I’ve been pricing cabinets for clients lately and had a serendipitous phone call from a local shop. Rick, the sales manager at ~Woodshanti~, was contacting designers in San Francisco (I’m guessing as part of a New Year’s resolution). He invited me to check out their sustainable wood-working shop in Bayview and I was glad he [...]
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Tucked in between the Victorians and the 500 Club in San Francisco’s Mission district is the little workshop slash showroom of ~Meteor Lights~. I’ve been intrigued by this storefront since the first time I rolled past it, but never knew when it was open or if it was. Well, it is and it was this [...]
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One of my absolute favourite showrooms in the city, this is ~Cisco Home~. Their beautiful sustainable furniture is made right her in California and infinitely customizable. They recently moved from Potrero Hill to Hayes Valley and are no longer a secret for us designers to keep. Their blown glass light fixtures and repurposed army surplus [...]
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This week I’m working on three outdoor spaces and I’m on the trail for some cool landscaping notions. One client and I already hit the Alameda Antiques fair to kick off her project (watch for an upcoming post about that), but I’ve also got a few small restaurant clients who want to develop their sidewalk [...]
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Scout Sustainable Design has officially launched here in San Francisco! And as its principal and lead interior designer I’m excited to be posting the progress of one of Scout’s first projects here on Sus-out.com. I hope to post more projects like this with some back story to give an idea of the process of a [...]
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Potter, Edith Heath started the ~Heath Ceramics~ in the mid-forties with a dedication to timeless design, hand-craftsmanship, and sustainable practices (formerly known as ‘resourcefulness’). The business was bought in 2003 by husband and wife Robin Petravic and Catherine Bailey. Their mission was to revitalize the designer-maker legacy established in one of the few remaining mid-century [...]
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I went looking for flooring options for a current project that included a kitchen/dining room and new family room in a single story slab-on-grade residence. The client was considering FSC-certified walnut or bamboo cabinet doors in their kitchen renovation which would set the tone for the rest of the finishes. Our budget – $4 to $8 per square foot. Here’s where we started.
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I used to have this favorite breakfast spot. It was a hole in the wall with rumpus room-style wood paneling, stacking chairs, and a dusty dried flower arrangement at the register – nice touch. Not the sort of place that has write-ups, ads, or even a sign visible from the street that would let you [...]
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On January 1st of this year (2010) a new version of ~Title 24~ came into effect. I’m working on residential lighting right now so that’s what I zoomed in on. In general, it looks like the new standards have attempted to close any loopholes that existed where, previously, people would reconfigure their lighting set-ups or [...]
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Walking into the ~Restoration Timber~ San Francisco showroom is like walking into a vintage lumber boutique. Every square foot of flooring is dense, uniquely aged wood. There’s a pagoda of massive old growth beam construction that could have had a parallel existence as a catapult. It stands tall as the centerpiece in the open two-storey [...]
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