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SF Survey: What Kind of Cleaning Products Do You Use?

Here at AT we're big fans of non-toxic cleaning products. They're better for the earth and better for your health. That said, we know some people are skeptical of their cleaning powers, and we admit t...

SF Survey: Street Noise or Neighbor Noise?

While working on our SF Good Questions: How Can I Reduce the Sound of Street Noise? earlier today, we realized that's it's not street noise that bothers us, it's neighbor noise. And we've lived next ...

Survey: How Small is Your Home?

Yesterday we mentioned to someone that we live in a 300-square foot home, and their response was, "Wow, that's really small." That's the reaction we always get. With the start of Small Cool Month, w...

Survey: Do You Use Fluorescent Light Bulbs?

We had to buy some light bulbs over the weekend, and we have to admit we bought incandescent ones. Yes, we felt guilty for bypassing the fluorescent bulbs, but we still did it. Although we keep read...

AT Reader's Survey 2008

Dear Readers, below the jump you'll find a Reader Survey - something we've never done before - that will help us get to know who all is out there. We'd love it if you'd take a few minutes to go throu...

SF Survey: Do You Have Art in Your Bathroom?

Kim showed off some of the art in her bathroom earlier today -- and we realized that although we take it for granted that art belongs in a bathroom, we're not sure everyone feels the same way. We w...

SF Survey: How Do You Arrange Your Books?

We are blessed to live in a rental with great built-in bookcases. However, a year and a half after moving in we have yet to arrange our books in any way other than the order in which they were unpack...

SF Survey: What's Your Biggest Decorating Peeve?

A friend emailed us this week about a photo of a toilet with its lid up -- she knows that's one of our pet peeves. Earlier today we admitted that we're not in love with knotty pine. Other things tha...

SF Survey: Do You Have Pets?

Earlier today, AT:LA had a post about what you should do if your roommate brings home a stray dog -- it was actually written because of a lost dog in San Francisco. Since this issue hits a bit close ...

November/December is Party Month!

When are the guests arriving? With our Fall Contest over, and Thanksgiving done, we're rolling into the height of entertaining season. We'll be spending the next four weeks (until Xmas) concentrating...

Black Friday or Buy Nothing Day?

As you read this, we're about to get onto an airplane and head off for a few days of nothing but sunshine, books, and good food. Even if we weren't, the last thing we'd want to be doing is pushing th...

Who's Your Fall Colors Pick?

Click on any square to see the home. More below - click here. Following AT:NY's lead, we wonder who you think should win the Fall Colors Contest. Then, at the party tonight, see how well your ...

October is Fall Colors Month!

We have a confession. While we love and admire color in other people's homes, we live surrounded by white. With our eyes bombarded by color and imagery all day long, we agree with designer Steven ...

Tell Us More: Comments, Take Two

You have our full attention. Yesterday, the numbers in our survey showed that most people want us to leave the comments on for our contests. However, since we received half the number of contest en...

October is Colors Month!

You've got color! Welcome to our last week of posting entries in the Fall Colors Contest. We've felt inspired by the details -- colorful and otherwise -- in the homes that our readers have so graciou...

Do You Have a Grab-and-Go Bag?

Shake, rattle, and roll. And we interrupt our regular programming with a reminder that today's the anniversary of the '89 quake. So it's time for a little reality check. We were about to re-run a ...

Vote: AT:San Francisco or AT:Bay Area?

We have a question for you. AT is re-launching next month -- stay tuned for some really exciting changes -- and we're debating about whether or not to re-name AT:San Francisco. There are a few blo...

October is Colors Month!

A few years ago, someone said the following to us: My dream is to live in an all-white cottage by the beach, with just books, art, and flowers for color. During these 31 days devoted to color, we're ...

October is Colors Month!

We really admire people like Victoria, who just pick up a paintbrush and a can of paint, and splash coral pink across a wall. Although we've painted apartments in the past, we've picked colors like a...

Survey: Store Stickers

Did you see this post on AT:NY yesterday? If not, click over and vote for which sticker is your favorite. The stickers will be sent to stores that we've written about, so they can put them in the...

Apartment Therapy Get-Together?

What's your schedule looking like next Wednesday? Since Maxwell will be in town, we're considering holding a little get-together in downtown San Francisco. We can talk about the Fall Cure (with the ...

One Last Summer Escape?

Although we don't have a funky modern beach house to which we can go for Labor Day, we still plan to do our own little escape. . .by staying off the computer for three days, doing nothing more stre...

Too Early for Halloween Decor?

We were strolling through Stanford Shopping Center last week when something suddenly stopped us in our tracks. Black. Orange. Skeletons, cobwebs and jack-o-lanterns. Yes, Halloween decorations had a...

Do You Use Movers?

We've moved a lot. We've never used professional movers. We've also ended up completely and utterly exhausted after packing, lugging stuff between apartments all day long, coordinating the pet mov...

Walk Score: How walkable is your San Francisco?

Do you consider San Francisco a walkable city? Do you eschew cars? Our little neighborhood, even though it is sandwiched on three sides by some fairly daunting hills, scores an amazing 98 points ou...

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