The last few months my partner and I have been making a concerted effort to add artwork to our space. After months of work on all the other details, we’re ready to cover some of the white walls. Here’s a piece we recently acquired from artist Mike Kimball.
Horizon Line by Mike Kimball
…is about to be transformed! (And the dining room, an upstairs bathroom, and the master bedroom!).
We’re working out details now with the structural engineer to take down the wall between the kitchen and dining room top open everything.
More to come!
One of the special design elements on the 15th Street project was to incorporate lights in the cabinetry above the vanity. It looked wonderful on the 3D renderings and the client loved it, but it was quite a challenge to design the cabinet to accommodate the functionality the clients wanted as well as the LEDs.
The other major challenge was to find an appropriate translucent material. I had always envisioned a resin panel with an organic material embedded in it. As it turns out, as lovely as the eco-panels are, they are truly quite expensive! The client, on the other hand, had always envisioned onyx, which we also thought would be cost prohibitive. Happily my clients found a slab that could be used for not only the light panels, but the counter top as well. To finish the look we also added the onyx to the niches in the shower.
The bathroom is coming together and all that’s left is to have the mirror installed. Here’s a peak at how the light panels turned out – and we couldn’t be more pleased!
Big news at 15th Street – the tile installation has begun! The clients wanted a very traditional look to go along with the rest of the flat. To that end I found a wainscoting-like tile and paired it with a traditional 3×6 subway tile. To accent the design we used a hand-carved ivy vine framed with simple mouldings that relate back to the extensive wood trim throughout the residence. The floor, in Crema Marfil (12×12 and 1″ hexagons) is already installed and looks great.
Can’t wait to see it all come together!
I’m so excited about the palette I’ve pulled together for this Master Bedroom – blue, taupe, silver, brown and beige. While the colors on screen hardly do it justice, I thought it was fun to see it all together. Photos to come when everything is installed.
I’m helping on a small landscape project in the courtyard of an amazing 1965 William Wurster property in Pacific Heights. Because the courtyard is between the private entrance and the residence, it really feels like a room.
In addition to preparing the drawings for the landscape designer, I’m searching for fabrics to recover the furniture to bring some more color to the courtyard. Here are a few of the fabrics I’ve found.
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The demo has begun on 15th Street – and the clients are thrilled with the expanded space and ceiling raised to its original height. Messy but fun!
15th Street Demo 1 
15th Street Demo 2
I’ve been playing with some new rendering software – I created the original of this image in Sketchup and voila, a much more photorealistic image!
Before 
After
Excellent recap from the good people at Houzz. I think that finding the unexpected should be at the top of the list!
This is a great project! It’s a bathroom that has the old pink and blue tile – and even a pink bathtub and sink. I’m sure the toilet was once pink, but the clients (wisely) replaced that with a new model a year or two ago.
We’re claiming about 2′ from a closet in the adjacent room to accommodate the new layout – and for the effort my clients will be getting a huge shower as well as a double vanity.
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