Wrong pics, my friend.

I want the shoes!!!

Oh yeah, and I love the black and white kitchen table. :)

Gah! And here I thought I was unique a few years ago putting a mannequin in my house. Two tours in a row with em. Rats. I might as well have a 'keep calm' poster. :)

The top of my fridge is identical to Krystal's! Eventually, I'd like to strip off the labels and spray them white to give off a ceramic-eque look. Then use the corks to create a wreathe.

Love the lightness and breeziness of this space.

In New York that closet would be considered a bedroom.

Have absolutely no sense of the layout of this apartment from the photos ...

I'm experiencing some major shoe envy right now.

bouequet? please spell check

I love that she has a copy of "Where the Sidewalk Ends" on her bookshelf ♥

I love it! The all white walls are so fresh and bright! I'm thinking of the same sort of look for my new apartment. I love your style Krystal! Going to check out your blog right now...

I am going home to change all my shoes on the shelves to toe-to-heel! Practical, space-saving way to have your shoes on the shelf! (genius really...)

There's lots of beautiful style and creativity in this little place. Brava, Krystal!

I live in a studio in the same neighborhood -- serious kitchen envy!

And I love your hair style! Super cute!

Beautiful design, what turntable are you using?

As a photo editor, I completely agree, the photo selection is very off here. More than half of your photos are detail shots and don't at all give us a sense of the apartment. Just because it's a small place doesn't mean you can't show us the space. Needs more variety.

I agree with Kateln. I certainly enjoyed Krystal's style, but would have gotten more out of a tour which included a few more room shots.

I agree with everyone about the photo choices. Not getting a feel for the layout of the space.

Does anyone else find it strange that the first photo is Krystal surrounded by a "herd" of shoes and in the next they are all gone......Did they emerge from the closet to carry her off? Mysteriously all are absent from the next photo... hmmmm was there foul play at hand (or foot) here!

The girl has more shoes than Carrie Bradshaw.

The first picture was all I need to drool over this place.. =) Seriously though, it's a great and cute place. But, I wonder if the bed could be placed somewhere else...?

Not crazy about the space. Too white and it just doesn't feel 'cozy' to me. I don't care for decorating w/ animail parts.
I agree with the others about better getting a better photo shoot. I see she has a bike and could understand why; the area she lives in sucks for parking.

I love her blog. I wonder how she walks in those shoes too :)

wow my place is 400 sq ft, but seems so much smaller (i blame my low ceilings). I wish all house tours came with floor plans!!

Wish I could edit as well as you have done. Lovely!

Oh man, bitty, wonky shelves .... one photo of this would be enough, not two, three, half closing my eyes, can't take looking at bitty, wonky shelves .... no, no, no!

Unless she stores her shoes on the floor like that I see no point in showing us that first picture. Her place feels way too staged and not genuine. I was thoroughly disappointed in this tour. I don't think a reshoot is in order, it should have just been a house call, not a tour.

i agree with hannahsharp.. too staged and thought out for my taste

Nice and clean in terms of the style, looks much bigger than 400 sq, probably because of the pure white walls and high ceiling. I love the look though, simple is best, nice job!

love love love. this is a great SF studio tour :)

This would have been a House Call without the vignettes ;)

I loved this... it actually seems like a PERSON lives there. I didn't get the staged feeling at all.

loved this beyond adorable space!

Cute place! Too many shoes! I will never understand women who collect shoes.

i don't get some of these comments. she's a bonafide fashionista so the shoes make sense, so do the close-up photos because for this apt, the details matter. love it. studio living hasn't cramped her style. (ba dum ching.)

I'm glad to see a post where the woman actually appears to have more than 3-5 pairs of shoes (I couldn't believe I was seeing those Reed Krakoff sandals in one of the shots). I always thought having a small but attractive space involves a completely minimal amount of shoes and clothes based on most of the tours and 'small, cool' homes on this site. Unless they are hiding their clothes in the kitchen cupboards which is entirely possible. However, this house tour doesn't show how she fits all these things in 400 sq ft. I have lived in 400 sq ft and I just can't picture it. It could be a very different room shape but I wish it was more obvious from these photos. Post update with a few wider shots? It would be helpful.

