Project: SF Victorian

Location: San Francisco, CA

This gut renovation was a year-long experiment in contrasts. The front of the house was converted into a studio and office, with original trim and woodwork stripped back to white, as much preserved as possible. At the rear, walls came down to create an open-plan kitchen, dining room, and living area — loose and casual where the office is structured and precise. Connecting the two is a 40-foot corridor that functions almost like a mood shift: walk from one end to the other and you feel the house change around you.

Throughout, the design plays with opposites — light against dark, vintage against modern, old-world craft against clean contemporary lines. Black-stained original hardwood floors run beneath stark white walls. A Saarinen table is surrounded by century-old chairs. The powder room, papered in a Hunt Slonem bunny sketch, breaks entirely from the rest of the house with a note of pure whimsy.

Featured in Domino Magazine.

Team: Nicole Franzen/Photography