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February 28, 2025

How to fireproof homes in style

Recent images from Los Angeles and in 2023 from Lahaina, Hawaii, of homes left untouched and intact while surrounding houses were entirely destroyed by wildfires are dramatic and compelling. How did one home survive in a neighborhood otherwise completely decimated by the flames and ferocious winds of two of...
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The Elevated Spaces of Redmond Aldrich Design
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February 23, 2024

The Elevated Spaces of Redmond Aldrich Design

Every space designed by Redmond Aldrich Design is a multitasker.  “Even a corner can be given jobs,” says founder and creative director Chloe Redmond Warner. “The first step is making a space useful, and it will become alive....
Beyond Spring Cleaning
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February 23, 2024

Beyond Spring Cleaning

Spring is in the air—between droplets of much-needed rain. The freshness and smell of petrichor have many opening their windows and thinking spring cleaning, perhaps even spring redecorating. Why not? The East Bay is rife with options...
What the Succulents Say
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October 24, 2023

What the Succulents Say

Legacy gardens tell vast stories. Features of the landscape describe in hills, valleys, soil, rocks, boulders, wetlands, streams and ponds a location’s geographic history. The trees, plants, grasses, flowers, vegetables, fruits, insects and other biological forms of...
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July 7, 2021

Quarantine Fatigue Gets Grilled

The numbers behind outdoor cooking Eager for a change of pace during the pandemic, many consumers made outdoor cooking their go-to activity, extending the art form beyond traditional grilling, or even the traditional grilling season. Consumers spent more...
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July 7, 2021

Hardware for the Handy: What DIY dreams are made of

Some of us realized during the stay-at-home lockdowns the real reason why we can’t croon any DIY home improvement theme songs or figure out which end is up on a hammer. It’s not because we’re too busy...
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July 7, 2021

Design for Living

An interview with Brook Bradbury of Lincoln Park Design During a phone call to arrange this interview, Lincoln Park Design’s Jennifer Walker and Brook Bradbury are quick to remind that their firm’s name is spelled like the 16th...
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July 7, 2021

Permanence

The East Bay Permanent Real Estate Cooperative East Bay Permanent Real Estate Cooperative Director Noni Session is rarely asked to describe her dream landscape for Oakland and the broader Bay Area. Having demonstrated housing crisis foresight by founding,...
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