I agree with previous comments. So many of the small spaces AT house tours focus on the objects inside the space and not the space itself. Frankly, it does a disservice to those who design small spaces and make them both functional and pretty. For me, my appreciation of interior design is how the space flows and how the designer wraps up the 'vignettes' to create a cohesive big picture. Focusing on the objects and not the tour contributes to the perception that designing for a small space is about surrounding oneself with objects, and suffering through the lack of functionality many of us have experienced while living in studios and small apartment. Like, only people who live in big spaces get to enjoy both. If I wanted to view pictures exclusively of sunglasses and shoes, then I would visit a fashion blog not AT.

Normally I'd agree with all the criticism on the detail shots, but I feel a little biased on this one ... I admittedly read Krystal's blog pretty religiously and was super excited to see her on AT in the first place. Love even the slightest glimpse into her living space, the details endeared me to her even more.

The studios simple, I use tech to save cash and physical space taken up by metal file cabinets for house papers like bank statements. Evev a energystar tv, CFL lighting, water saving sink spout water filter. The water filter is a MUST!

Go thru the kitchen, update to healthier cookware. Every few years, things like chemical free nonstick keeps your cooking low to zero LARD.

Another MUST a hepa-air filter if you suffer at night from bad air or pet allergies.
Bay area smog is noticable too, not just allergy week. A good nights sleep is worth it.

Antlers sounds like the anti-animal pet group. Either way Idont want something that grow viruses.

Its SFO in a old home. She would know about hot water pipe jackets to magnetic clamps,thats not countng brita water filter pitchers to drink clean water keep your hair jet black from contaminants.
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I love her collection of necklaces. I agree with most that the photos could have been better selected. I'd rather see wider shots than close-ups of the same vase of white roses over and over.

Not to mention, BRITTTTIRB, the thrilling closeup of a few non beautiful mugs and glasses on a kitchen shelf. What the . . . ? That's the one that put me over the edge---a rare state of affairs while enjoying AT!

The cover shot should have been her riding the bike wearing that matching outfit....
I looked for a pair of flats in every picture - something she could wear riding the bike and going to all those flea markets. They must be hidden somewhere?

Nice place! I long for a floor plan and better shots!

LOVE you style :D
LOVE yours shoes.

....though, @Aninhas, I have to agree with you... that's not a closet, that's a bedroom turned into a closet. my bedroom is 7x8 (maybe smaller than her closet??) and i have a closet beneath my bed. my apartment is considered a "1-bedroom", not a studio.

(also, if i had as many shoes as that i think i would sacrifice some living space to keep them in a nice place too :P)

wow! mega typos there! meant to say "love YOUR style, love YOUR shoes." silly me.

She's adorable--I just wonder whether those mega-heels do a number on one's spine health over time. Can you tell I'm a flats kinda gal?

Are not small spaces made up of a lot of details? I find these pictures inspiring for young people infusing their lives with a little space but a lot of style!

Cement walls? Good grief! I believe you mean plaster walls. They do not take well to holes being pounded or drilled into them. It's why you have all that lovely crown moulding. You are supposed to hang your pictures from brackets and wires (or brackets and ribbons) from the moulding. I hope your landlord doesn't charge you for the damage to those unique and formerly very lovely walls. Maybe he intends to rip them out and replace them with cheapo gypsum board instead of the lath and plaster.

While yes, it would've been nice to perhaps get a better overall feel of the space with more "establishing"-type photos, sometimes that's just impossible because of the way the space is broken up. Not everyone lives in a lovely open-air flat or loft that allows for great sweeping shots of an entire apartment, or even a given room.

I lived in a stunning 3-bedroom Victorian-era apartment with some friends, but I'm sad that I don't have many great photos of the space because of the weird little hallways and awkward corridors made it so that if I were to take a "sweeping" shot of the living room, I would've had to do so by shooting through a connecting hallway while standing in my kitchen, meaning you'd see two sets of doorways in the foreground. Not always going to work. I feel like these photos represented the apartment the best they could.

