Collection by Kate Santos
San Francisco Home Renovations
The City by the Bay is known for its diverse mix of Victorian and modern architecture. Maintaining these aesthetics, here are just a few San Francisco home renovations.
Willmer completely redesigned and relandscaped the backyard. "Houses in the early 1900s were built with a strong presence to the street but the back was totally forgotten," she says. Now, Willmer admits, the house is almost more oriented toward the south-facing garden than the street, but it's a space in which she had more design freedom and that the family is able to enjoy to its fullest.
Visit the
American Institute of Architects San Francisco Chapter website to purchase tickets to the see the Eller's Park Street Residence the Saturday, September 12 home tour (and more homes on the Sunday, September 13 tour) as part of the month-long Architecture and the City Festival.
Photo by
Ken Gutmaker
Before founding atelier KS in the fall of 2008, Franz and Pare-Mayer both worked for accomplished San Francisco architects: Franz for Cary Bernstein and Pare-Mayer for Craig Steely. The residents of this home contacted Steely to complete the renovation but when he was unable to accept the project, he put them in touch with the husband-wife design team.