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Happy New Year! Here's to having this extra holiday day, "New Year's Day Observed." Thinking over the last two weeks, some adventures...

Neighborhoods are a great place for design ideas and one of my favorites is Japantown in San Francisco. There's about 6 blocks filled...

If you were given three acres in which to "play in the dirt," what would you do? Back in 1971, Ruth Bancroft, in her 60s at the time,...

Have you noticed that the outdoors has become the extra room you didn't know you had? Why not create an outdoor "room" this summer? ...

San Francisco Decorator Showcase - before+after.

The real star of this year's San Francisco Decorator Showcase are the walls. Glorious walls covered in Venetian plaster, cotton velvet,...

Just above Fisherman's Wharf, the 2016 San Francisco Decorator's Showcase put me in sensory overload. Built in 1929 for $30,000, this...