After laying out the vague goals of making the house more efficient, comfortable, and pleasant, I needed to start to delve down and figure out what that really entails. What improvements do I want to make and how will they get us closer to the goals I've laid out? How do all the changes work together as a system? There were endless questions and I was feeling overwhelmed.
Read MoreThere are few things more wasteful and useless for a home than a lawn. After researching the myriad of ways to kill grass, we decided to go non-chemical and low-cost: sheet mulching. Cardboard and mulch for the win!
Read MoreWe are in the process of learning how to live in a new home, a new city. My wife wanted to move back to her hometown in Southern California to live near her family. She proposed that we leave the Bay Area for a year or so and live in the house she grew up in. I would finally have a house to fix up, something I've wanted for a while. So I agreed and now, about a year after making that agreement, here we are. We knew from the outset that moving to the LA area would be challenging...
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