places

Even though it’s still sunny and warm here in Northern California and our last heat wave of the season is behind us (we hope!), I can feel the subtle change in the air that lets me know autumn is [...]

Marilyn and Bob decided to build their dream home on top of a mountain. Marilyn had a special relationship with Mount Tamalpais.

I’m lucky.  I have the privilege of witnessing miracles every day. Maybe they are not the kind of miracles you typically think of.  But to me, they are miraculous.  

I heard an interview on NPR recently with Gloria Steinem who was talking about her new book My Life on the Road.  Her family traveled by car throughout the US during the early part of her life [...]

I gave a dinner party last weekend in Santa Fe to honor my friends and the garden flowers. When I bought my casita 10 years ago in an old Hispanic compound on the city’s historic east-side, the [...]

I have always believed in the power of the butterscotch colors of the sun to bring those Chelsea morning feelings into our homes.

I am a big believer in making living spaces appeal to all our senses. But no matter how carefully I help people select finishes, fixtures, furnishings and fabrics to create beauty in their indoor [...]

The downtown San Francisco condo my clients bought had all the challenges of a small city apartment, plus a unique one. The high-rise Infinity Tower is an all-glass, clover-shaped structure, with [...]

Something invisible is hiding inside that you probably don’t realize you have – your own, one of a kind, unique eye for beauty. I have witnessed this repeatedly over the past 30 years while [...]

Something invisible is hiding inside that you probably don’t realize you have – your own, one of a kind, unique eye for beauty. I have witnessed this repeatedly over the past 30 years while [...]