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A San Francisco home by ballonSTUDIO employs a warm beige palette across all four flours.

The large new bathroom includes a shower for two and continuous tile floors.

“We definitely wanted to preserve the character of the home and make sure that it always fits the neighborhood,” says designer Jenny Bassett. To that end, the team kept the front façade intact, only repainting and adding new landscaping. The fireplace in the living room was also retained, so wood is stored in the front yard for easy access.

New concrete pathways, all built by Jake and Antony, are arranged around an artful tool shed, which has a weathered steel wall punched with a pattern from the Faroe Islands in Denmark, where Sigrid is from. “That was a nod to Sigrid’s heritage,” says Bassett. The shed also acts as a privacy screen for the patio below it.

The group continued the weathered steel elements throughout the landscape, designed by friend Catherine Howell, such as in the planter beds at the “afternoon” patio, which faces West.

New folding glass doors connect the downstairs living room to the revamped yard. The floors are concrete and the ceilings are Hemlock.

The team dug down two feet in the basement to add ceiling height and remodel while staying within the footprint of the house. “Without doing an addition, we could more than double the square footage in the house,” says Jake. A concrete bench topped with wood runs sixty-five feet along the perimeter of the room, and serves as a useful bench.

A Blu Dot bed with an Area Home duvet sits atop an Old New House rug. Carine used to work in the rug industry, so flooring tends to be a feature of her designs: “When you’re in the space a rug is a really big element,” she says. “Though not every one fo my clients is as excited about rugs as I am.” The ones used throughout this home are antique, each 50-plus years old — they’ve seen it all, making them less precious and delicate than a new design.

Marble is a beautiful natural material—but one of our industry experts thought it received too much attention in 2022.

Marble, wood, and plaster converge to create a timeless symphony of materials. “Like all of our work, we are interested in using classic, natural materials, but detailing and articulating in a decidedly new and unexpected fashion,” Worrell says.

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Harrison St. House Back House elevations

A view of the newly constructed modern Back House seen from the street. Custom redwood fencing wraps around the home.

“The custom profile painted siding echoes the typical horizontal lap siding seen throughout the neighborhood while playing with scale,” says Ryan. “Also, the extruded white oak window boxes on the new structure give a nod to the more traditional approach to window casings while making them more three dimensional.”

"We used color to highlight different elements and bring a little more attitude to the house,