This forum provides you with resources about home renovation, improvement, makeover and repair topics such as bathroom design, bathroom remodel, construction, countertop selection, drainage, driveway paving, drought tolerant landscape, drought tolerant plants, finding contractors, home design, home insulation, home performance, interior design, landscape planning, landscape replacement, low flow toilets, plumbing, rain water collection, remodel planning, retrofit, roof replacement, saving water, solar hot water, water conservation, window replacement, and many others. While we focus on issues in California, particularly in the San Francisco Bay Area, San Jose, Oakland, Berkeley, Campbell, Contra Costa, Hillsdale, Los Gatos, Mountain View, Palo Alto, Sacramento, San Ramon, San Rafael, Sonoma, Walnut Creek, most information is applicable in all parts of USA as well as the rest of the world.