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)
Ohh! I adore this house! Especially the garage door type doors outside, and the blue black exterior!! omgosh!! It's so deep and moody outside and so fresh and clean inside! LOVE IT!
i gotta stop reading your rss-feed.makes me pity myself and my place in comparison to these places...
My kids could bathe in that bathroom sink, just stunning. Happy weekend!
yes! badass!
Colour rich and Beautiful!
Love the entry way/ foyer!
Gorgeous house!!
Beautiful indeed. But how many people have that kind of money for a starter house and then the renovation. A million for the house and then "just under $500,000" for the renovation?
As much as I love design and renovating, I think I'd take my daughter and my husband on a round the world tour for $500,000.
A big house with a big personality, love all the rooms.
Love the inside. The outside is too dark for me.
I covet that kitchen! And those giant garage door things in the office are a stroke of absolute genius.
ok, you're kidding right? how amazing is that house? i am adding it to my dream house list for sure :)
This is all one house? Amazing.
The house is just stunning!! Love the blues... amazing!! The kitchen is gorgeous as well... OOOHHH.. I'm going to look at it again!
Love this!! I love the foyer and how the detail extends into that fabulous kitchen! Great House!
I walk by this place almost everyday and it looks great, but damn... this is about a 2 Million dollar piece of property, not taking into consideration the half million in renovations.
I'm the same age as these guys... what have I been doing wrong?
seriously darrell. WHAT have i been doin wrong?
i think about that all the time! (especially when i see homes this fixed up!) THAT place is AMAZING.
Who lives here and will they trade with me?! Stunning. amazing. perfection!
I LOVED this in the Times yesterday, but it makes me wonder: does skateboarding pay that well?
Beautiful place!
OMG - this is PERFECT - you're right every photo going into the inspiration file - I just wish the outside was a little more colorful...
No way. No way did my dream house literally just land in front of my face.
I. Die.
oh it is absolutely a dream house. love it.
love, love, love.
this is cool in every way!!
Glad I'm not the only one pondering the $$ question!
That aside, I am blown away by the personality in this home. Have been flicking through the photos over and over, just reeling.
Beautiful.
But I preferred the *black* toilet paper in the NYT photo ... cheeky.
This place is gorgeous! I will have to borrow these images from your site sometime (=