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Pretty lame.

I think this is fantastic! I particularly love their kitchen. Tall open shelving just makes me happy.

don't see much design - just shelving everywhere.......

I think the idea here is they customized things to their needs, which is overall a good and smart thing to be able to do. I thought the article seemed sort of fluff, and the pictures accompanying lacked relevance to the article. As we would say here, too many vignettes, we didn't get to see the whole place, or the good examples of what's mentioned in the article.

hipsters have shelving. w00t.

thats not very nice guys... i think its a neat little place! bravo!

It's a neat little place, but seriously, a whole article on their shelving?

Wow, some of you peeps are pretty dim.
AT has featured this couple's space before (I love love love the kitchen!), and they mentioned it again because an article about their space was recently in the SF Examiner AND AT got props in the article.

So no, it's not fluff or a whole article on their shelving.
You guys should maybe use your brain before you start being unnecessarily rude (and, for what it's worth, stupid) with your commenting.

Hellllooo, Danny!

I wonder why AT didn't link to their past post about this space. Maybe the poster didn't realize this space has been on AT before. Anyway here is the link
AT took much better pictures of the space...

I didn't exactly recall this apartment from last year's Small Cool contest by any way of reference. It is strange that this couple's apartment has been featured before at least twice, their prior featured apartment was mentioned, but no links were offered. To be more specific, in case it wasn't, I thought the SF Examiner's article was kind of weak, not Lily's, except for expansion by way of links to previous articles.

This apartment has a lot of DIY and individuality which was vaguely alluded to in the Examiner's article who then chose to illustrate it with a few irrelevant pictures. It's nice they were in another publication and that they mentioned AT as a source of inspiration or whatever. Nowhere in the article did they mention jars of rice and jelly beans. They took five pictures, each of which neglected (by omission or angle) to highlight the following DIY projects/features of the apartment:

"kitchen table from the Salvation Army whose chairs Feher later covered with fabric from Mission Discount Fabric" - didn't see it

"IKEA bookshelf that was spruced up with black-and-white patterned wallpaper." - where was this?

"stripped and repainted an eye-catching pink locker in the front hallway." - I don't think I would have missed that.

"a swivel he built for the couple’s flat-screen TV" - a very neat feature as shown in the Small Cool, so why wouldn't they take a picture of that?

"pillows she had custom-made for the couch and bed,"
- although both the couch and the bed were pictured, this was not chosen for a close-up feature. Throw us a bone.

"her ability to take a piece and transform it into something completely different, such as a tapestry from Urban Outfitters that became a stylish shower curtain." - if not this another example. Did not see it.

"Artwork reflects the couple’s shared passions, such as a wall covered in images of bikes from postcards and torn from books." - you can't really see the subject of any of the pictures on the wall.

I don't know what it's like to get some recognition from a local paper, I don't know what type of rag the Examiner is. In the 6 pictures submitted to the Small Cool contest, and the SF Gate article which instead of taking pictures, linked back to the pictures submitted in their contest entry, I get a lot more info. A link would have been nice! The Examiner's report was by comparison, a lot crappy. I don't see any of the innovations that were mentioned. Of course the comments are going to be unimpressed by this apartment!

And of course we can't get patrick to stop drooling. Everyone has their schtick.

I forgot to thank Splaine for posting the link to a previous article about this couple's apartment. Thanks, Splaine!

Decent place but all they really did was add tons of shelving. Not really that creative.

Splaine, went through the link - it only shows their normal sized other areas.

I agree, we didn't get to see the DIY projects mentioned in the article, so it's hard to understand what the hype is about.

This place again? I think that this is the third time I've seen this place on AT. It's nice, but doesn't warrant all the attention.

This isn't knocking me out. It's OK, but given some of the creativity we've seen in the Small/Cool contest and other house tours, I fail to see what the excitement is about this place. Poor photography (vignettes, not the entire space) didn't help in any way.

I think the article was poorly written and executed, but that's not fair to this couple.

It looks like they have some nice little touches in here, that they have done some creative things on a budget, and they look happy in their little nest, and hats off to them. Sadly, the article reads more like, "wow, look at what the young peoples do with their teeny tiny places! Who would have thunk? Pillows and Ikea and Thrift Stores! And there's this thing called DIY where people actually make stuff instead of buying it at the Sundance Catalog. Wheee!"

Also, I've noticed a tendency in city newspaper articles like this one to unintentionally make their subjects into parodies and cliches by writing in a way that is completely out of touch with what many readers already know in their own lives. I mean, duh, who doesn't know about DIY, Ikea and Thrift Stores and that vertical shelving adds lots of storage to small spaces? Apparently the author of this article. Thus, we end up with comments like the "hipsters with shelves" one (which was unnecessarily snarky btw).

We get articles like this all the time in Portland, Oregon in our daily paper, and the never fail negative comments to follow. The article about the hip "creative" couple who remodeled their own kitchen on a dime (when in reality it was a 50K remodel), nearly caused a riot on the internets here and made the subjects look like spoiled "creative class" trust funder fakes.

So, the problem, as I see it, is not the decorating antics of this young couple, but the way the article utterly failed to highlight and show all the good things they praise in the article in the first place. That's bad journalism, not bad decor.

I also use a road map as a headboard (in my case it's the city of Montreal), and was thrilled to see someone else doing the same. Great minds. Round-up?