Architecture has to respond to cold days and long nights in Northern Europe. As winter drags on for a whole lot of us, we could take some lessons from folks that live in areas like Scandinavia or The Netherlands. A bright and light room is your interior design edition of one of these modest anti-depressant […]

Native to the dry, lonely islands off Southern California, Catalina ironwood is similar to a shaggy, well-worn page out of California history. It is a striking tree with the peely-bark look of an antique relic — perfect for a low-water, natural landscape. But at a much more formal, amazing setting, it’s as out of place […]

If you can’t conserve your historical windows, then it’s time to find energy-efficient replacements. And selecting new windows involves industry knowledge. It’s important to get a grasp of the alphabet soup: U-factor, SHGC, air leakage, VT and LSG. Next, when you know all of the various evaluation systems, you may pick windows based on your […]