The Tree House Cont.
Artisan produced, organic, and often local, they also stock world goods that employ women in South America and locations beyond.
A Hearth is a Home
Our love of fireplaces, hearths and mantles is deep and ancient. If we have fire we can keep warm, we can make bread, we can care for our loved ones. I rarely find a home buyer that doesn't require a hearth in the living room. "Oh, I don't plan on burning wood in it, I just want it!"
Hearth and Heart both derive meaning from the Old English root hoerte, and we just don't want to move our families into a home without a heart.
So even though wood burning fireplaces are not green at all, and they are put greenhouse gasses into our air, we can't seem to live without them. Actually, I feel the same way, but love the look of lit candles at a range of heights to offer up the glow of a fire without the same carbon level. For best indoor air quality, choose unscented beeswax candles.
Pristine Piedmont Mid-Century Modern
This blank canvas offers Piedmont Schools and includes a lovely sandstone, brick fireplace and impeccable original baths. Large rooms and open, family, friendly floor plan, typical of mid-century homes.
Mid-Century Architecture has enjoyed a huge resurgence, particularly with the 30-40 something crowd, but the clean, spare, unfussy, lines when furnished interestingly, appeal to anyone who looks to their home to take them away. Serene open spaces can be created with little effort.
Berkeley's Own
The Gardener on 4th Street in Berkeley installed a new potting shed/studio.
It's purpose: arranging cut flowers, planting succulent arrangements with help from the expert staff and just getting your hands dirty. It's the Gardener way of "Social Networking" with their clients. What fun!
The Gardener has a location in the San Francisco Ferry Building and also a wonderful store in Healdsberg. You can find them on the web at www.thegardener.com
Up you go!
Up the garden path to the
weather beaten wood paneled cottage.
Original Craftsman hand painted beams, in the three room home. Out of time, one could almost picture Virginia Woolfe on a visit to Berkeley, enjoying this rustic cottage.
Then back into time and down the garden path you go.
As a certified Green Building Professional, I strive to implement green practices in my listings and in my client's homes. "Going Green is a Practice, Not a Perfect!" I encourage you to begin.
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