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It’s a question interior designers get asked all the time. How do you create zones in an open floor plan? For homeowners without walls, this can be a real problem. How do you keep your home from feeling like one single room? By learning a few design tricks, you can completely mitigate this issue. Instead of an expansive, flat room, you can tra...

Kitchenware has gotten to a point where it’s almost overwhelming to walk down the kitchen aisle in a store or – heaven forbid – venture into a specialty cooking shop.There are gadgets aplenty, single-purpose miracle tools, and frying pans in every conceivable shape and size. Even for a seasoned chef, it’s enough to make you want to run away. Everyw...

On the eastern side of Contra Costa County, a housing boom is going on with more than 1,000 single-family homes recently starting construction in Oakley and Bethel Island. Those locations, within 60 miles east of San Francisco, offer buyers a chance to buy homes at prices well-below the median in other Bay Area cities. Still, these pr...