CB2's "Can Do" Food Drive
As part of CB2's goal to have stores engage with the needs of their communities, it is once again holding its "Can Do" Food Drives in its San Francisco, Berkeley, Los Angeles, Chicago and New York s...
As part of CB2's goal to have stores engage with the needs of their communities, it is once again holding its "Can Do" Food Drives in its San Francisco, Berkeley, Los Angeles, Chicago and New York s...
We recently came across the work of San Francisco furniture designer Dylan Gold, whose fabulous "cornered" table won Best in Show at DWR's M+D+F contest back in May. If you love the clever way the des...
Candles melting all over wine bottles seems to have been a staple of romance movies of a certain time, but we haven't seen them recently. This throwback amused us, because the candle stuck into the ...
We get asked all the time about inexpensive ways to frame art. Our answers have run the gamut from super-cheap, cheap, inexpensive, and on and on. But, for some reason Cheap Pete's has never been pro...
Carmel Bay Company has been around for as long as we can remember -- and it's always been a go-to place for great home furnishings and gifts. Every single time we set foot in the door we leave with...
Couch is almost too good to be true. The brand-new store in Fremont makes custom couches out of eco-friendly materials with the smallest mark-up possible, cutting overhead costs by sharing space wit...
Tired of posting your own furniture ads on Craigslist? Looking for a great local resource for gently used furniture? Chameleon Consignment is a husband/wife team operating a 6,000 square-feet consign...
When looking for window coverings for our bay windows, we went to Conrad Shades -- a store renowned for its elegantly unfussy hand-woven window coverings. Drawing inspiration from nature, Conrad Shad...
C.G. Sparks' products have three important factors in common: beauty, utility, and longevity. Their real-wood Indian and Tibetan antiques are timeless in their design and functionality....
Collective is one of those places that we almost don't want to spread the word too far about, because it's such a choice destination for immaculately restored and maintained vintage Danish pieces. O...
City People's Mercantile might be one of the more underestimated home resources in Seattle. In the guise of a small-town hardware, sundry and garden store, a vast yet choosy selection of vessels, ca...
Carpets need cleaning? We wholeheartedly recommend Complete Carpet & Upholstery Cleaners. David Mercurio has been cleaning carpets and upholstery for over 20 years, and we can personally attest to th...
Every single Thursday we buy fresh flowers for our apartment and almost every single Thursday we buy them at Cable Car Flowers. The location can't be beat, and the prices are fantastic. Plenty of ph...
Going north along Vancouver's happening Granville Street from Broadway, you'll come across Chachkas, the local outlet for high-design homewares by the likes of Alessi, Umbra and more....
We take the 22 through Potrero Hill for our daily commute, and after a long day at work it is always refreshing to look out and see what kind of treasures are on display at this store. ...
Don't be fooled by the logo font. Seattle's Consign Design is a perfectly viable source for upscale home furnishings, and an alternative to Craigslist for unloading nicer pieces that have done thei...
We hate stores that make us feel frantic. We recently walked into a store and immediately made a U-turn right back outside because the loud music, the bright colors and the piles of products were ju...
We have an annoying tendency to kill more plants than we would like...which is exactly how we discovered cacti and succulents. They have an incredible ability to ward of our "black-thumbs-of-plant-m...
The owners of Cielo Home have a mantra. "Life's short...live luxuriously" may also pop into your head as you consider shelling out multiple thousands of dollars for an upholstered piece. Luckily, l...
It’s always a lucky day at Clover House. Throws, lamps and home accessories form the complement of wares at a shop where the real highlights are the plants, high-quality body products and a fantasti...
Sometimes good things come by the container load. The importer of primarily asian wares and antique pieces doesn’t sell much on their website (we counted a whopping six items), but don’t let that fo...
"Billie Holiday" by Steven Geeter Creativity Explored is a nonprofit visual arts center where artists with developmental disabilities create, exhibit, and sell art. Their store not only sells art...
It probably comes as no surprise to you that because of the nature of our work, friends and family often ask us for advice regarding just about anything home-related. This week, for a family member w...
Carpet cleaning is just not fun for a novice. For that very reason, we wholeheartedly recommend Complete Carpet & Upholstery Cleaners. David Mercurio has been cleaning carpets and upholstery for o...
At this point we've seen a lot of wall decals on design blogs. But it is Reversible Decor month here at AT:SF. so we're blogging one that we haven't yet covered, Australia-based Candiy*, which sells t...