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This morning we were thinking of all the colorful homes we've shown off in our House Tours. We pulled a few from our arch...
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Our hottest posts this week: House Tours, How Tos, Before and Afters, and paint. Jump below to check 'em out....
Usually blue and white stripes call to mind some sort of nautical theme - not a decorating statement we'd like to make. But tweak the blue from navy to aegean and the stripes take on a Mediterranean f...
We don't like to hang things above our bed - growing up in earthquake country has made us a little paranoid about the big one. So when we switched to a bed without a headboard we were a little stumped...
We blogged earlier this week about mobiles from Design Public and we love how the simple shapes can brighten up any room. In fact, the only thing better than a mobile is a one-of-a-kind mobile, don't ...
We like Umbra. And we especially like that they give up-and-coming designers an opportunity to showcase their work. One of the "collections" we often pay attention to is the U+ Studio Collection, as...
We know it's not everyone's cup of tea, but concept lighting always appeals to use for the novelty. In this case, artist Kathleen Hills has stitched a design in the porcelain base of this mood lamp ...
In our own home, we're all for color... in small doses. The impact of the red in this version of Luc Ramael's Glam Table Lamp -- well, va-va-va-voom....
It's a commonly asked question: Should I go with an IKEA kitchen or not? We have friends who've gone this route, and also know people who are considering doing so. AT has tackled the subject before ...
The work of Sarajo Frieden is inspired by a host of disparate elements, (Japanese ukiyo-e, Hungarian embroidery, and Shaker trance drawings, to name a few) which come together to create a joyful, colo...
While many of us can't afford original artworks by most established artists, most of us can afford limited-run edition screen prints and posters by many great up-and-coming artists. We found four limi...
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This week we have five great giveaways for you -- jump below to see the fifth. Please don't forget that you have to go to...
Dear AT, I just found this drop-leaf metal table getting rained on, on the street. Is there hope for it, o creative ones? Any suggestions are appreciated.
-Brenda...
Doors are no longer just doors with The Sliding Door Company, an innovative design company specializing in clean and contemporary clear, frosted, laminated or linen glass....
We must have been inspired by this post earlier this week, but geodes have us charmed. This a-ha use of agate geodes as candleholders strikes us as magical....
We're not sure exactly what it is we love about this mirror so much, but we've recently decided it's the perfect accent piece for making a big statement without taking up much space....
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Name: Shelby
Location: Portland, OR
Type of Home: House
What inspired you to use color? We moved into this angular, open, contemporary home with soaring spaces...
local bay area goodies for a gift swap
We're off on a travel adventure, visiting a loved one who's spending some time in France. We'll be staying with him and his host family and we've been racking o...
Last night we saw a commercial for Point 'n Paint. We tend to be wary of spokespeople who yell and products that seem too good to be true, but it did catch our attention since we're about to do some ...
We've always secretly wanted one of these Bubble Chairs by Eero Aarnio. Jump below for links to this and other good finds.
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You've had a great summer. Perhaps you entertained loads of out-of-town guests, barbecued, held parties and did craft projects with the windows flung wide open. Or perhaps you spent no time at home ...
Palo Alto interior designer Joseph Hittinger worked with his client, Jim Meehan, to design for a space they'd only seen as a floor plan. The two-bedroom condo on the 59th floor of One Rincon Hill was...
There's always plenty of eye candy within the pages of Dwell, so we get even more excited when they decided put up a slideshow on their website that showcases top projects. This time around the magaz...
Item: 20 Copies of The 8 Step Home Cure, autographed to you!
Author: Maxwell Gillingham-Ryan
Value: Priceless
Description: To kick off our Fall Cure, we're giving away 20 autographed copies of our cl...
We can't quite put our finger on it, but there's something we like about the sculptural quality of these stools....
22x22 Sale October Sales...
Amy Ruppel & Trish Grantham
22x22: Special Online Sale
Fri., 10/3, 10 am Pacific Time
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AT:SF, What should I do with the blank space above my stove? I've been debating between some sort of pot rack/shelf or a framed print. I've got issues with both ideas. A pot rack over the stove just...
DIY has compiled a bunch of ideas for quick, easy alternatives to the standard painting or print for filling that empty space on your wall. We'll probably pass on the old license plates (too TGI Frida...
We blogged recently about the Margarido House -- the first in Northern California to win the LEED-H Platinum rating. Now Portland's at it, with two homes in inner SW earning the top level distinction....
Heathware is a long time favorite of ours, and we love their new limited edition Winter 2008 collection - the deep reds just speak to us, and in our opinion could certainly be used year round....
Glow and Behold. We first saw this sparkling lightscape last year in the now-defunct Blueprint. It's a lovely neutral and crystalline color palette. Click below for details on how to do this proje...
We used to live a block away from Cole Hardware, and would happily go down there and ask them a million questions about whatever current DIY project we were having trouble with - it was great. We were...
Paperstone is an FSC, Smartwood and Rainforest Alliance-certified material made from post-consumer recycled paper and petroleum-free resin. We've seen it used for countertops, but Seattle-based arti...
