NAPA VALLEY WINTER MUSTARDS

My new Keen shoes from www.Zappo.com, just saw the Zappo team on Oprah. Good company, good ethics in customer service, great shoes for ones closet, hopefully a closet designed by Malka!

These new shoes I wear in the dirt on my walks and on job sites that are under construction with nails and wood under foot.

My shoes here as I am walking through the trenches of Napa Valley vineyards of winter's mustard blooms.

MY CLOSETS IN THE BERKELEY HILLS

Here are several photos of unique homes in the Claremont area of Berkeley California. This is an area of homes that I have some of my most complicated and challenging jobs to design. The older homes do not generally have simple boxes of rooms or closets to design custom home offices or custom closets. The room's walls are often of plaster and are very small. But all are still always quite beautiful because they are unique.

ROCK ART GARDEN IN NAPA VALLEY

Perfection of stone in awesome order, an art form of nature. This is the Napa Valley Rock Garden.

SEX AND THE CITY CLOSET

Glamorous Hollywood Style Custom Designed, Custom Painted Walk In Closet to store and display over 300 pairs of shoes and a multitude of beautiful clothes. A woman's dream come true. It took three years to design and redesign this ever evolving closet due to the client's and architect's changes to this room of the house in the process of building it. The Wardrobe Closet project was collaborated with the client's creative interior designer; Trudy Negherbon of Trudy Negherbon Designs, Contra Costa County, California. Trudy Negherbon created a magnificent designed home and was a pleasure to work with.

Note the three mirrors in the second photo. It is a three way mirror which opens out so one may see themselves from all sides and behind these doors is a wardrobe lined with cedar. An excellent protection for woolen clothing of course. There are other closet cabinets for other storage. But on the most part the client wished to see her clothing in clear view in order to put together her wardrobe ensembles for the day or for a trip.
Hollywood Closet - Glamour Closet

CITY OF PLEASANTON - BUILDING EXPRESSION

I came upon this interesting building while driving through a part of Pleasanton, California near their airport. I was awestruck by it's uniqueness of bold colors and beautiful art work. Some one was wonderfully creative...