Searching on the patent (if I read the numbers correctly as 8454204) http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=8454204&OS=8454204&RS=8454204 The http://www.cordelia.com/ website is pretty minimal. But wouldn't it be easier to just replace the fixture with something like this: https://www.homedepot.com/p/Halo-HLB-4-in-White-Round-Integrated-LED-Recessed-Light-Direct-Mount-Kit-with-Selectable-CCT-2700K-5000K-No-Can-Needed-HLB4069FS1EMWR/306050711

Not gonna happen. Too heavy. Chips like crazy. Just like the porcelain large format counters do. Laminate remains the gold standard for durability for slab door cabinets everywhere.

I think all ag products grown in California are irrigated so while water supplies from runoff and the need for aquifer recharging for ground water levels are affected by a particular year's snow and rainfall, product production shouldn't be as long as there's available water deliveries to the growing sites. Irrigated orchards may very well have alternating good and bad years if that's the normal cycle of the tree type, I wouldn't know. Orchards being long term investments, I suspect they get priority for water so that the trees don't die. Most row crops are annuals and don't need to be planted in any particular year if water supplies for the grower or field are limited. If you've had the otherwise monotonous experience of driving along Hwy 5, you've probably seen the signs visible at the south end of the San Joaquin Valley, near Grapevine - Food Grows Where Water Flows. On your comment, you might be amused to learn that using "the" in front of a highway number is much more common in SoCal than in NorCal, where the number can be used without a "the". I'm a SoCal native but moved north before the "the" came into vogue. I know LA freeways by name, not by numbers. It's easier for me, especially with instances of freeways with segments with different numbers. Or, the reverse, sections of the same Hwy number that are used for freeways of different names. Is "The 5" the San Diego Fwy, the Santa Ana Fwy, or the Golden State Fwy in SoCal? Of course you know the answer - it's all three! But not all of the San Diego Fwy is The 5, because part of it is The 405.

I don't know if I am more cranky than usual but I don't think if I bought a warehouse I would do what was done to that one, either. With the exception of some brick showing, it looks like surburban new construction with soffits and tray ceilings and such. I am not paying attention to the contents, some of which are interesting, just what they did to the building itself. Really, they were just looking for a certain amount of square footage of raw space in a certain location and it happened to be a warehouse. This whole thing could have been inserted in the first house in the thread as well. I guess part of this is that I knew people who at one time lived in lofts and warehouses and you could tell what they were. This I don't think you can. And, coincidentally we are demo'ing our current kitchen and since we have to Use it and the house is so small, and the cabinet guy is six months out After final shop drawings, we put a number of big heavy things on casters and dollies and we move them around (big storage cabinets, an oven), and that made me think that if I ever did live in a loft, everything except the bathrooms would have everything on wheels and you could just move it around.