Give your home interiors a personal touch
Julie Carlson
Based on my own experiences with decorating, designing and remodeling - plus a consultation with one of my favorite aesthetic authorities, Jerome Buttrick of Buttrick Wong - here is a short list of design dicta to give...

5 things in July
Sam Whiting
San Francisco: Printmaker John Baldessari can always be counted on to put a colorful face on things. A retrospective spanning four decades opens Saturday, making a nice contrast to the summer fog at the Legion of Honor....

Jennifer Devlin - a pillar of design
Sam Whiting
Architect Jennifer Devlin had never been to California until she entered graduate school at UC Berkeley, and she'd never spent time in Moffitt Undergraduate Library until her firm, EHDD of San Francisco, entered the...

Affordable home design that reflects your style
Carol Lloyd
Call me a designer scrooge, but "personal style" has always seemed like another euphemism for "out of my price range." My architect father and designer mother taught me to appreciate lovely interiors, but not how to...

Home is a canvas for this artist
Zahid Sardar, Chronicle Staff Writer
If home is sometimes the artist's muse, Darren Waterston's brightly painted residence in an 1889 Victorian north of the Panhandle seems an odd source of inspiration for the dark, moody, nature-inspired paintings he...

Gallerist Buell brings her work home - as decor
Catherine Bigelow
It takes only a few seconds in art dealer Sabrina Buell's loft to see that she is a bit like a surgeon living in a hospital. An avid collector of contemporary art since age 14, the 32-year-old gallerist has suffused her...

Leah Garchik's collections uplift humble items
Leah Garchik, Chronicle Columnist
In the view of my co-conspirator, a gent who can fill a knapsack with knickknacks faster than a Safeway clerk can fill a paper sack with cans of tuna, we are not collectors. We are accumulators. Ours is not the world of...

Southern comfort food in the Bay Area
Michael Bauer
Until fairly recently, if you lived in the Bay Area and wanted New Orleans or Southern food, you were pretty much out of luck. However, in the past few years more local chefs have offered these iconic American dishes,...