Making a move from the Northeast to Southern California can be overwhelming, especially with four children. This family took it slow, renting for a while, before committing to a two-story, 3,840-square-foot home with five bedrooms and 3½ bathrooms in Coronado. It had the perfect location, close to the Village and the beach. The house, however, looked every inch its 40-plus years and was short a child’s bedroom upstairs. The fifth bedroom, downstairs, was fine as a playroom for their youngest, but the parents wanted all the kids — two girls and two boys, who ranged in age from 5 to 14 — to have bedrooms on the same level as theirs. The solution was a top-to-bottom renovation that would lighten up the home and rework the floor plan to accommodate the whole family. My new story for the March issue of the San Diego Union-Tribune’s Hot Property Estates reveals the process and results of this renovation.