click thumbnails for larger picsOn a recent visit with our four-year-old nephews, we brought them to the Bay Area Discovery Museum and found ourselves enchanted by the giant maze and tunnel made from...
Built in 1872 the Palmtag Muzzio Bowen Mansion, which sits on LaSelva Beach, just outisde Santa Cruz, is surrounded by organic farms and panoramic ocean views. It's a short walk to the beach and best...
There's something comforting about those steep roofs blanketed in thick layers of snow. The Finnish-American architect, David Salmela, has winter architecture in his bones. He was born into a Finnis...
Last Wednesday, West Elm opened the doors to its new Emeryville location. This is the second store in the Bay Area, and the company’s first built “from the ground up using green building practices...
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...
Blik and other purveyers of peel and stick wall graphics have been raging for a while now. But we think text is a cool idea, too, and one that is more personal and customizable. ...
One of our favorite things about this job is finding people who do what they are passionate about and create beautiful things along the way. Sonoma county-based Paul and Elizabeth Kaiser are definitel...
Lately we've been feeling a little frustrated by how, well, unkempt our bed looks. With a duvet, quilts, and featherbed, it looks a little bulky. These days we're drawn to the sleek, neat, modern ...
A walk through Watson Kennedy induces the best kind of browsing stupor, where every shelf holds a new hidden treasure, as if it were planted there just for you to find and make special. The kind of...
For everyone who wanted a secret passageway or closet when they were kids, these are for you: Woodfold Custom Bookcase Doors. The Oregon company's Bookcase Door System is an intriguing storage solu...
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 ...
In a previous life Whit McLeod was a wildlife biologist, but today you'll find him at his workshop in the evergreen hamlet of Arcata (which is probably where we'd be if we weren't such confirmed city-...
Blik and other purveyers of peel and stick wall graphics have been raging for a while now. But we think text is a cool idea too, one that's more personal and customizable. Wallwords is an online ser...
Doesn't the White Flower Farm catalog signal the coming of spring? It always did when we were kids. There was something about seeing it in the mailbox that made us think past the rainy California win...
A Williams Sonoma Home store just opened at Stanford Shopping Center. We thought we'd take a look so that we could give you the real scoop. When the catalog first came out, Maxwell described the Wi...
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