently, lots and lots of redwood branches. We also have flowers. Yes, [...]

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A very elegant fire pit: another story in pictures

Posted in Before & After, Building, Designing, Gardening, tagged , , , on October 2, 2011 | 1 Comment »

We saw some raised beds in Sunset made out of corrugated and thought they were very stylish. And, we thought corrugated might be a good choice for an idiot proof fire pit. Turns out, we were right!  

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Damn I’m tired, or, Garden design phase 3

Posted in Designing, Gardening, tagged , , , on September 11, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

The phrase “garden design” sounds so creative, so relaxing, so – cool, like a tall glass of iced tea or lemonade. Don’t believe it. Garden design may start with a piece of paper and a cold drink, but – at least for me – it always ends up with carrying heavy pieces of lumber around [...]

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Play it again Sam, or, Garden Design Phase 1

Posted in Designing, Gardening, tagged , , , , , on September 4, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

I’ve spent hours looking over the deck railing down on the lunar landscape below and trying to figure out what to do with it.   Our original idea was a bocce court, but even though the yard looks really, really big from up above, it turns out bocce courts are even bigger (for the record, [...]

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