apartment therapy changing the world, one room at a time

We were drawn in by the beat poetry on Hotel Boheme's website, automatically refreshing every few minutes. What we didn't know then was that this North Beach boutique hotel would become our standby San Francisco retreat, nostalgia setting in before we'd even stayed a night.

The small rooms are saturated in color and vaguely European, with mosquito netting, rattan chairs, black and white checked coverlet and parchment chinoiserie light shades. Beat generation memorabilia is framed on the walls and the hallway light is filtered by shades papered with newspaper clippings. It might all be too much if it weren't so tastefully done.