Beautiful work - the rooms are very different, but seem to work together quite well.

Lovely, but please move those hanging book sculptures, I'm scared they'll fall on the baby!

It's gorgeous! I really like the balance of white and black and color. I can't believe those cats are stenciled onto the wall, that must have taken forever! I do hope the book mobile suspended over the bassinet uses some very strong string though...especially in earthquake country!

I love the bathroom and I hope you don't gut it! And great job on the cat stencils!

Cool space. Looks curated but effortless at the same time.

love this place! Very airy but stylish at the same time. That mobile is awesome!!

Yes! I love craigslist. Thanks for sharing. I'm sure it took a while to put this together.

I like the artwork above the shelving in the living room - that was a DIY project?

one of my favorite house tours! especially love the book mobile and the cat stenciled wall.... source for stencil please?

I actually like the bathroom! Maybe it's one of those "you have to be there" kind of things. To me, it's less "faux Tuscan" which was what the description made me think, and more deco.

do not touch that bathroom for gods sake.

What a lovely space - very inviting! And, I loove your bathroom (don't change a thing)! I love the mobile idea (may try that myself), but I too am afraid it may fall on your little one! Maybe move it over just a little?!

I'd have to agree with the others - love the bathroom. I especially like the fact you were able to work with what you had and it came out gorgeous. And about the artwork by the umbrella stand, love, love, love it!

I think their place is pretty perfect. It's so full of personality and yet so well-edited. I have been stuck in a rut with ideas for my own place and I'm definitely going to be sourcing from this post!

While I'm not a fan of the yellow tile in the bathroom the floor is amazing! If you do anything in there keep the floor and just change the yellow tiles. The rest of the house is pretty nice, I like a lot of the elements and feel of the spaces.

I've said this a record amount of times in the past 7 days... if you like something that's trendy don't be bothered if it's no longer in style (wood and edison bulbs). Most of the people who will comment about something being passe say it is because they're over exposed to design elements by reading design blogs like AT. In reality probably 95-99% of the population has no idea that it's been done a million times and they're seeing it for the first time in your house.

The big scribble picture is interesteing...It's something people could easily DIY. Get a giant black frame from ikea, some paper, a black fine tipped pen or a pencil, scribble, add a few white stripes over top the scribbles (maybe use washi tape instead of white for a splash of colour) and add to frame. This could probably be done in 30mins or less.

Lovely, but I wouldn't call this a post about making room for three just because they tucked a bassinet in the corner...

I love the curved architecture in this space - the curved door in the dining room, the curved intercom niche, the archways. Lovely. And, while the bathroom isn't my taste, you have made it look beautiful and I think you should keep it intact.

LOVE the bathroom!

That's a nice-sized apartment. The three of you will be fine there for a long time. My daughter and I live in a much smaller 1-bedroom and it works great because I gave her the bedroom and turned the living room into MY bedroom. Fortunately we have a big enough kitchen/dining nook that we can entertain there when people come over. Same with your dining room!

By the way...hello, neighbors! I live in the area as well.

love this tour!

i'd also like a source for the stencil, and any info on the DIY for the book mobile.

i love airy rooms - and your whole house feels that way. i agree with the person who said it was a great use of white, black, and color.

also, do you remember when that caged globe is from?

your place is lovely! it looks like your baby will have a beautiful, happy home.

and what i love most is how much of this is budget-friendly!

Beautiful mobile... but keep in mind they exist to attract baby's attention--teach them how to focus. Maybe high contrast sheets of paper? Black, red...? The white isn't going to do anything for that baby but I love the idea!

I love the whole apartment, including--and maybe even especially--the bathroom.

WOW. such a fantastic tour. I would pay good money to have such a bright apartment!! it feels grown up and alive! I am in love (ok, maybe soon to be obsessed) with your cat stencils. I am very intrigued by your use of large artwork, as I always feared it would have the opposite affect but I think it really does open up the space! Those must be some great friends to give up that cute bassinet ;)

I love the bathroom and seeing as it's a rental you couldn't gut it anyways (seems no one read it was a rental). The mobile is unique and tutorials on how to make?

Not sure how anyone could like Kelly Wearstler but not that bathroom. It is gorgeous and works so well with the Hollywood Regency look got going on in other parts of the apartment. In my opinion it makes the whole place! Hopefully the owners will be too busy with the new baby to touch it...

nice! also curious about DIY art above shelving. I also agree on false title. only evidence of bab is that bassinet. will be interesting how kiddo space and things are incorporated over time.

I seriously love this place! Before I entered the tour and had just read the first bit I was like, meh, babies ruin everything! ;) But the bassinet and mobile are adorable and totally go with the rest of the space.

I am starting to loose interest in this site...its becoming very saccharine. This is a perfectly lovely Apt. with an enduringly lovely couple, but all these posts look and feel exactly the same. Take $20,000 and over pay for furnishing and pieces made to look vintage/retro/thrifted and find yourself with a sweet little home tour on Apt Therapy. Everything is so precious and exhaustingly perfect it becomes anemic and lifeless. I need new blood and new ideas from this site...something with an edge that can and will cut.

