Keep Your Home Safe from Wildfires with Tips from Giffin & Crane
Giffin & Crane recommends maintaining defensible space around your home and outbuildings to aid firefighters.
Keith Hamm
Recent Stories
UC Santa Barbara English Professor Cherríe Moraga’s Seminal Lesbian and Chicana Text Is Expanded and Re-released
As a tribute to its 40th anniversary, Haymarket Books has released an expanded edition of “Loving in the War Years.”
Worldly Influence: Custom Homebuilding with Cultural Flair
Combining a Santa Barbar aesthetic with an outside style.
Commercial Success: Ojai Valley Inn Makeover
Led by Giffin & Crane, this three-month project took place during winter of 2009, with strategic tenting to protect new
An Eye for Design
A Q&A with photographer Erin Feinblatt.
The Detail of Dining
Dining areas are gathering spaces for family and friends.
Teaching Juneteenth: A History Lesson in Slavery and Freedom
“Students should learn about the meaning and history of this holiday and all that it represents,” says Daina Ramey Berry, UC Santa Barbara’s Michael Douglas Dean of Humanities and Fine Arts and an expert on slavery and Black history.
Building Better Bathrooms
A collection of custom remodels by Giffin & Crane.
Hidden Backyard Gems
With a big winter in the rearview mirror, Santa Barbara blue skies are taking advantage of longer spring days.
The Giffin & Crane Questionnaire: Barbara Lowenthal, Interior Designer
Santa Barbara’s world-class architecture inspired her taste for design.