Here at Apartment Therapy (SF!), we absolutely adore Bay Area favorite Jay Jeffers of the Jeffers Design Group. His interior designs are innovative, unique, and really, very gorgeous. With that said...
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Name: Shannon
Location: San Francisco
Type of Home: Rented Apartment
What inspired you to use color? I lived here for two years abiding by the 'no painting' ru...
AT:SF, I am in the process of decorating my house shabby chic. Most of the furniture I am using is in the cream or white paint. I was wondering if I could find out what colors would be good for my w...
Bed linens in cool colors tend to make us feel more restful, and these from Crate and Barrel certainly have that effect. Helping is the abstract stone and bois motif woven into the texture of the co...
We love home shopping just as much as the other guy (girl?), but we can't help but notice a lot of our favorite online shops have prices that are a tad out of our reach. Usually, we just go to them f...
Over the past year, we've shared some of our backyard projects with you. They've been large-scale projects and smaller weekend projects but we have one on the list that will be our true pièce ...
GreetQ is a Seattle-based greeting card company that enables customers to pick and personalize paper greeting cards and then put them in a "queue" to be mailed out on the designated day. It's a pract...
Jennifer Zeaman at Oakland Cares Silent AuctionArt & Design Events...October is Colors Month at Apartment Therapy
HANG ART and HANG ART annex
Opening Reception: Jennifer Damas - Traces...
The Design Within Reach Twilight Sleep Sofa has always been one of our favorite daybeds - you can pick this one up for $620 less than the current sale price. Jump below for links to this and other g...
We're about to move into a new abode -- and we're planning to paint it as soon as we can. While we love color, this is a place that is definitely calling out for white paint, and lots of it. Since w...
"All the noise, noise, noise!" I hate to quote the Grinch, but the prospect of sleepless nights is causing me to already have a few. See, my apartment search has led us to a beautiful, spacious apartm...
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Joel Hester takes old automobile parts and turns them into something else entirely. We were blown away by how cool this is. Take a look at what Joel turned this Chevy hood into, after the ju...
This past weekend we visited a loft with the most amazing mobiles in it. We haven't been able to stop thinking about them, so we thought we'd do a round-up of our favorite ones from Bay Area-based De...
Our one beef with Craigslist furniture is the plethora of posts sans pictures. There's just no way we're going to Zipcar over to San Jose for a chair that could be accurately described as "Eames ins...
Orange and black is a color combo we categorically avoid most of the year due to its association with this month. In fact, even now we don't like it, so we appreciate a way to show our festiveness w...
We love Diana Fayt's ceramic pieces, and these salt and pepper cellars are no exception. While meant for the kitchen or dining room, we'd love a pair to hold earrings or rings next to the bed or on to...
Insert heavy sigh here. We could have really used a great "How To" on painting cabinets when we re-did the ones in our old apartment a few years ago. Instead, we could write a great How Not To......
After 13 years of operating two brick-and-mortar store locations, Big Pagoda is now an online-only destination. The designs strive to stay true to the essence of traditional Chinese furniture: "the s...
Are you going to the show? Opening this evening, Portland's Show2008 is a curated biennial exhibit of innovative and functional furniture design, featuring local designers.
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Candle sleeves for your chandelier. Who would have thought? The idea in itself is pretty interesting, but we're more drawn to the colors and patterns that are available. Such eye candy!...
Colorful Dining Room in Canadian House & Home
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AT:SF, Does anyone know where to find this stool?
-Melanie...
Melody Duron's duplex reminds us that a colorful home doesn't have to be aggressively so; there's a subtlety and richness in the details of her home that is just as effective at conveying a vibrant ...
We've always had a soft spot for globes. Not only are they useful for settling questions about geography, there's something classically beautiful about them as well. So we love these modern versions f...
Lookie, lookie what we found whilst stocking up on toilet paper and tissue browsing the aisles at Target. Like everyone else out there, we're doing our darndest to cut back on any unnecessary purcha...
The two founders of Yolo Colorhouse live in a Portland farmhouse that is, not surprisingly, colorful. Earlier this year Sunset featured their home, and also asked them for their color picks......
We pass by the Star Wash Laundromat on Dolores Street fairly often, but it wasn't until recently, during a night time walk, that the bright turquoise wallpaper enticed us to look inside. We were surpr...
Looking for a big sofa? This DWR - neo sectional sofa white might be just the ticket. Jump below for links to this and other good finds.
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Name: Daniel and Jason
Location: San Francisco
Size: 1,200 sq. ft. for apartment, 1,400 sq. ft. for studio
Years lived in: 28 years
When you get the opportunity and have the mean...
OK, so some of you seem to be over hanging plates, but this photo has so much else going for it we had to put it up. The tiles in the alcove, echoed in the facing wall, and the seeming incongruent par...
Clearly these residential stairs aren't up to code, but we can't help but love them anyway. They're so gorgeous. And yes, we love fancy just as much as the next person, but we love it more when natu...
AT, I live near San Francisco. I am having a really hard time finding a leather couch. I basically want this couch, only in dark brown leather... ...
