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The creativity and competition behind blogs and do-it-yourself publishers have produced a glut of elevated, thoughtful, sophisticated projects for modern homemakers, gift givers, parents and kids… https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ce42c8703fba40001eb0f4a/t/5ebb74213f8d853f2157b044/1589524745859/chantal_lamers_book_review_make_it_yours.jpg Book Reviews - DIY PICNIC BLANKET Known for her whimsical gift sets and illustrated paper goods, Christine Schmidt of San Francisco’s Yellow Owl Workshop also excels at turning everyday objects into works of art… https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ce42c8703fba40001eb0f4a/t/5ebb76eae164116b100bb982/1589524745863/chantal_lamers_book_review_paper_flowers.jpg Book Reviews - FAUX-FLOWER MASTER Tiffanie Turner’s paper blooms demand a double take. From a peony’s wispy stamen to a clenched gathering of ombré petals at the center of a dahlia, her intricate creations are nothing short of magical… https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ce42c8703fba40001eb0f4a/t/5ebc1828922e34644f280502/1589524745882/chantal_lamers_book_review_petit.jpg Book Reviews - PLAYFUL, CRAFTY, MODERN Lorena Siminovich designs eco-chic toys, decor and games with a midcentury bend for her children’s line, Petit Collage. So when she and her husband were on the brink of outgrowing their condo with the impending birth of their daughter, Matilda, they didn’t hesitate after popping in on a ’50s fixer in San Francisco that was filled with possibilities… https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ce42c8703fba40001eb0f4a/t/5ebb7955619e3f40d9d6b7cd/1589524745866/chantal_lamers_book_review_design_mom.jpg Book Reviews - MOTHERLY DESIGN Oakland mother of six Gabrielle Blair has been sharing hard-earned tips for living with kids since she launched her blog Design Mom almost nine years ago… https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ce42c8703fba40001eb0f4a/t/5ebc1932c4cf885f52010d74/1589524745885/chantal_lamers_book_review_remodelista.jpg Book Reviews - FEILD GUIDE FOR HOME RENOVATORS When Julie Carlson set out to remodel her Mill Valley home in 2006, inspiration was scarce. Shelter magazines were folding and there were but a handful of design blogs on the Internet. 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Inside her 1910 farmhouse in California’s Santa Cruz Mountains, Suna Lock, owner of Stripe Design Group and Stripe shops, turns a blank space on its head by dodging conventional sets of framed images in favor of easy-to-source, 3-D gatherings that don’t break the bank… https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ce42c8703fba40001eb0f4a/t/5fa95a8844651c56020d1345/1604934288233/chantal_lamers_home_and_design_family_of_5.jpg Home + Design - This Family of Five’s Library-Inspired Home Office Does Triple Duty When Becca Lloyd decided it was time to revamp a spare bedroom into an office and craft space at her family’s Salt Lake City home last year, the art history instructor knew she wanted to draw upon her memories of shelving books at Yale’s Beinecke Library. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ce42c8703fba40001eb0f4a/t/5f0cf1a19716383665b7d9ea/1604934223910/chantal_lamers_home_and_design_new_clean_living.jpg Home + Design - THE NEW CLEAN LIVING Today’s method of organization isn’t about acquiring bins and baskets to corral accumulations. In their first book, New Minimalism: Decluttering and Design for Sustainable, Intentional Living, Kyle Quilici and Cary Fortinbegin with a guide to extreme spring cleaning and continue with rules for thoughtful acquisitions… https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ce42c8703fba40001eb0f4a/t/5f0cf952bf5bbd4148af0e4a/1594685811719/chantal_lamers_home_and_design_the_deep_end.jpg Home + Design - THE DEEP END Our vote for makeover hue of the moment: matte black. The bold design choice is also surprisingly versatile, finding a range of expression in elements from furniture to faucets… https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ce42c8703fba40001eb0f4a/t/5f0cf5440e7f6263b84695ef/1594684767063/chantal_lamers_home_and_design_backyard_blockbuster.jpg Home + Design - backyard blockbuster There’s no better time than an early summer evening to ditch the sofa in favor of an outdoor-movie night. To re-create a bit of that drive-in-theater magic on your lawn, start with some portable tech, like LG’s PH550 Mini-beam LED Projector… https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ce42c8703fba40001eb0f4a/t/5f057a2af59328177f18aea6/1604935379142/ Home + Design - THE FUTURE IS HERE If you’re feeling outsmarted by smarthome technology these days, you’re not alone. While the Internet of Things is intended to simplify life, the vast number of options can be intimidating. 