Summer Colors and Trends for your 2017 Remodel

As summer enters full swing, it is time to get going on those home décor projects that have been put off all winter. Longer evening light, lessening of school- and work-driven agendas, and a feeling o...
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Ask Valet: How do you make overnight guests feel welcome in your home?

This is part of a series of "Ask Valet" blogs featuring tips for your home from the design team at Valet Custom Cabinets & Closets. We asked a few designers at Valet Custom Cabinets & Closets ...
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East Bay Residents Use Custom Garage Cabinets to Store Seasonal Tahoe Ski Gear

One of the best things about living in the East Bay is the relative ease of traveling to Tahoe for skiing on the weekends. Yes, you have to put on chains, deal with traffic slowdowns, and find your ow...
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Organizing Your Luxury Custom Closet With The KonMari Method

The KonMari method of organization has become wildly popular around the nation this year—especially in San Francisco, where Marie Kondo gave live seminars and trained her first consulting employees. E...
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Make a Big City Statement in the Suburbs With Your Lafayette Garage Remodel

I’m just going to come right out and say it: I love Oakland. Whenever I visit SF’s unique (and somewhat cooler) older brother, it inspires me to use more color in my everyday life. To be more loud wit...
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Searching in Vain for Family-Friendly Housing in San Francisco? Remodel Your Existing Bedrooms Instead

There are few pastimes as exciting as choosing a new home for your growing family. Walking through empty rooms full of potential, imagining a Star Wars nursery, planning for all the little and big kid...
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Buying a Murphy Bed From A Showroom: 3 Reasons Why In-Person Shopping Is Best

When some people picture a wall bed, comedic scenes from silent movies come to mind. Charlie Chaplin, the Three Stooges, and even James Bond have used these beds as comic props at one point or another...
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Celebrate Pleasanton’s Open Heart Kitchen By Donating Goods From a Newly Remodeled Pantry

Pleasantonians are proud of their picturesque, quiet city, and rightfully so. With First Wednesdays, the best fairgrounds in the Tri-Valley, and a charming downtown—plus free parking throughout the ci...
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Growing Families in Los Gatos Use Murphy Beds to Create Transitional Nursery Rooms

If you’re raising a family anywhere in the Bay Area, you can’t get a more picture-perfect neighborhood than Los Gatos. Old-growth trees flanking unique homes and the stunning Los Gatos Creek Trail mak...
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Cabinetry Finishes Inspired By the Historic Style Of Tri-Valley Wine Country

Tri-Valley residents understand what many tourists seem to miss: this is some of the best wine country in Northern California. Sonoma and Napa have had their day, and slowly we’re starting to acknowle...
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Saving in the South Bay House Market: Upgrade Your Closet Instead of Buying New

South Bay is, undeniably, tech city. Potential employees for the world’s biggest tech giants flock to Silicon Valley every single year—which is great for venture capital, but not so great for house pr...
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Make Your Own Custom LaFayette Theatre at Home (Though It Won't Be as Historic as the Park)

I’ll never forget rushing to the Park Theater in LaFayette to see “Cinema Paradiso” on its last weekend performance. The Streamline Moderne mainstay of downtown LaFayette was one of my favorite single...
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