Written by: Reed Wright
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Aging Well

A spry widow decided to keep the old home she inherited. But, pushing 80, she had it redesigned to help her live there longer.  When Roberta Gordon was in her early 20s, she already …
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November 21, 2025
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Design Wear House

Noz Nozawa’s lighting fixtures are quite literally jewelry for interiors. Noz Nozawa, 38, always wanted to be a designer—“even before I knew it was a thing,” she says. But guided by her pragmatic Japanese …
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November 21, 2025
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Confident Pastels

From the outside, a 1905 Victorian in Pacific Heights, recently remodeled by David Armour of Armour Architecture, deliberately appears unchanged. Painted in subtle shades of gray and accented with a minimum of gilding, it …
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November 21, 2025
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Another Garden Dimension

Growing food in full viewBY REED WRIGHTPHOTOS BY SASHA GULISH “What researchers have discovered in ‘Blue Zone’ areas is that growing your own food is closely tied to longevity,” says landscape designer Christian Douglas. …
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October 19, 2025
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One Good Idea

 Vanishing Point For James Hunter, design principal at The Wiseman Group, inspiration often arrives unannounced. Take, for instance, the lacy gold leaf wall treatment in a San Francisco Edwardian home, reimagined by Sutro Architects. …
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September 15, 2025
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A Hideaway

A minimalist ADU blends in with its Sonoma landscape. For a busy San Francisco couple working in media—he from Northern California, she from Tokyo—the plan to build a simple ADU on his parents’ 50-acre …
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September 12, 2025
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A Hideaway

A minimalist ADU blends in with its Sonoma landscape. For a busy San Francisco couple working in media—he from Northern California, she from Tokyo—the plan to build a simple ADU on his parents’ 50-acre …
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August 27, 2025
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One Good Idea

 Vanishing Point For James Hunter, design principal at The Wiseman Group, inspiration often arrives unannounced. Take, for instance, the lacy gold leaf wall treatment in a San Francisco Edwardian home, reimagined by Sutro Architects. …
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August 27, 2025
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A Landscape in Layers

Bay Area landscape designer Janell Denler Hobart is known for her understated presence and refined work, often collaborating with architect Ken Lindsteadt on stately estate gardens that balance classical elegance with modern sensibility. That …
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June 26, 2025
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Brutalist Barnyard

Nearly nine years ago, after Andrew and Kathleen Blank of Park City, Utah, purchased a one-and-a-half-acre vineyard property west of Healdsburg, they learned that it sits on a floodplain. Neighboring creeks and the Russian …
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May 1, 2025

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