Many of you have probably already seen the new House Beautiful, which hit shelves just a few days ago. On the cover, a peek at a living room designed by Mark D. Sikes for a young San Francisco couple's vacation home in Santa Barbara (Montecito). I followed this install somewhat intensely when it happened back in May of 2017, and figured it was going to be published when a few of the pictures from the install came down.

This was the picture that mysteriously vanished from Instagram after House Beautiful agreed to cover the house. It popped back online as soon as the magazine hit shelves. It shows Mark, and his design team sitting on the large sofa. I thought to myself I had seen the space before, but couldn't place it. Afterall, how many houses could have a window like this one" Thousands" Maybe I was wrong.
Then I opened the magazine:

And it started to look even more familiar. I had seen this room. I'd seen that fireplace, those windows - there couldn't be that many houses that looked that similar, could there" The answer is no.

It'd been featured before. In Coastal Living, back in 2015. In fact, the wealthy San Francisco couple has several homes, and nearly all of them at one point or another have been featured in shelter magazines. This Montecito vacation home was first designed by Melissa Warner Rothblum of Massucco Warner Miller. The colorful home underwent a huge transformation after the couple purchased it in 2011.

When they bought it, the exte...