How we clean Napa
People who only know the valley from a tasting-room weekend are surprised by the city itself. Napa has neighborhoods with sidewalks, corner markets and school-run traffic, and the housing shows it: 1890s Queen Annes and 1920s Craftsman bungalows on the grid below Fuller Park, then a wide belt of 1950s and 1960s tract houses filling the flats, then hillside builds climbing into Browns Valley and Alta Heights.
That range changes what a visit looks like. An Old Town Victorian has original fir floors, tall painted baseboards and a staircase that eats twenty minutes on its own. A ranch house near Alston Park is one level, mostly carpet, and moves quickly. Downtown condos above the river fall somewhere between, being small, hard-floored and usually in need of balcony glass, because the light off the water shows everything.
The housing stock in Napa
Three broad eras sit inside the city limits. The oldest are wood-framed, raised on short crawlspaces, with narrow hallways and floors that have been refinished at least once. The post-war flats are slab-on-grade, single-story, 1,200 to 1,700 square feet, carpet through the bedrooms and sheet vinyl or tile elsewhere. Hillside houses off Browns Valley Road and up Alta Heights run larger and add stairs, hardwood and more window glass. Summers here regularly clear a hundred degrees, so dust moves indoors whenever windows are open.