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The state of Uptown real estate

Posted: March 30th, 2012 | Communities, Homes |

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

House Calls: Like father, not quite like son

Posted: March 30th, 2012 | Columnists, Feature, Homes, People Profiles |

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

Maximizing Living Spaces

Posted: March 2nd, 2012 | Feature, Homes |

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.

You’ve got to love it

Posted: February 17th, 2012 | Homes, Lifestyle |

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.”

House Calls: Tile is (supposed to be) forever

Posted: February 3rd, 2012 | Columnists, Homes, Infrastructure | 1 Comment

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

Ten Top Tips for Old House Owners

Posted: November 11th, 2011 | Homes |

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.