A lovely place and I agree, don't touch that bathroom, if it's in good shape that is. Anything vintage, and in good shape, no mold etc is worthy and it looks like you made good use of the color combo in there to your advantage so just rock it as best you can.

Besides, as renters, you are more than likely are forced to live with it, unless you two move.

I also agree with other posters, don't be blind sided by trends, yeah, the rustic beam and Edison bulbs may be passe, but so what? If it works in your space, rock it and own it.

The best decorated spaces are those that don't slave to then current fashions, but to your actual tastes and likes and just let it evolve over time, that is the best way to decorate IMO.

Overall, nice work

That bathroom is beautiful! So different a beautiful. The whole apartment rocks, but the bathroom is sublime.

We did make the scribble art. It was a super quick diy project. We got the frame at Aaron Brothers when they had a sale on custom frames. We were originally just going to get the frame, but they said it would be the same cost to install something in it, so we went home and scribbled it and went back and dropped it off with them. Super easy- and quite fun :)

You had me at Nob Hill.

Fantastic pad. I love everything.

A great house and I agree with EVERYbody-the bathroom is fabulous!

I wish my bathroom looked like that, I have really sad "stone" tiles and serious grout issues. We live in the same neighborhood, though! I love seeing all the different apartments in my area.

The bathroom is actually my favourite room!

Thanks for all the bathroom love. To be fair, Bess caught the bathroom at it's BEST angle. The elements that need to go are the boob light (an SF renters' staple), the 70's frosted glass vanity light, and the sink cupboard is a particle board big box store special. The floor tile, we love.

Cat stencil is from Cutting Edge Stencils: http://www.cuttingedgestencils.com/wall-stencil-cats.html The promo photo is pretty hilarious.

Fun place, very nice! But wait, what do you mean: pulled the bassinet from a DUMPSTER? ... I'm a great believer in finding good things on the street and possibly even a dumpster, but a bassinet? (Ewww.) I'm hoping that was a joke.

I really like the dining area best. Love the colour on the walls and the painting. I like the light fitting as well & totally agree that one shouldn't give a monkeys as to whether or not something is passe. If you like it, that's all that matters.

I agree, though, that the title is misleading. Sticking a crib in the bedroom (especially one that sounds like it has been retrieved from a dustbin!) is not really preparing for the arrival of a baby. Sacrificing loads of storage is probably the first thing that's needed. I also think the mobile is lovely to look at, but won't really stimulate a baby. Strong black & white contrasts are supposed to work best.

It looks like a lovely airy flat, though and you seem to have the style and practicality to make it a welcoming home for your new arrival. Good luck.

Great tour but not baby friendly. Would love to see a tour 9 months from now.

95% non-child friendly??? Give them a break, they'll have a baby not a bulldozer. (I'd put the kitchen knives in a drawer though.)

Love the bathroom.

So beautiful!

I don't see how this apartment is not baby-friendly. It's not like a baby is going to be able to crawl or walk right away, or critique the lack of storage. Babies are really not independent or self reliant individuals for a long time. Who cares if their tables don't have corner guards? The baby won't even get to the corners for some time.

I was wondering that myself... and good luck baby proofing about a year from now!!!

Amen Houseoffu!

Love your place and especially the bathroom! You didn't mention anything about the art on the entryway wall. Who's the artist? I love it. Amazing how many of us in our 60's managed to survive a time when nobody baby-proofed. The word didn't exist. Enjoy!

Jeez, the criticisms and snippiness on this board! Love the place, esp. your bathroom tile, I've seen some heinous color combos and these were pretty and warm, a nice pop of color as seen from the hallway. Your baby will be lucky to grow up in a fascinating multi-culti city.

OHMYGOODNESS!! Those books are going to fall on the baby and knock him or her out! Just kidding… I figured that would be one of the first comments I'd see on this blog and… yep, there it was.

The house tour looks great - really fun mix of styles.

A large portion of the AT readership loves to be the "that's not child-friendly!" police. The rest of us find it quite amusing. I still get a laugh about the comments our kids' room got last year when it was featured… the guitar hanging on the wall was a bad idea because kids might be tempted to scale the furniture in order to play with it. And the monkey poster on the wall "could be scary to some kids." Thank God my toddler has not be traumatized by any pop art so far.

Really nice space! LOVE the stenciled wall, nice job, I know how hard that is! Rethink the bathroom re-do. The tile looks pretty cool and has some character. The spot of color is nice in an otherwise monochromatic home.

Very cool.

Very interesting home, I liked this tour. And congrats on the impending babe!

To all the posters here screaming for corner guards, how many of us survived childhood without them? And we all probably have a greater sense of aesthetics for it.

