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San Francisco Decorator Showcase 2011

San Francisco Decorator Showcase 2011

This year’s San Francisco decorator showcase repeated the gray, brown and tan Palette that was used successfully in showcases the past two years But the palette missed it mark for this 1927 mediterranean style home. The house seemed heavy and uninspired. The few bright notes were found in Grant Gibbon’s dining room, Heather Hilliard’s tawny toned library and Val Fiscalini Master bath.

Marin Living: Home Tours

Matthew Millman, Aidlin Darling Architects Marin Home Tours

The AIA SF home tour in Marin opened up five residential homes and the work of member architects to the public. The first was a Turnbull Griffin Haesloop project which looked wonderful but required a long wait for a shuttle bus to a steep hillside property so I decided to move on to the second which was  Fischer Architecture remodel of a ranch house set in the hills of Kentfield.