If you want your home to be à la mode, here are some great window treatment trends and products that you should install for 2016.  If you have found yourself on this blog post, it likely means you care about the aesthetic of your home or office. Windows are responsible … Continue reading →

Let us take you down because we’re going to . . . make delicious strawberry lemonade popsicles.  The heat of the summer calls for us to use our complex human brains in order to find a solution in which we cool ourselves down. Through the use of water, fruits, and … Continue reading →

It almost always seems to be a race against the clock when you purchase strawberries, but there is a way you can keep your strawberries from molding.  You’ve just returned from a long day at work and all you want to do when you get home is open your container of … Continue reading →

Recycling is an incredibly important part of our daily lives that helps decrease carbon emissions and keeps the landfills from overflowing.  The average person produces an average of 4.5 pounds of waste every single day. Multiply that by 320 million (the population of the U.S.) and that gives us 1.4 billion … Continue reading →

The beach should be a place for fun and relaxation, so knowing what you’re going to do before you get there is important.  Get ready for fun in the sun, the sand, and in the water! Treading and body surfing through the waves can be quite exhausting, so thinking that you … Continue reading →

Function and structure should always go in hand, is your workplace one that breeds productivity?  Natural selection has a funny way of always designing with function in mind. A plant needs sunlight? Make leaves with more surface area! Humans attempt to recreate this natural process: sometimes we fail, but other times … Continue reading →

Reusing and recycling old buildings offers a big opportunity to reshape how we think about raw materials needed for construction.  We recycle paper to cut down fewer trees, we recycle glass to not expend the energy to make more, and we recycle much more because we realize that resources are finite. Why not … Continue reading →

When you want to give your commercial property a facelift, renovating or rebuilding are your two main options. Your Pleasanton contractor can give you some much-needed information! When deciding whether to renovate or rebuild a commercial property, there are a variety of things that you need to consider. You know … Continue reading →

Walking Tour of the HIVE, Oakland Developed by Signature Development Group and built by Proforma construction, the HIVE encompasses 2 phases as a repurpose project in Downtown Oakland including a seismic retrofit/historical renovation of over 70,000 SF that included environmental concerns on site as well. Phase 1 was the conversion … Continue reading →

Apple cider vinegar’s unique properties make it a very useful liquid for our everyday lives. While times have certainly changed, apple cider vinegar is still versatile and well-used in many homes around the U.S. and around the world. There are many ways to integrate apple cider vinegar into your everyday … Continue reading →