Grand Victorian manors, humble workers cottages, storybook dwellings in the hills… storied homes deserve thoughtful partners.
Alongside my real estate business, I’ve co-founded a nimble design studio specializing in the rehabilitation of historic properties.
San Francisco’s historic homes are made up of more than just the façades. We want to contribute to keeping this city’s iconic identity intact, which means that we need to protect, repair, and preserve more than just the outside walls.
We want future generations to be able to experience that magic feeling we get when we walk into an old home that’s seen generations of San Franciscans — a solid feeling, and a sense that we’re all a part of a larger story. We want them to be fortunate enough to live in a storied home, in a storied city.
We try to honor the past and San Francisco's unique history while helping create comfortably modern homes out of buildings from the 1800s to the 1940s.
Preserving San Francisco’s Unique History.
That’s not to say we’re completely rooted in the past. We care an incredible amount about the environment, and also enjoy living a modern lifestyle filled with the conveniences of modern technology.
And… the greenest thing we can all do when renovating a home is to work with what’s already there. San Francisco’s historic homes have been through generations already and have held up all that time. This is telling of the materials in use. The craftsmanship and quality of these homes are already top notch. From the plaster walls to the hardwood floors and windows, they were built to last (and have!).
We believe that “gut renovations” should not be the only way to modernize and that thoughtful approaches for handling these superior materials should be one of the first considerations when updating a historic home. Removing them not only erases history, but it's just not sustainable to throw out incredible built-ins, larger than life trim pieces, noise reducing and temperature regulating plaster, and historic wood floors that could be refinished all in favor of “new”, especially when the new has often been proven inferior.
