This Berkeley kitchen cabinet job was straightforward, just in the wrong direction. A mockup that left out a key detail, a contractor who wasn’t on site, and what seemed like common sense all pointed us the same way. The first glitch was the floor. The general contractor had installed an engineered wood floor wall to

This redwood deck sits on the roof of a multi-unit building in Pacific Heights, and the job was for a friend. It was built during the lockdown as a play area for what was then a toddler. It’s L-shaped with a view-through glass railing, and the view is beautiful: across the north end of the

This tile floor in Rossmoor, Walnut Creek, was a straightforward job, and a good example of how a tile floor should be built from the subfloor up. It started with demolition. Under the old floor were two layers of linoleum and a layer of particle board. Particle board is a poor base for tile: it