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But 11-time world champion Kelly Slater had flipped the small town of Lemoore in California’s King County—best known for producing crops such as grapes and almonds—into the most unexpected destination for one of the West’s most iconic sports. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ce42c8703fba40001eb0f4a/t/5f0cd8b0147fc010ab805f1e/1604934213944/chantal_lamers_home_and_design_designers_on_a_roll.jpg Home + Design - DESIGNERS ON A ROLL Encompassing two stories and some 8,000 square feet, the Waterworks Kitchen showroom debuts this month in San Francisco’s Design District. 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I tell stories of emerging designers and makers, lifestyle influencers and more. As the former Home Editor of Sunset Magazine, I also managed the magazine’s ground-up Idea Houses in Berkeley and Los Gatos as well as a Smart Home Cottage renovation in Sonoma. I’ve also organized the magazine’s influencer events and initiatives. I was a news, features and infographics reporter at the Orange County Register for eight years and later I spent more than five years as a contributing writer and columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle’s Home & Garden section. I was also an editor at the online publication Red Tricycle. I cover design and travel, marketplace, health and wellness, consumer news as well as parenting and zero-waste topics. I’m currently based in the San Francisco Bay Area and accepting freelance writing and editing assignments covering home, garden, lifestyle and marketplace. I’m available for other creative consulting services too, including styling, catalog copywriting, content strategy and social media consulting. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ce42c8703fba40001eb0f4a/t/5ebeb7a200370f5a716a5a9a/1589557343796/chantal_lamers_lifestyle_cover.jpg About https://www.chantallamers.com/infographics daily 0.75 2020-07-17 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ce42c8703fba40001eb0f4a/t/5ebdf9012c54273a02efa212/1589508396056/chantal_lamers_infographic_wine_country.jpg Infographics - SEASONS IN CALIFORNIA’S WINE COUNTRY No matter when you visit the vineyards of Napa and Sonoma valleys, each season brings its own charms and reveals a landscape tied to the vine’s life cycle… https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ce42c8703fba40001eb0f4a/t/5ebde3885afd0a5429774920/1595029266183/chantal_lamers_infographic_fire_stress_test.jpg Infographics - FIREFIGHTING FITNESS The Orange County Fire Authority put more than 100 firefighters through a stress and hydration drill to understand the physiological effects of the job… https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ce42c8703fba40001eb0f4a/t/5ebde2a513dea97f3c4cf1c9/1589508515705/chantal_lamers_infographic_acoustics.jpg Infographics - FINE TUNING The new Renée and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall was designed with an integrated adjustable acoustic system. Acousticians are in the process of experimenting with the various components, including a three-section, sound-reflecting canopy, reverberation chambers and acoustical curtains… https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ce42c8703fba40001eb0f4a/t/5ebdf75751dadb2dcdb5bc16/1589507988258/chantal_lamers_infographic_san_andreas.jpg Infographics - TOURING THE MIGHTY SAN ANDREAS FAULT A hundred years ago, the San Francisco quake gave birth to the modern study of earthquakes and led to the discovery of the San Andreas fault. But temblors haven’t simply shaped California’s landscape, they have affected its culture as well… https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ce42c8703fba40001eb0f4a/t/5ebdefa301f8bc0bfaea36d0/1589508507507/chantal_lamers_infographic_ready_to_float.jpg Infographics - READY TO FLOAT Rain or shine, the 117th Tournament of Roses Parade is set to kick off at 8 a.m. Monday. 