Award winning San Francisco designer duo, Vernon Applegate and Gioi Tran transformed an elongated wall in this Pacific Heights condo bedroom into a modern double-duty storage zone.  Flanked on both sides by a set of doors, the center section’s built in drawers [above] rise halfway up the wall leaving the lighted area above open for [...]

When I saw the display [above] of 1970-80’s era record album jackets I immediately thought of my two cousins, brothers Jon and Dave Konjoyan.  Both have spent their careers in the music industry and undoubtedly have each of these albums along with hundreds more.  Their knowledge of recording artists has always amazed me — even [...]

One of the best examples of how two different colors affect the same exact space is perfectly captured by these photos of a hallway in a Victorian house in London. For me, it’s a study in color dynamics and the often overlooked issue of what happens on the floor and stairwell.

Not surprisingly, the house belongs [...]

The entry to a house makes a powerful first impression because it’s like a screen-grab of taste that telegraphs what’s to come in terms of style. Together with color, this creates a mood. Of course entries, or foyers, vary. In extremely modern, open-plan spaces such as these lofts by New York architect and designer [...]

Occasionally, I come across smart idea that so easy and inexpensive to do, it’s surprising not to see it all over.
That would be the illusion headboards English color guru, Joa Studholme, painted right on the walls in her London home using Farrow & Ball paint colors she develops. Joa created one in her master bedroom [...]

A Jonathan Adler designed room at the California hotel Parker Palm Springs.
Morocco may be known for its vivid, flat-weave rugs but another style is so completely different you may not have realized it too, hails from Morocco.
Vintage Beni Ouarain (the name of the tribe) rugs were woven by Berber women of Morocco’s Mid-Atlas mountains in [...]