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I can't imagine getting rid of books to make room for .... art supplies?

Americans need to get over their mentality that a 5,000 foot McMansion would solve all their problems.

This is sad. What's even worse is that someone would drop upwards of a half a million on this crap.

They're capitalists. The pillows are a dead giveaway.

More variety of art that isn't blue would probably give a little more vibrancy to the place since there is so much blue.

FWIW, I live in San Francisco and for years lived in a rent stabilized apartment (there is a difference between rent control and rent stabilization) for about 5 years at which point I had saved up enough $$ to buy an apartment in San Francisco.

Keep in mind that there is a dark side to having a rent controlled apartment, which about 99% of the time doesn't override the plus of having stabilized affordable rent in a great city like this, but the landlords and owners of these buildings can be very neglectful and sometimes abusive because they resent the hell out of the law and their tenants who are benefiting from the law.

There were a few comments about a "boyfriend" in this woman's life, and I can tell you from experience I've dated a number of men with stabilized apartments and these guys are loathe to get seriously involved with women. If you move in with them, your name will often be required to be on the lease, and the primary renter wants no part of that because they get very possessive of what they've got. I had one guy tell me point blank they'd have to put a gun to his head to get him out of his apartment, so obviously any kind of long-range plan with him wasn't on the table.

For me, I stumbled into my stabilized apartment by accident and took over a lease from someone who was moving - one of the problems with capitalism is that it isn't a meritocracy. I was under no illusions that I "deserved" what I had and in fact recognized that it was a fluke ending up there. As it was, I was intent to buy so I stayed long enough to get the down payment saved up and then I split.

Yeah, this broad obviously has a good thing going. I'm not a huge fan of Pac Heights (other than the views and the weather) just because it's not anywhere near BART and you're a good Muni ride from downtown or pretty much anywhere, and getting to the freeway isn't so fast in a car either.. I chose to buy on Nob Hill, much closer to BART, the theater district, FiDi, and all the rest of it.

It's difficult to have a conversation about rent control without discussing capitalism and propertarianism in general. But since it was mentioned in the article, why would it be off limits to discuss? It also needs to be kept in mind that capitalist reformist policies like rent control can and are overturned - just look to Berkeley's rent control law to see how that worked out for renters. I know that's not news to anybody, seeing that both presidential candidates want to deep-six Social Security and Medicare. That's the risk you run in a capitalist system. Any gains for workers can and are easily unrolled.

Some good comments here though.

I"m so sick of stainless steel appliances.

What compels people to buy this crap? Because supporting anti-union anti-environmental corporate behemoths like IKEA is somehow hip? Somebody clue me in.

I like the ones that look like boulders. Reminds me of those art installations of gigantea - giant pencil erasers and pencils, a 10-foot-high screwdriver, a yard-long eggbeater, whatever.

IKEA's a union buster. I've never been inside one and don't plan on shopping there any time in the future.

I prefer the white, although this section of the room looks cluttered no matter what color is on the walls.

Definitely add more color and make just a few changes. (but whatever you do don't paint that lamp!)

1) Lose the big-ass T.V. It's too big and ends up commanding the entire room, like your eye immediately moves to it Put a large colorful piece of art on the big-ass T.V. wall.

2) Change the blanket thing draped over the sofa to a different bright color.

3) If you always have fresh flowers on that coffee table, make sure they are bright - tulips, red/pink roses, irises, whatever.

It just needs a little color here and there but I agree it looks much more sophisticated.

I've never seen anybody use the word "vibe" as a verb before. And is "greige" actually a word?

I change sheets twice a week but only because I got so used to clean sheets this often when I hired a woman to come in and clean for me 2x a week. I'm not using a cleaning lady at the moment but I love clean sheets so much that I do it myself 2x a week.

It's really not a big deal to do it this often but I don't have all those dumb "throw pillows" on my bed that everybody piles on. Just two sleeping pillows and if someone spends the night with me I've got a couple more pillows in the closet I can haul out.

Throw pillows are probably one of the reasons people don't want to deal with bed linens more frequently. I never saw the point of them since they just take up space and collect dust.