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Today, the focus is on rebuilding - rushing to stabilize the slope before winter rains and grading sites where homes were razed… https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ce42c8703fba40001eb0f4a/t/5ebdf4c6abcbb575760dcce9/1589507454505/chantal_lamers_infographic_paris.jpg Infographics - VISITING IN THE WINTER: PARIS If you want to experience a different side of Parisian life, forgo visiting in the warm summer months and venture to the City of Lights in the winter. Not only is it less crowded, but you can get hotel and flight packages at a steal, which means more cash to shell out at chic boutiques like Dior, Chanel and Louis Vuitton… https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ce42c8703fba40001eb0f4a/t/5ebeb02c5807503aff38e7bd/1589555248965/chantal_lamers_infographic_cover.jpg Infographics https://www.chantallamers.com/home-tours daily 0.75 2020-11-09 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ce42c8703fba40001eb0f4a/t/5f0d29976a8632767c1e5fe1/1596651092517/chantal_lamers_home_tour_next_level_design.jpg Home Tours - NEXT-LEVEL DESIGN History plays its part inside Sunset’s latest Idea House, but the future is calling… https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ce42c8703fba40001eb0f4a/t/5f0d2ed8a3148f0ff2ac84b1/1595024954540/chantal_lamers_home_and_design_coloring_outside_the_lines.jpg Home Tours - COLORING OUTSIDE THE LINES For as long as Eva Jorgensen can remember, her mother regaled her childhood stories from France. 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SHOP OWNER TO ESCAPE THE DESERT “I’d been flirting with the desert for the past four or five years and slowly falling in love with it,” recalls Denise Portmans, who co-owns the Santa Monica-based Merchant Modern Shop and Gallery with her daughter Sara Marlowe Hall… https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ce42c8703fba40001eb0f4a/t/5f0d35e694be7a33f90292da/1596650807515/chantal_lamers_home_and_design_craftsman_cool.jpg Home Tours - Craftsman Cool Innovation is synonymous with Silicon Valley, so when it came to building Sunset’s Idea House in the land of start-ups, we know the home had to channel both the region’s creative boldness and its laid-back culture… https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ce42c8703fba40001eb0f4a/t/5f0d1dfa0e7f6263b84c91a8/1594695188594/chantal_lamers_home_and_design_a_revival.jpg Home Tours - A REVIVAL When a pair of fun-loving designers take on a classic cabin in the woods, the result is a new icon in the making… https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ce42c8703fba40001eb0f4a/t/5fa963fed9418b4912cb4115/1604936770677/chantal_lamers_home_tour_storybook_beginnings.jpg Home Tours - A STORYBOOK BEGINNING In Los Angelos, a young family enlists ETC.etera cofounders (and best friends) Sally Breer and Jake Rodehuth-Harrison to reveal the next chapter of their storied 1924 light-filled Silver Lake Tudor-style bungalow. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ce42c8703fba40001eb0f4a/t/5f0d23b1ea043118c96cd7ad/1596651087013/chantal_lamers_home_and_design_happy_together.jpg Home Tours - HAPPY TOGETHER A pair of family fishing cabins in the Northwest uses design to evoke a sense of heritage and soul… https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ce42c8703fba40001eb0f4a/t/5f0d174be892147e149a103f/1596651062726/chantal_lamers_home_tour_making_waves.jpg Home Tours - MAKING WAVES In 2014, Birgit and Raul Sfat were a year into the lease of a rental cottage in San Francisco’s Noe Valley when they learned of the owner’s plans to sell the property… https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ce42c8703fba40001eb0f4a/t/5f0d1b930f26b73045ce7cc0/1596651068689/chantal_lamers_home_tour_flip_the_script.jpg Home Tours - FLIP THE SCRIPT An out-of-the-box designer gives a lackluster beach cottage a good dose of grown-up surf style… https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ce42c8703fba40001eb0f4a/t/5f0d310867420b67f66d2c88/1596651081936/chantal_lamers_home_and_design_the_mix_master.jpg Home Tours - THE MIX MASTER Of all the design trends to take over Pinterest, white subway tiles may baffle Mary Rudolph most. “I know they’re a budget solution,” she says, “but there are so many better choices out there”… https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ce42c8703fba40001eb0f4a/t/5f0d0615ef4364521c931e9e/1604936851958/chantal_lamers_home_and_design_a-frame.jpg Home Tours - CABIN FEVER A Bay Area designer strips back an A-frame to create a moody hideaway tucked among the evergreens… https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ce42c8703fba40001eb0f4a/t/5ebeb013a1d0ac329e99753d/1589555222443/chantal_lamers_home_tour_cover.jpg Home Tours https://www.chantallamers.com/travel daily 0.75 2020-11-09 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ce42c8703fba40001eb0f4a/t/5f0e96904b2cad2a6b5ccd44/1594791604022/chantal_lamers_travel_vintage_in_the_oc.jpg Travel - VINTAGE IN THE O.C. 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