Interiors

The home's primary suite sits on the ground floor of the house and open to a private garden via large pocket doors. The blue wall is venetian plaster in a matte Cerulean blue finish. In this room, the kintsugi detail marks a crack at the room's entrance.

The ground floor features a few of the home's main components: walnut, cement, and terrazzo. It's lit from a skylight above, where the home's three levels are all joined.

In the office, the same terrazzo floor tiles create continuity.

The terrazzo is "Italian Black

"We designed the space for relaxation,

Architect Ryan Leidner reimagined this 2,500-square-foot home in San Francisco.

The red niche is the most vibrant space in the home. Cibic says, “I like to spend time in these small little intimate spaces. It’s like one piece of furniture somehow.”

Frameless bedroom windows extend beyond the floor and ceiling. "Since it's such a small house, it was really important to have this connection between the interior and exterior," says the couple.

The architects did not want "the operating theater" of can lights, so Ernesto designed a custom fixture consisting of a simple steel plate that disguises "cheap can lights," seen here in the upper hallway. "It looks like a $1,500 fixture, but it's like $300," he says.

The living room sits at the rear of the house, connected to the garden. "Even though it's a very small house, we wanted the living room to be very generous," says the couple. "This room is the life of the house."

The goal for the first floor was to embrace the shade provided by the mature trees, create a rich material moment, and incorporate all of the storage that the family would need.

The interior palette includes white oak cabinetry, oak paneling, and rustic ebony-stained oak.

The cabinetry on this side of the kitchen is painted Farrow & Ball's "Pea Flower Tea.

This formerly beige Brooklyn home now relishes in a range of blues, greens, and orangey-reds, with terrazzo and tile to spare.

“A lot of renovations today have so much white and gray, and we wanted to run away from that,” says São Paulo native Joyce Prestes. “We really wanted color.”

The main living room features 23’ high ceilings and two fireplaces framed by timbers taken from the Hudson Valley. Floor-to-ceiling windows ensure ample sunlight fills each of the three levels.