This forum provides you with resources about home renovation, improvement, makeover and repair topics such as bathroom remodel, cabinet replacement, countertop selection, driveway paving, drought tolerant landscape, faucet, finding contractors, furnace, home design, home performance, hot water heater, interior design, kitchen design, landscape planning, landscape replacement, low flow toilets, non-toxic material, plumbing, rain water collection, retrofit, roof replacement, saving water, solar hot water, solar panel, solar system, and many others. While we focus on issues in California, particularly in the San Francisco Bay Area, San Jose, Oakland, Berkeley, Cupertino, Dublin, Lafayette, Marin, Menlo Park, Mountain View, Redwood City, Santa Clara, San Rafael, Solano, Sunnyvale, most information is applicable in all parts of USA as well as the rest of the world.