Geno B.'s Profile

Love all the different ways the collections are presented! The globes are especially compelling.

Love this house tour! Funny story, a few days after this apartment first appeared on the site, I was walking home one evening and noticed a cool light fixture glowing in the window of an apartment building. Stopping to admire it, I glanced past it and recognized the diptych painting (shown above). I *squee*d realizing that an ApartmentTherapy home was located just around the corner from me!

I got those a few years ago when I was still in architecture school, and although they aren't perfect reproductions like another reader pointed out, they're pretty fun little tokens of our favorite buildings.

Love the texture and hidden message in the headboard. I'm not a fan of seeing the words "family" or "live laugh love" written out so literally in rooms, and putting up a message in braille is a great way to say it without being so obvious.

Also, love the improvements to the rest of the room that you tackled!

He's so adorable!!!!

I don't think the offended people are wrong, but I would have to say that I am not offended by something like this.

I am very confused and undecided on where I stand on the theory of cultural appropriation. So many design decisions are rooted in culture and/or tradition, you really have to take things on a case by case basis.

It is important that if someone decorates with something, such as a dreamcatcher, that they know where it came from and what it means. I think that if someone displays and appreciates an artifact with the understanding of what it means, it's ok. But hey, that's just one opinion.

Yikes there is a lot of stone-throwing in this post isn't there!

There's a lot of misinformation out there on both sides. Despite any possible animal cruelty claims, I have to say I love my cowhide rug. I lucked out and got a sale on mine, so it ended up not being any more than I planned to spend on a threaded rug. The durability really makes it worth the money, plus it's the perfect little bit of fabulous that really cozies up my bedroom!

This is a fantastic transformation! Love the idea of using swatches of cow hide in that way. My mother surprised me with a cow hide earlier this year to warm up my bedroom floor, and although I was initially creeped out by it, I now can't imagine my space without it!

Late to the party here - but reading all these comments makes me so dismayed about my apartment search in San Francisco!

Previously paid in Los Angeles...

$2400 for a 2bed 2bath (in South Central)
$1600 for a 1bed 1bath (also South Central)
$1760 for a 2bed 2bath (in Downtown)

The last place was the BEST deal I'll probably ever find. It was brand new, had a w&d in unit, 2 gated parking spots, was in a private townhouse right next to a shared pool and gym. Only moved since I was leaving the city!

Ick. More and more LEED gets associated with ugly.

LEED is a great way to get people invested in sustainability and is a good guideline for buildings. But I do think that people should be less invested in getting the superficial achievement of LEED status.