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Janakos & Company

Yesterday we stopped in at one of our favorite Peninsula shops, Janakos & Company. The Burlingame store first drew our attention when ...

Whole House Building Supply & Salvage

If you've ever driven around the Peninsula, you may have noticed Whole House Building Supply & Salvage's bright yellow House Demolition Sale signs. The company conducts salvage sales at homes that a...

La Petite Chaise

About a year ago, La Petite Chaise moved from Mountain View's Castro Street and set up shop in a funky little space right across Central Expressway. Until recently they held sales just one weekend a ...

Reclaim

The green-painted brick storefront is the first clue to what lies inside Reclaim, located on the site of a former rug store on Menlo Park's main drag. The store, which opened in late March, carries a...

Emma's Eco-Clean

We've never quite figured out how people juggle moving and cleaning. Just how do they move everything, get things set up in the new place, and clean the old place, all at once? It's a puzzle. We dec...

Hoot Judkins

          As a kid, we remember taking lots of trips to the unfinished wood store with our dad. The furniture was not only affordable, but also allowed us t...

One Big Man & One Big Truck

Moving is often cited as one of the most stressful life events. One way to help alleviate some of that stress is to use a reliable mover. Fred Wallace started One Big Man & One Big Truck in 1983. A...

CrossCut Shredding

It probably comes as no surprise to you that because of the nature of our work, friends and family often ask us for advice regarding just about anything home-related. This week, for a family member w...

Eco Design Resources

While working as an interior designer, Alicia Peche developed allergies to nasty building materials. She then began seeking out healthy, non-toxic alternatives. At that time there were few resources...

La Petite Chaise

If you're on the lookout for vintage home and garden items, and you're not interested in paying City prices, consider taking a drive down the Peninsula. You probably already know about Janakos and Co...

Fresh Air Janitorial & House Cleaning

Janakos and Company

Midway between trendy Burlingame Avenue and more down-to-earth, resident-oriented Broadway lies Janakos and Company. Although we'd been meaning to stop in for ages, the store quickly bumped to the to...

Daiso

There is indeed more to Japanese retailing than just Hello Kitty characters, and Daiso is proof of that. In Japan, the chain is often referred to as the 100-yen shop, which is the equivalent of our ...

Green Building Exchange

When it comes to remodeling or brand-new construction, more and more homeowners are seeking out greener ways to do things. Thankfully, the Green Building Exchange in Redwood City is there to offer som...

Whole House Building Supply & Salvage

We've been to a few of the SF and East Bay salvage yards mentioned in our recent Top Ten: Sources for Architectural Salvage, but somehow Whole House Building Supply & Salvage had fallen off our radar ...

Stanford Surplus Property Sales

O.K., so everyone knows about Craigslist. And Victoria's written about her adventures at Alameda and Alemany -- and Lisa's just found a great chair at Goodwill. . .but what about other sources for ine...

Aria Tailoring

If you've ever searched for a good, affordable seamstress/tailor to, say, make a duvet cover out of vintage French linens, you'll have experienced the following: Outrageous price quotes. Being told ...

Antique Trove

Sometimes it just seems like a really long time between first Sundays, when we make the trek to Alameda. And so we try to search out places that can give us that feeling of satisfaction that comes wi...

Proof-It Pest Service

After the installation of a new wall heater in our rental apartment in December we began receiving visits from a member of the Mus musculus family. He was tiny alright -- tiny and terrifying. At fir...

Bose Showcase Store

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Frys = Geek Heaven

(Welcome again to Martina, one of the finalists vying for a blogging position at the upcoming AT:Home Tech. Comment away.) Simply mention the word to any technologically inclined friend you know. Say...

GreenCitizen

About a year ago, we drove our ancient, dead laptop around in the trunk of our car for quite a while before learning about GreenCitizen. At that point, they had just one location, in Palo Alto. Now ...

Dream

We were tipped off to Dream by AT:SF reader Vince. We may never have found it otherwise. The little shop is tucked away in a funky, quiet area of San Mateo, sharing a block with industrial spaces an...

Greenway Maid

Most of us have such little free time these days that we just don't want to spend it cleaning. And, well, sometimes a really good cleaning is in order before the relatives descend for the (gasp, we'r...