Scott Donnellan from Roost home furnishings poses in the San Francisco Chronicle studio in San Francisco, Calif. on Thursday, July 30, 2009. Photo by Kat Wade / Special to the Chronicle.

Home design has met with a bit of fowl play. And the culprit is pecking its way onto our welcome mats, into our living rooms, onto our tabletops and into our gardens. Animals and insects take turns… ...