Location:
San Francisco, CA
The cottage has amazing light. As part of the renovation they cut away a portion of the roof and upper floor in the center of the house. It creates a light shaft that completely changed the mood in the house. The structure has an open layout and beautiful stone wall that is shared between the staircase and the modern kitchen. We love the details and wood finishes.
To see more photos check out the Feldman Architecture website.
Images: Feldman Architecture
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I want that dining room table!!
It's a nice house, but couldn't they have just built a new house and left the 1860s one for someone who would appreciate it for what it was?
its great.
I agree with Maria- in any other context I would really enjoy this remodel, but the inside of this house now looks pretty much like any other dime-a-dozen loft spaces and midcentury redos. The rustic touches are quite nice, but overall it seems like such a waste to destroy that much history to make the place so bland, rather than preserving a rare space.
this is close to my dream house.Love this kind of architecture
The existing house at the start of this project had been neglected for years. A series of unfinished 'projects' had left many of the walls stripped of plaster exposing the raw framing. What was there in terms of kitchen and bathroom were neglected and barely functioning remnants of a bad 70's effort. The house was almost condemned at one point. So we either had to rebuild new to look like the old original or try to infuse some modernity into the old. Obviously we did the later.
You can see some pictures of the original interior at www.feldmanarchitecture.com