I store my shoes the same way. You get the benefit of seeing what the front looks like as well as the heel and you can fit more on the shelf that way.

I don't get the stack of magazines in the corner. That looks dormy to me.

I'm so jealous of that closet! Your wardrobe looks AMAZING!!

I'm really trying hard not to be jealolus! I love your space and would love to see it in person....Thanks for sharing!

Gorgeous! Just my style. Love the lightness and cleanness of the space.

where is that shower curtain from???

What a sweet place but please reshoot and do this apartment justice. I agree the photo's do not show the set up of rooms. That being said, I really like this apartment.

i love her style, but like others before me have mentioned, it shows no sense of space or the layout of the room.

Love the closet and am obsessed with that gold rose mirror! I'm completely jealous that San Fran places have those beautiful windows. Secretly, I'm having a really hard time believing this is 400 sq. ft. ... but if it is fantastic job!

While I think poster is stylish and she's done well with her small home,
I don't really care. I want to see the space. I also have hundreds of
shoes in homes in two states, but they are in the freaking shoe
closets, not an essential part of my home decoration. All hat and
no cattle with this tour.

*cry* a 400 sq ft Hayes Valley apt. has a better (and larger) kitchen (and bath) than my 1200+ sq ft /disaster/ in Berkeley.

At least we're probably paying the same rent.

Ha! I love the photographer's note! I'd be in the emergency room within minutes of putting on any pair of those shoes.

Also, I really like how Krystal approached the open necklace storage with that mismatched hardware. I could see myself picking up a few hooks at the hardware store in the near future...

Don't get the shoe thing, never have and I'm a woman...give me a comfy pair of sneakers anyday! apart from that...its a bit white for me but i like all the light.

the invasion of the shoes photo is fun & explained, but does not make up for the rest of this post; too many vignettes, no floor plan, no clear sense of room design, and why is the sofa blocking a door? the bones of the space (corner room, two bays, crown molding, wood floors, the classic galley kitchen, sunlight) are appealing. thankfully, the occupant did not do anything to ruin that; maybe that is why this is posted?

really i just instantly fell for krystal.. who is so cute and seems fun !! so then the photos and home were already winners for me!

Love your home Krystal - pretty, pretty, pretty! You've got such great style and I can't wait to start reading your blog! I love all of the eclectic glamor you have going on... and I also love all of the white. I'm very inspired :)

Pretty home, although I'd probably switch the placement of the bed and the sofa. I can't sleep near bright windows!

I really like the space but would like to more of it as well, and fewer vignettes. Also would prefer some window treatments, but that's just me. To each, his own!

*see more of it

I don't think the "studio" is all that hard to figure out. She has a main room for living/sleeping, a separate kitchen, a bathroom somewhere, and a bedroom-cum-closet. The main room has the bed and bay windows (and wall shelves flanking the bed) on one end and the couch on the cowhide at the other. That's it. The eat-in kitchen is the eat-in kitchen, the closet is the closet, the bathroom is the bathroom. Does it especially matter how the rooms connect when you can't dictate that anyway? (Not that I wouldn't appreciate a floor plan.)

Even if it's technically a 1br that she's using as a studio, 400sqft is 400sqft. You can make a closet using ikea pax wardrobes to cordon off an area, if you really want it to look separate.

I really like the main photo with the shoes, it's creative and represents the occupant and her interests. I also think it makes sense to photograph some of the detail choices that make up her space- that is part of the design and her style- this is AT, not Architectural Digest! It's a small space, it may be difficult to get sweeping view photos and a studio is only one room plus kitchen and bath. To critique someone (not the photo editor's choices, but the individual) who puts herself out there for how many shoes she has or that she blocked a door with her couch (the space is ONLY 400sq. ft!) etc. well, it comes off as very petty and tactless.

cute place! does anyone know where the duvet/comforter is from?

LBCHI, that's a West Elm duvet cover.

I actually got a pretty decent sense of the layout based on the photos but I know ATers prefer a floorplan. I don't have shoe envy (sorry! Handbag girl!) but I do like her storage solutions. I didn't mind the white-on-white; it feels very crisp and San Francisco. I love her place.