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Blogging the SF Chronicle: Certified Mission District Remodel Goes Green to the Gills

Last week Anh-Minh gave us a sneak peek into the Sunset Idea House. Saturday's Chronicle included her longer article on San Francisco's first Idea House, which is also one of the first remodeled ho...

Blogging the Chronicle: Green Table Decor

Wednesday morning eye candy. We missed Elle Decor's Dining by Design event earlier this month, so we were pleased to see the Chron cover it in today's H&G section. In "Green Inspirations for Holiday...

Blogging the Chronicle: Feng Shui? Forget It. Vaastu Shastra is Now Attracting Followers

Let the sun shine in. Today's Chron features an article by Nancy Davis Kho on vaastu shastra, the design philosophy based on ancient Indian Hindu scriptures. ...

Blogging the Chronicle: What's in Furniture? It's Enough to Make You Sick

Susan Fornoff's article hit home. In Wednesday's H&G she writes about Laura Ingram, who had violent allergic reactions to the chemical lacquer in newly purchased bookcases... ...

Blogging the Chronicle: Want a Life of Leisure? Be a Renter

Last we checked, there were 112 comments in response to Susan Fornoff's article from Saturday's H&G. In Want a life of leisure? Be a renter, she details how she and her husband sold their Alameda t...

Blogging the Chronicle: Sally Socolich's List of Sales

Sally Socolich is the undisputed Queen of Sales. In yesterday's Chronicle, she listed several upcoming ones, including Dandelion and Pina Zangaro. Since it doesn't seem right to just take the inform...

Blogging the Chronicle: Design Spotting: World Design Congress

Good design. A big design event takes place in San Francisco over the next few days. In Saturday's Chronicle, Zahid Sardar quotes Bill Moggridge (inventor of the first laptop, a founder of IDEO, a...

Home & Garden Roundup: 10.06.07 & 10.10.07

From Victorian to...Victorian. Susan Fornoff's article, Fall is time for home tours, including a modern Victorian, features a Victorian that was gutted and then renovated to look sort of modernized...

Blogging the Chronicle: Ranch Homes

Remember the infamous article about an Eichler in the Chron last July? Over a year later, the paper bravely lets Jerome Gagnon profile an Eichler in San Jose's Fairglen neighborhood -- and a non-Ei...

Blogging the Chronicle: Fall Home Design Magazine

Sunday's Fall Home Design Magazine offered up four articles by Chronicle design editor Zahid Sardar. Bliss. Be sure to check out all the photos. ...

Home & Garden Roundup: 08.22.07 & 08.25.07

Yesterday's Chron included a glossy design magazine -- but that will have to wait for another post. Stay tuned. Design Spotting: A product design and branding firm takes charge: Zahid Sardar on th...

Home & Garden Roundup: 08.15.07 and 08.18.07

Recent articles in the Chron's H&G included one by Susan Fornoff on online furniture shopping. In Clicking for couches: Shoppers buying more furniture online, she talks to several retailers about t...

Home & Garden Roundup: 08.08.07 and 08.11.07

Highlights from the Chron's H&G: Design Spotting: A 1920s cottage in fire-torn Angora hills is a model for rebuilding: Zahid Sardar features Juniper Ledge, a 1,300-square foot cabin on the south si...

Home & Garden Highlights: 08.01.07 and 08.04.07

Almost everyone but Susan Fornoff seems to be on vacation... AROUND THE HOUSE: Susan's endorsable finds include BoundlessGallery.com and Perlick's super narrow under-the-counter fridges. Sally's res...

At Home With John Baden

Although we recently decided to consolidate our coverage of the Chron's Home & Garden section to just once a week, we can't resist pointing out Anh-Minh's article from yesterday's paper. Check ou...

Home & Garden Highlights: 07.25.07 and 07.28.07

Although the Chron puts out an H&G section twice a week, we're experimenting (again) with covering it just once a week. This way (we're theorizing) we will always be able to find at least a couple of ...

Home & Garden Highlights: 07.21.07

There was more than a sprinkling of green in this weekend's Chron: EXTRAVAGANT RUSTICITY: Mark S. Bacon visits the Frederick De Longchamps-designed Thunderbird Lodge in Lake Tahoe. There he uncovers ...

Home & Garden Highlights: 07.18.07

Hurray! Yesterday's Chron featured an article on a small space! We're so excited that we included a second photo below the jump. (You're wondering about other articles? Nope, that was pretty much i...

Home & Garden Highlights: 07.14.07

Chron H&G focused not on H&G this weekend, but on the Book Arts. So here's the best of the rest: AROUND THE HOUSE: If you're in the market for a new stove, Susan Fornoff recommends the new Cafe Range...

Home & Garden Highlights: 07.11.07

In Wednesday's H&G, the Chron again demonstrates that it thinks its readers are very different from AT:SF's. The House on the Hill: Judy Richter on Hillsborough's Carolands. Two people. Six staff m...

Home & Garden Highlights: 07.07.07

Zahid Sardar dominated and enlivened this weekend's H&G: Arts and Crafts redux: Sardar delves into a newish trend in the design world: crafted industrial design, as practiced by two European desig...

Home & Garden Highlights: 07.04.07

The highlights from yesterday's H&G: At home with C.C. Sabathia: Where does the Cleveland Indians pitcher spend the off-season? In Fairfield. Anh-Minh visits his very un-AT-like "manse" with its t...

Home & Garden Highlights: 06.30.07

There seems to be some soul searching going on at H&G. Apparently readers are fed up with profiles of large homes owned by people with lots of money. So this week they went small, peeking into the ti...

Home & Garden Highlights: 06.27.07

The Chron's H&G was a little light again on Wednesday. Here are the highlights: Tile marches after fashion: Joanne Furio on fashion's influence on tile, and consumers' desire to see quick changes....

Home & Garden Highlights: 06.23.07

It's a slow summer over at the Chron. At home with Levi Leipheimer and Odessa Gunn: Our own Anh-Minh visits the secluded Santa Rosa home of the champion bicyclist and uncovers a menagerie of pets, a...