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The courtship between homeowner and tradesman sometimes requires a matchmaker By Michael Good In the spring a young woman’s fancy turns to thoughts of… kitchen remodeling. No, wait, I didn’t get that quite right. In the spring a young man’s fancy turns to thoughts of kitchen remodeling—and the young women
By Monica Garske | SDUN Reporter With District Three Councilmember Todd Gloria’s Urban Agriculture Initiative now in effect, allowing Uptown residents to raise certain farm animals in their backyards, some residents are concerned over the potential increase in noise. The new initiative allows single-family homes to keep and maintain beehives,
By Ashley Mackin | SDUN Editor For 70 years, the Big Sister League of San Diego has worked diligently to improve the lives of women in the community. District 5 Councilmember Marti Emerald said she knows first-hand the deeds of the organization asset, noting that her daughter, who was diagnosed
In December 2011, San Diego Uptown News asked several local realtors about their projections for the New Year. Three months later, many of them agree the market continues to climb. Several have weighed in on who can benefit from this increase, and the state of Uptown Real Estate. Tugg Snowbarger
Landscape designer Raymond Shaw fell some distance from the Family Tree By Michael Good Raymond Shaw came to his profession—he’s been a landscape designer for the last decade—the usual way: by complete accident. It’s only in retrospect that everything seems inevitable, that graphic artist to junior high school teacher to
In exploring San Diego’s oldest neighborhoods, one is treated to a range of architectural periods and styles. There are iconic Victorian mansions, wonderfully preserved Craftsmen bungalows, Spanish Colonial charmers, and California Art Deco dwellings, to name a few of the styles represented throughout Mission Hills, Hillcrest, Banker’s Hill, North Park, South Park, University Heights, Normal Heights and Kensington.
Lisa Maywood is a little crazy about glass. She’s been obsessed with it since high school, although there were a few years there when she was trying to pretend she wasn’t.
“I started when I was 15 years old,” she says. “It was an elective at my local high school in the Pasadena area… I just fell in love with it.”
If anything was made to last it’s tile. Wood rots. Concrete crumbles. Iron rusts. Glass breaks. In fact, just about everything made by man eventually turns to dust–everything except for good old-fashioned, high-fired clay. Tough, resilient, impervious to all insults but the hammer blow; tile abides. While the other house parts quake in fear, tile laughs in the face of sunlight, moisture, bugs, earth, wind, fire and volcanoes. Long after we’re gone, after the Huns, Vandals and Visigoths of the future have relegated the United States to the history books, our fireplace tile will live on
It’s called ratiocination, and it’s a familiar mental process for anyone who’s ever stared at some mysterious piece of his or her old house and thought, “If I just keep looking at this long enough, it will all make sense.”
A contractor friend of mine dropped by a while back as I was faux-graining my front door. I had the door up on sawhorses in the dining room. The dining room table and chairs were in the spare bedroom. The contents of the spare bedroom were out in the granny flat. The contents of the granny flat were in the garage. My truck was parked on the street. And for reasons I’ve chosen to forget, my four-hundred-pound antique gas stove was sitting in the dining room bow window. You get the picture.