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• Summer Updates and Coastal Bathrooms
  on Jul 21, 2014 in Benjamin Moore Silent Night Chantal Gillion Coastal Bathroom turquoise table setting
  It's so hard to get a good living room photo including the view.Jen and Bob came over for an impromptu dinner Saturday night.So, I took the tray with the antique bottles from the foyer andput it on the dining room table filled with daisies.That...
• Compact Blue and White Bedroom Sources
  on Jul 18, 2014 in Anthropologie knobs IKEA. Pottery Barn burlap lamp shade Jeffrey Alan Marks Palecek Pottery Barn canvas baskets Pottery Barn Upholstered Bed Target Rope Pull Tray
  This is a follow-up to  "How to Make the Most of a Small Blue and White Bedroom."  Usually, I start with a mood board,  even for my own projects.It helps to visualize how things will come together.BeforeAfterSturdy Coat...
• Summertime Beauty in San Francisco
  on Jul 14, 2014 in Coit Tower Glammic Lombard Street North Beach San Francisco Telegraph Hill
  I've gotten some feedback to what I thought was an upbeat post about the Fourth of July in the Bay Area.  All that fog and all.  Debbie in Newport said "We had an empty house. Come stay with us next Fourth of July."...
• How To Make the Most of a Small Blue & White Bedroom
  on Jul 11, 2014 in Before and After blue and white bedroom coastal Fried Chicken Small Bedroom Tips
  Space is at a premium in San Francisco.You might have heard how the price of housing has skyrocketed in San Franciscodue to the advent of all the new internet industry millionaires and billionaires.Here is our guest room BEFORE....The shelv...
• Fourth of July in Our New Home
  on Jul 5, 2014 in Fourth of July Half Moon Bay Peach anc Blueberry Galette
  Howard, Tommy and I were feeling sorry for ourselves for not being in Newport Beach this year for the Fourth of July.So, we woke up early and headed to the beach.  No traffic at 7:30 am!First stop, was Santa Cruzwhere we watched the Wo...
• Need Therapy?
  on Jun 30, 2014 in Pottery Barn Serena and Lily
  How about some RETAIL Therapy?Wouldn't a bath with one of these gemlike soaps give you a lift?While this scent eases your troubles...One of these vases on your desk just may lift your spirits, too.There are more indulgences like those above...
• Vintage San Francisco Cocktail Party
  on Jun 24, 2014 in San Francisco Vintage Couples Shower
  On Saturday night, we had a Vintage San Francisco Couple's Showerfor our niece and her fiancé.Our neighbors were away so we were able to use the elevator landing to set up a bar.  I was worried that our place would be too small for 40 gues...
• Five Tips To Freshen Your Décor
  on Jun 18, 2014 in Decor Tips
  A few years ago I was wearing aflowing black pant suit that I thought I looked fabulous in and my mom said "It's time to retire that outfit.  It's worn out."The black was fading and the material was balling up…I just didn't noti...
• Before/After: Creating A Fresh, Inviting Living Room
  on Jun 13, 2014 in Anna French Benjamin Moore Bleeker Beige Crate and Barrel Jamie Young living room makeover
  On Wednesday, I drove forty minutes from San Francisco to my client, Dana's home in Walnut Creek.  The temperature was in thelow sixties in SF and close to 90 degrees in Walnut Creek.Seeing the cool greens and blues in Dana's new livin...
• Did You See This Feature?
  on Jun 10, 2014 in Our Home in Better Home and Gardens
  In case you missed it...here is the article about our homethat ran in the MayBetter Homes and Gardens...Opps...I sent the post out with this page missing...I wish my husband had not been away at a work event.I like the way the writer, Paige makes my...

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