Lovely place, by the way.

beautiful flat but can we see it once the kid has been born and then grown and trashed it a little like most peoples homes whom have children perhaps? I'd love to see how they deal artistically with all the paraphernalia that wee ones bring!! Just a thought! otherwise i'm a little bit jealous that my home isn't this beautiful...ho hum! Really well thought out.

lovely place and congratulations! we're expecting our first, too. <3

Loads of great things about this space - love that it's stylish but not too predictable or "themey." But yeah, enjoy it now because once your kid is mobile, and especially when they hit 18 months, all your crap is going to be all over the place ie. books will constantly be taken off shelves, anything within reach will be taken/eaten/thrown/hidden/ripped, etc. And give me a break with the mobile people - it's PAPER, it's not made of lead and I'm pretty sure they were smart enough to securely hang it and not have it precariously dangling with dental floss. There is no need to childproof your house until your kid is mobile and really, I think people go overboard with it. Anyway, great tour and congrats on your soon to be baby!

Yeah, the pearl clutching over the lack of child proofing is really annoying. Why the heck should they ugly up their home with a bunch of childproofing well before it's even necessary? I'm sure they'll take sufficient measures in due time, but until then they should be able to enjoy their lovely home just the way it is. The comments about the mobile are also annoying. I'm sure it never occurred to them that it could fall if it's not hung securely and they're totally ignorant that they live in earthquake country. Sheesh.

Beautiful home, love the bathroom tile, and congrats on your baby-to-be!

Lovely home. Nice to see a smaller city home for a family than the usual very large apartment or house. My own family of 3 have been cohabitating pretty satisfactorily in a 1-bedroom SF apartment of a similar size. I am curious where your changing table will be placed, but it looks like you can make room for it in your bedroom.

I love that you treat have a new baby as nothing more than a new decorating dilemma. Really it's more important that your apartment look cute than be safe for a baby. I'm sure your wee one will be so precocious that rather than stick things in their mouth, they will make a lovely decoupage out of whatever they find on the floor.

Please don't change the bathroom, it's so cool!

@Colourfiend - seriously? A newborn baby is not going to run around the house sticking its fingers into plug sockets, guzzle a bottle of Windex out of the cupboard, or pull down heirloom trinkets over their head. When the kid hits 7ish months I'm sure they'll realize that they need to change it up a bit. And why shouldn't parents want to create a nice space for their kid? What's wrong with that? I'm quite sure they realize the monumentality of bringing a human into the world and aren't just having a baby to decorate a nursery. The only real safety issue you need to be concerned about with a newborn is the sleeping situation, everything else can be dealt with later.

Love the dining room paint color. What color is it and by whom? Thanks

and will also collect the dust

Wow! That bathroom is gorgeous! I love the green and yellow tile.

I also really like the kitty stencils and the dining table light. Very nicely done.

And the book mobile. :)

Why does everyone think you have to have a changing table? We just put a pad down and used the bed or the floor.

Can anyone ID that globe? IN LOVE!

JUNCTURE

love it - particularly the living room.

I love the wallpaper in the bedroom and the headboard on the bed!

Love everything....well done

You two have a good mix of style and patience to create something unique out in a rented unit. I used to live in L.N.H. too, and, oh boy, do I remember the beautiful details on the ceilings, the amazing floors, and the crisp white walls around the bay windows!

I understand you'll have tons, I mean, TONS of opportunity to rethink what you've created as a childless couple once the little one is born (from spending to much time at your vanity...-- sorry but that aint gonna happen any more, honey -- to the display of unique objects that may be a little too heavy or delicate for curious/impulsive hands,) and I would love to see the updated version of the apartment a couple years from now. AT, c'mon, give us second round tours, will ya!

You both obviously have the gift and the eye for it. :-) And, yes, the bathroom was cleverly enhanced by the choice of green objects and towels -- not my cup of tea bathroom but you really did a good job incorporating these elements, it flows well!

AHHHH!!! I loVE LOVE LOVE the cat stencils & the white dog figure in your house! So inspired to create a space with my crazy love of animals w/o looking crazy :) Gorgeous & whimsical! And I completely thought those were cats were wallpapered on. You've got extreme patience!

Love your space and though green is not my greatest love on color, please, please don't tear it out. It flows so nicely with your space and expresses a level of craftsmanship that hardly exists today. Plus the green is almost identical to this years Patone color, so it is in style:)

Where I can find the mirror tiles? Beautiful house!!!

I love this tour. The styling of your home is amazing.

I agree that the title was misleading, but I also agree with many of the comments that you have plenty of time to baby proof and then toddler proof your home. Not all babies are alike. So, you may end up having to more or less of it than you might think.

Baby may not be able to see the beautiful mobile right away, but my son loved his white seagulls by the time he was 4 months, and still loves them above his big boy bed at 2. I'm sure your mobile will become a treasured piece as your baby grows up. And, you can enjoy it now!

I, too, would love to see an update a year or two from now. I would imagine that you will have many beautiful and creative ways of incorporating babies gear, toys, etc, into your home