- What: The Sunset Idea House.
- Where: The Mission District, San Francisco.
- When: Photos taken last month. The House is open again through January 27 (Friday, Saturday, and Sunday; 9am-4pm).
- Why: When we toured the House, we were most impressed by the tiles found throughout — a good mix of styles, colors and textures. The Heath Ceramics tiles shown above were incorporated in the wet bar as well as the patio kitchen, making for a smooth transition between the indoor and outdoor spaces.
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More Heath Ceramics tiles in the garden.
These Pratt & Larson "Polka Dots" tiles are great in a children's bathroom.
Sliced pebble tiles by Artistic Stone Gallery offer an organic yet polished look in a powder room.
An Angela Adams design for Ann Sacks.
A two-color version of the Angela Adams/Ann Sacks tiles shown above.
View these tiles — and many more — at the Sunset Idea House, which is open every weekend for the rest of the month. More details are available on the Sunset website. (Apologies for my bad photography that doesn't do the tiles justice!)
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Comments (3)
The childrens bath tiles? They remind me of the dots in those color-blind tests.
I asked my color-blind boyfriend what he thought and his response was "if you say there are numbers all over the wall.. i'm gonna have to say i can't see them. :("
I like the rectangular ones - the dots and the retro curvy ones will be cute for about 5 seconds and then just garish.
I toured this house during the eco-tour late last year (2007). I'd seen it from the street for quite some time before the house and was intrigue by what might be inside. When the tour came about...I was sourly dissapointed. All the individual components were nice (and $$$): tiles, light fixtures, etc... But all put together it was a horrendous cacophany. Overly complicated, over designed, and bad workmanship (look closely at the edges where materials meet each other). It's no wonder that its feature in Sunset magazine only showed the facade and no interior shots.