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Unlike traditional desk lamps, the BenQ ScreenBar Plus clips to the top of your monitor to illuminate your workspace while freeing up surface area. Its position cuts down on screen glare, while an ambient light sensor automatically adjusts output to optimal brightness, and a dial allows you to manually fine-tune color temperature.
This Blue Dot Paramount 95” sofa is covered in Stanford Ceramic fabric with stainless steel legs. A larger chaise-style version of the sofa is opposite it, with a Feather Collection Drum Coffee Table from Anthropologie between them and an Eames Lounge Chair overlooked by a Restoration Hardware Arc floor lamp round out the space in this Pacific Heights home.
Halfway through a pregnancy isn’t exactly the ideal time to buy a house. So after spending months scouting San Francisco’s Victorians and turnkey cookie-cutters—and almost defecting to the East Bay—Lorena Siminovich and Esteban Kerner decided to put the hunt on hold until after their baby was born. But then one afternoon Kerner, a design director with Old Navy, logged on to Craigslist on a whim. He saw a below-market listing for a single-family home in Noe Valley, their neighborhood of choice.
With crumbly brick cladding, peeling rust-brown paint, and rotting garage doors, the house lacked curb appeal. But the Argentine couple was drawn to the interior. "It was amazing and strange at the same time," says Kerner of the 1,485-square-foot, multilevel, midcentury maze. "Mind-boggling," adds Siminovich. "It was just a knot of doors and a series of insane stairs to nowhere."
On one side of the house, a white central staircase leads to a split-level landing the Robertsons call "the reading room." "We needed a place to hang out and for the kids to read," explains owner Vivi Nguyen-Robertson. Awaiting the birth of the couple's son, she relaxes in a built-in reading nook in the library.










