In 2011, Mr. Heining, 39, got married, and he now shares the apartment with his wife, who wants to redesign the guest bathroom with the Playboy walls.

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In 2010, Nicole Hollis, a San Francisco interior designer, designed a two-bedroom apartment for a young emergency-room doctor, Travis Heining, with cheeky nods to bachelor-pad tropes including hiring an artist to decoupage a powder room with vintage Playboy magazine covers from the '60s and '70s.

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