House Milk

We begin a new—and very different—chapter of House Milk in Southern California.

New adventures await as we take House Milk to the left coast.

HVAC. The mere mention of that word makes me shudder. We have three - count them! - THREE heating and cooling systems in our house. Talk about crazytown; it's HVAC madness over here. There is one unit for the bedrooms, one unit for the living space, and one unit for the family room (as I mentioned I think it was converted from a garage by the first owners). We've had our share of fun times with these units... like the time when the air conditioner broke in the dead of Summer while I was six months pregnant. Or the time when the heater broke the night we brought our newborn daughter home from the hospital. Ah, the memories. Well, another thing about the HVAC system that I'd like to erase from my memory are the hideous floor grilles throughout the house.

A few months ago, our lamp posts looked like this... and as you can see, not so nice. In fact, I called them "The Saddest Lamp Posts on the Block". We didn't have much budget to do anything fancy, but we knew we couldn't continue looking at those sad, half-falling apart brick structures any longer.

We just got an Urbio modular wall storage unit called the Big Happy Family. Mr. Design Milk and I installed it a few weeks ago in our kitchen. It's so easy to install! Here's how it's done.

I like to think I'm a pretty organized person. I love spreadsheets. I alphabetize things. I clean up while the party is still going on. But,