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My sincere apologies. It’s been much too long since my blog appeared in those inboxes of yours, but there is a reason you haven’t heard from us. We have worked hard to complete the hardscape [...]

Before we begin, I want to thank you all for your lovely comments on my blog last May. I was unable to reply personally as I had hand surgery after the blog posted but have now fully recovered. ...

I’ll never forget entering a neglected cream-colored cottage with an aging red tile roof speckled with gray-green algae on a secluded island in the San Francisco Bay. I felt like Alice in [...]

Happy New Year! Welcome to our first blog post of 2024, with apologies for our absence these past few months. Here at our Golden Gate jobsite, we’ve had weekly challenges with rainy, stormy, icky [...]

I’m sorry the Golden Gate blog and I have been missing in action. After years of suffering the worst drought in a millennium, California was declared a national disaster area in March of this [...]

The first time I discovered black was when I became terrified of blue, yellow, green, pink, red and orange. That may sound crazy to some of you who know me. But I had finally met my match when two ...

Every winter, the Applewhite elves appear at our client’s homes throughout the Bay Area to deck their halls with holiday cheer. Glowing candles for lighting happy faces, crackling fires for [...]

We’re headed to the Valley of the Moon for Thanksgiving weekend to take a much-needed break from the historic, although occasionally grueling, resurrection of our beloved Golden Gate.

When we made the decision to move from our home in Tiburon, we knew where we wanted to go - the beautiful Santa Ynez Valley, about 45 minutes north of Santa Barbara on California’s Central Coast. [...]

To take your mind off the exceedingly gnarly news of the day, let’s celebrate the beginning of summer with images of a beat-up 1950s beach house with shabby bohemian style rejiggered into a [...]