Written by: Reed Wright
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One Good Idea

When David Rauch and Kate Shaw, a couple of design and behavioral professionals working with firms such as Lucasfilm and Airbnb, painted their San Francisco Mission District Victorian a dark charcoal color, they liked …
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August 25, 2026
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Team Building

Caroline Nassif's design transformed her clients' 1920s home as well as their lives. What began as a quest for a better bathtub evolved into a full-scale reinvention of a 1921 Craftsman in Oakland’s Lakeshore …
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August 25, 2026
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One Good Idea – Lift Off!

From the moment you arrive at an airport, travel is facilitated by coding. Digital coding is deployed for some important aspects such as security gates, baggage destinations, and for seating. But, at San Francisco …
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May 5, 2026
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Flying Colors

San Francisco interior designer Alicia Cheung approached the redesign of a Bombardier Global 6000 as an exercise in restraint, but her choice of an electric blue exterior with ombré gradients and a tailfin decorated …
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May 5, 2026
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Starting Over

How two Pottery Barn veterans—now designer and client—brought Scandinavian mys to Healdsburg. When Marta Benson, the former CEO of Pottery Barn Brands, retired in 2024, she and her husband, Adam Willner, began searching for a …
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February 27, 2026
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Blue Note – One Good Idea

When a woman in her early 70s set out to convert her 357-square-foot 1980s art studio at The Sea Ranch—designed by Bob Hartstock—into a guest house, she enlisted Chad DeWitt of Framestudio. Known for …
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February 27, 2026
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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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February 12, 2026
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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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February 12, 2026
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Island Blue

In Westwood Highlands, color whisks the owners beyond the everyday. By the time the pandemic arrived, this San Francisco kitchen was already on borrowed time. After a decade of family life, appliances were failing, cabinetry …
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January 14, 2026
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Toward Sustainability 

In the Healdsburg countryside, architect Malcolm Davis of MDa Studios, in collaboration with Lucas & Lucas Landscape Architecture, created a barn-style guest house and an outdoor kitchen pavilion designed to accommodate both large and …
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January 14, 2026

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