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Douglass
Transitional Dining Room, San Francisco
A typical post-1906 Noe Valley house is simultaneously restored, expanded and redesigned to keep what works and rethink what doesn’t. The front façade, is scraped and painted a crisp monochrome white—it worked. The new asymmetrical gabled rear addition takes the place of a windowless dead end box that didn’t. A “Great kitchen”, open yet formally defined living and dining rooms, a generous master suite, and kid’s rooms with nooks and crannies, all make for a newly designed house that straddles old and new.
Structural Engineer: Gregory Paul Wallace SE
General Contractor: Cardea Building Co.
Photographer: Open Homes Photography
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