Late summer and early fall is drywood termite swarming season in Southern California. If you have found piles of tiny pellets under a dresser, winged insects on a windowsill, or…
Permanent change of station orders come with a report date, a stack of paperwork, and a house full of stuff that all has to be dealt with before the packers…
Recliners are one of the most common pieces of furniture we haul out of Southern California homes, and also one of the most awkward. They are heavy, oddly shaped, and…
Ceiling fans with wobbly blades, yellowed fluorescent shop lights, the brass chandelier from 1988, the flickering garage tube fixtures nobody has touched in years. When Southern California homeowners remodel a…
Almost every Southern California home seems to have one: the giant oak entertainment center built for a 32-inch tube TV, the mirrored wall unit from the ’90s, or the heavy…
Every kitchen cleanout hits the same wall: cabinets full of dishes, a hutch full of wedding china, drawers of mismatched silverware, and a stack of scratched pots nobody has used…
Southern California lives with earthquakes. Most are small, but even a moderate shake can leave a home full of broken glass, toppled bookcases, cracked block walls, and ruined furniture. Once…
A concrete fountain, statue, or birdbath looks like a permanent part of the yard. Then the pump quits, the basin cracks, or you’re redoing the landscaping, and you find out…
