Bath Shower Ha Na

CALIFORNIA — California is dotted with cottages and mansions, homes built beach -side or perched on a cliff. The mountain getaway shown above is in Idyllwild. You can drop $80 million on a gleaming home in Beverly Hills that is grander than hotels that most of us have stayed in, or your perfect home could be a suburban abode with party lights strung over the backyard patio. This week's California wow houses cater to varied tastes. Are you looking for a home with a swim-up bar? One's available in Pleasanton. How about a stage to perform karaoke, or to practice your TED Talk? Check out the home in Berkeley. If your dream home is only complete with a backyard art studio , look at the home in La Mesa. Beach houses are featured in Aptos, La Jolla and Palos Verdes ($40 million!). And Patch editors had a thing about staircases this week. We didn't plan it, but scroll through the photos below to unleash your inner Scarlett O'Hara. Exquisite Equestrian Estate With Koi Pond ...

The flow of water from shower heads and bathroom faucets in California will be sharply reduced under strict new limits approved Wednesday by the state Energy Commission . Current rules, established in 1994 at the federal level, allow a maximum flow of 2.5 gallons per minute from a shower head. Effective next July, the limit will fall to 2.0 gallons per minute and will be reduced again in July 2018, to 1.8 gallons, giving California the toughest standard of any U.S. state. Interested in the stories shaping California ? Sign up for the free Essential California newsletter >> After a full turnover of shower head and faucet stocks by 2029, the regulations are expected to save 38 billion gallons of water, 20. 2 billion cubic feet of natural gas and 1,322 gigawatt hours of electricity each year, according to the commission. Also effective next July, residential bathroom faucets will have a maximum flow rate of 1.2 gallons per minute, down from 2.2 gallons per minute. The standa...