Noe Valley Renovation
It's rare that in a resident-architect collaboration, the resident picks the more dramatic design scheme than the architect. But the homeowners of this recently renovated San Francisco Victorian, originally built in the early 1900s, "were pretty adventurous," says architect Bassel Samaha, of Samaha + Hart Architecture, the firm he runs with his wife, Heather Hart.
Husband-wife team Barnaby Grist and Ellen Goldberg purchased the house in San Francisco's Noe Valley neighborhood in 2004. Two years later, they approached Samaha and Hart with an ambitious idea: to keep the facade and two rooms inside that flanked the front door true to their early-1900s design but completely renovate the rest. The goal: to create a modern space that would take advantage of the views and enhance opportunities to gather guests at their home. "They wanted what was new to be really different," Samaha says.
Check out this slideshow of the home and the story of the design changes.
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Wow! That transformation of the house's backside in particular is crazy, in a good way. Loved seeing the before/after pics. Dwell should do more of those.
Great project guys, glad you have included before/after to see the level of work which was performed!!!!! mp
Awesome! The corner windows and very cool lightwell stairs is clever. Good thing for me; I have been considering updating my stair well... Thanks for the ideas!!! daniel
I could sit there all day!
looks like cambridge, ma
The Masters of Architecture from beginning of time to perpetuiry will attest to your exquisite design
That's living! That's what I call Home. Excellent Job, Samaha-Hart ! C'est un oeuvre d'art!
What were the less severe options?
Love what they did to open up back, the change to the "bones" of the place is simply amazing! But I'd be worried that the interior design would date this thing in 5 years.
Finally, something SEXY in Dwell!
Esta casa esta excelente, muy buena arquitectura. Por cierto, hubo un pequeño error, Ecorsein es Ecoresin, un producto muy inovador .
Beautiful home! I LOVE the bed in the Master Bedroom. Can you tell us where that is from?
I'd love to know who made the bed as well, it's wonderful.
I also live in Noe Valley. Most of the homes were built in the late 1800 to early 1900. The homes are row houses. this means they are connected at the sides with the typical lot size of 25 by 115 feet. when someone builds an open glass backed home like this you can imagine the impact on your neighbors from all the light flooding out at night and the lack of privacy all those windows create. also you notice the large second story height. that is because this home was orig. Three stories so by code they are allowed three. but they max. Main level height. so building is much larger than before. great views but not so great for those now below much taller home. this is a problem when people rebuild in older areas. the style is great but we never see the house in context to it's neighbors.
@Derek (or anybody) - i'm a bit new to this site/world. When you said, it might be dated in 5 years - what did you mean? What could have been done differently? Are there examples of more "non-dating" designs in previous dwell stories? thanks!
This just breaks my heart. The design and execution are fabulous, but they destroyed a Victorian. If you want a modern looking house, why not start with one without all the history? I live in Noe Valley and more and more people are moving into the neighborhood and gutting the beautiful old Victorians and doing stuff like this. Why not start from scratch somewhere else? Why buy a Victorian if all you are going to do is change it to make it totally unrecognizable?? I just hope it doesn't encourage more people because like I said they did make a beautiful house. I just wish they hadn't used a Victorian as their base.
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