Green Living

Oct

Cost vs. Value Report 2016

Posted In: For Sellers, General Real Estate News, Green Living, Home Improvement, Home Maintenance, Investing

The 2016 Cost vs. Value report is out. YIPPEE! Now let me set the stage: each year, right about this time, a little reminder pops up on my computer, notifying me to “Look for Annual Cost vs. Value Report.” Well, last week it popped up! I immediately stopped writing the email I was forming and popped over to Remodeling to [...]

Mar

Plants Eat the Sun + Poop Out Air

Posted In: Berkeley, Community, Creative Reuse Ideas, Green Living, Home Improvement

Sep

Alternative Green Grass at its Finest

Posted In: Creative Reuse Ideas, For Buyers, For Sellers, For the Home, Green Living, Home Improvement

With the drought in full force homeowner’s everywhere are trying to figure out what to do with their grass. Water it and risk being fined or yelled at by your neighbors? Pull it out and plant drought-resistant plants? Let it die? If you like green grass and want to be environmentally conscious then here are some great options for keeping [...]

Jun

Will the Drought Impact the Bay Area’s Real Estate Market?

Posted In: Alameda County, Contra Costa County, For Buyers, For Sellers, General Real Estate News, Green Living, Home Improvement, Home Maintenance

Will the drought in California, which is weighing heavily on all of our minds as the water from the faucet starts to taste a litter funkier every week, have any kind of impact on real estate prices? There are several possible scenarios: The price of water continues to go up, as it becomes a scarcer resource. As the price [...]

Mar

Perch’d is on Pinterest!

Posted In: Alameda County, Architecture, Arts and Entertainment, Community, Contra Costa County, Creative Reuse Ideas, Food and Dining, For Buyers, For Sellers, For the Heck of It, For the Home, Fun for Grown Ups, Fun for Kids, Good Eats, Green Living, Home Improvement, Home Maintenance, Local Market Statistics, Neighborhoods, Photos, Places, Uncategorized

Perch’d is on Pinterest! Check out some of the fun things we like to do in the Bay Area as well as find out about some of the cool things about your neighborhood! We are busy pinning great things for you to enjoy! Let us know what your favorite pin is!

Oct

How to get rid of fruit flies in the home

Posted In: For the Home, Green Living, Home Maintenance

Hard to complain about the beautiful weather we’re experiencing right now– Indian summer in the East Bay is such a lovely thing!– but sometimes there comes a little uninvited visitor every so often. That’s right. We’re talking fruit flies. The tiny plague. Fruit flies thrive in damp places so you might find them congregating near your trash disposal, or anywhere [...]

Aug

El Cerrito Recycling Center

Posted In: Community, El Cerrito, Green Living, Home Improvement

Ok, I know I posted about this before, but I just went again and I have to give a shout-out to how COOL the El Cerrito Recycling Center is. RECYCLE IT: Bricks, exercise equipment, batteries, oil, medicine, e-waste, aluminum windows…and on and on and on… DONATE IT: Goodwill truck hangs out just outside of the gates EXCHANGE IT: There is [...]

Jul

Spotted: Solar Trash Compactors in Albany

Posted In: Albany, For the Heck of It, Green Living

After having a nice dinner at Fonda, I wandered across the street and spotted the strangest looking trash cans: While it might not be able to leap tall buildings in a single bound, it is able to compact gallons of trash with a single gulp. The Big Belly Solar Trash Compactor is an on-site solar-powered trash compactor that is designed [...]

Apr

Vetrazzo Recycled Glass

Posted In: Green Living, Home Improvement

Looking to redo your kitchen? Consider using Vetrazzo Recycled Glass. I haven’t used their product, and I don’t actually know anyone who has, but this sure looks cool. This was taken directly from their website: www.vetrazzo.com Exquisitely repurposed glass With Vetrazzo Surfaces you can express both your styles and your respect for the earth without compromise. Vetrazzo is 85% glass, [...]

Apr

Freecycle

Posted In: Community, For Buyers, For Sellers, Green Living

Ok, so last week I posted some great resources for recycling your unwanted items. What I completeley forgot to mention was my FAVORITE reuse website, www.freecycle.org. You can list items that you want to get rid of for free, as well as items that you are looking for. Example: I bought some shampoo and conditioner that I didn’t really like, [...]