Lately we've been checking out affordable real estate in the Bay Area, and we recently came across the most amazing penthouse in Old Oakland. The 24th Street house has all that and more, but what we ...
Mood lighting gets a colorful lift, printed with photography by UK artist Corinna Radcliffe. The acrylic resin shades can hang as a pendant lamp or stand at just over a foot high....
We're big fans of hooks, and have them all over the house to catch everything from jackets at the front door to jeans in the bedroom to potholders in the kitchen. These apple and pear hooks from Urba...
Reading last week's post about the octopus earring stand served as a reminder that we have way too many pieces of jewelry to find something so small very useful. Whether you're trying to store cuffli...
While walking through our fair city, we're often impressed by the beauty... and with a wafting aroma or passing glance, we're just as often reminded of the funk. When we come home, we'd rather not tra...
If you're at all familiar with San Francisco, you must know about the Gettys. But did you know Ann Getty has a residential interior design firm? And that in 2003, Ann Getty and Associates announced t...
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Name: tryn ny ty
Location: Seattle
Type of Home: Townhome
What inspired you to use color? This was a TINY room on the bottom floor of our new home that needed ...
AT:SF, I currently live in Santa Cruz and am able to work from home. With the housing market in the state that it is in, I am in the position to be able to buy a (cheap) house. So I've decided to make...
We're on a huge steel casegoods kick at the moment. When we spotted this "dead stock" (original vintage inventory that has never been used) medical cabinet at Area 51 on Seattle's Capitol Hill, the ...
Mara's old dresser, jump below to see the replacement
It always tickles our matchmaker funny-bones when we hear about a reader scoring big-time with pieces featured in our AT classifie...
Just in time for Colors Month, Saturday's Chronicle featured an article about the Color Institute recently held by House Beautiful in San Francisco. It listed the one color "that looks universally be...
AT Giveaway winner Jody (aka, longgoneblonde) wrote to us following her visit to West Coast Green this past weekend: Hi There Apartment Therapy, I just got back from West Coast Green and thought I wou...
Sleek, minimalist, space-saving. Snap up this West Elm Cadman Spine Bookcase. Jump below for links to this and other good finds.
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It's a weird thing to say (type?): Out of all the types of lamps, floor lamps are our favorite. Because of this, we thought we'd do a round-up of the best Mid-Century modern floor lamps here in San ...
Like many apartment dwellers, we don't have a dedicated office in our place, so when we started working from home our dining room became a dining room/office. We were happy to see that Leah's recent d...
Escapes Month is long gone, but after catching a glimpse of this 300-square foot, post and beam beauty, we wish we had a little more vacation time stockpiled.
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living room
AT, I will be moving to a new house in 2 weeks but I've been challenged by the windows treatment for the Living Room and Master Bedroom. The Living Room windows are 15' tall and 6' wide o...
Plain white shelves are a design staple, and they are great for taking a back seat while the art or books on top do the talking. But there's something to be said for adding a point of interest to a us...
Tea towels are generally cheap and plentiful, and if you're not afraid of sewing, useful as scrap fabric. One example of this is the blue and white tea towel curtain above, which charms us with its ...
This is an oldie, but a goodie. Back when Berkeley-based ReadyMade was still just a gleam in Meredith Corp's eye, Shoshana Berger made a splash with a preview issue that included instructions on how...
Oh, we've been having a love affair with this color lately. We like to think of it as the grown-up version of teal; it's a little bit more staid, but still super-saturated blue with a hint of green. A...
If we could add to Gregory's Top 10 Decor Inspiration Films, we'd probably include Alejandro Jodorowsky's 1973 surrealist fantasy film, Holy Mountain. While this shocking satire will definitely not be...
Wow, this takes us back! A product revival from at least the early eighties, the Sunprint Kit is an easy, low-commitment way to capture the sunlight and turn it into art....
Over the weekend we decided to take a walk around the Mission. As always, there were plenty of beautiful designs to gawk at. As we were walking down a side street off of 24th Street, we stumbled upo...
AT:SF, Please help! I believe that a few months ago I either saw on this site or was linked through this site to someone/somewhere that sells really good replicas of the "49 Mile Scenic Drive" sign th...
The description of this foldable pet bed calls it bone-shaped, but it caught our eye because of its resemblance to a certain modern design: the butterfly chair. After AT: Chicago's coverage of the A...
There's just something we love about the facets of this lamp. It's modern and interesting, but not too busy....
We admire the way Bae's co-owner, David Caler, describes himself: "a weird guy who likes weird things." One's own quirky taste is the most important guiding light you can have when taking on an aesthe...
We were excited to peek inside ReadyMade's annual "Small Spaces" issue and as usual, it didn't disappoint. In fact, when we happened upon the feature article showing off "three abodes where living s...
If you're familiar with safety spoons (spoons with heat sensitivity properties that turn white if the temperature is too high), you might be intrigued by Hansacanyon -- a line of color-altering, heat ...
Room for a Fritz Hansen Egg Chair - NEW? Here's your chance. Jump below for links to this and other good finds.
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