My dream home
Fri, 24 Apr 2009Patrick Flynn is a designer/project manager at envelopeA+D, an architecture and design firm based in Oakland, California and he emailed us thinking we'd be interested in a project the firm recently completed (it was featured in the NY Times yesterday). Interested??? I almost passed out when I saw the photos. This home is so unbelieveably cool and funky and creative and plucked right out of my dreams. I am completely smitten with it. The Victorian duplex is located in San Francisco, and is owned by Claire Bigbie (an interior designer who now designs for the firm) and her skateboarder boyfriend Jay Shapiro. It was renovated to house a creative studio for Claire on the main floor and the living quarters upstairs. I adore absolutely everything about this home, including the incredible blue-black exterior (used to downplay the Victorian embellishments). Thanks so much Patrick for sharing this with us! Every photo below is going in my inspiration folder, and I imagine in many of our readers' folders too.
Reader Comments (42)
We can but dream. The renovation is more than my house budget :)
I am going to use this house for inspiration when doing renovations on our new home. It's gorgeous and very well done. WOW!
i would give LIMBS to be able to call this place home. LIMBS. plural.
Wow, this house is stunning! I want to live there too!
Beautiful home and these photos are much nicer than the NYT pics, I think. You really see what they've done.
My husband and I wondered about the $$$,too. Makes me think I should have been skateboarding instead of going to grad school!
But hats off to anyone so young who can afford such nice surroundings. I'd love to know how they did it so that I can tell my 17-year-old!
to the folks wondering about the $$$ angle, It's called wealthy parents. Not judging that negatively, Claire is a very talented and hard working person, but it kind of sucks that the article makes it seem like that level of house is "normal" for people that young.
Simply beautiful!! I think the kitchen is my favorite...and the artwork...and the exterior colors...and..and..and...just about everything.
Hello... please excuse me as I lift my jaw from the floor and mop up the drool.
Wow, just discovered this blog and this is by far my favorite post so far! Love the exterior and interior! They are all going into my inspiration folder too :))
jess s//
love it all, but especially the kitchen
nice themed rooms... i love the red washroom... very nice touch...
good post
Love this house
Wouldn't mind living here at all
Anyone know where you could get a table like the one in the creative space? the one with A-legs?
TP, I don't know where that table came from but Ikea sells some A frame legs that you could use to make one yourself.
I loved the idea of thinking up one's dream home, before ever finding it in reality. In fact you went one step further and found a place that ticks some/all of your boxes. Well done!
I have created a link to your post, many thanks
Hels
Art and Architecture, mainly
This house is so try-hard modern and cliché. The fact that it is a Victorian masquerading as contemporary makes it even worse. In ten years, when "modern" has a new look, this brand of modern will look dated.(it already does). I don't think fans of contemporary or Victorian will appreciate this house if/when the owners decide to sell.