Jennifer Robin balances magnificence and enthusiasm in San Francisco house

Californian studio Jennifer Robin Interiors has used color, texture and items to create a comfortable city house for shoppers who previously lived in Napa Valley.

The San Francisco dwelling was designed for a retired couple who had been transitioning to metropolis life after residing in a single-family dwelling in California’s wine nation.

The life-style change was prompted by their want to downsize and dedicate extra time to leisure actions.

“Eating, theatre, travelling and entertaining had been changing into a precedence over sustaining a big dwelling and property,” stated Jennifer Robin Interiors, a Marin County studio led by designer Jennifer Robin Macdonald.

The unit occupies a nine-storey constructing within the metropolis’s Pacific Heights district. The shoppers wished an area that blended refinement with cosiness, and likewise provided cheerful moments that might assist counter San Francisco’s foggy days.

Massive home windows, metropolis views and a contemporary sensibility all performed into the design course of. Macdonald stated she aimed to “reimagine what a high-end, metropolis house could possibly be”.

“The purpose was to create a house that did not really feel too formal or contrived – one which discovered the proper steadiness between sophistication, consolation and the sudden,” she advised Dezeen.

The house introduced some challenges, comparable to restricted house and odd dimensions. Within the public areas, an abundance of huge home windows minimised the usable wall house and likewise created a “fishbowl impact”.

Macdonald got here up with a number of intelligent options to those points.

For the one clean wall within the room, she used gray plaster with a textured look, which serves as a distinction to the light-toned surfaces.

Affixed to the wall is a horizontal, oak shelving unit with a sliding door that conceals a tv. The door has a mirror, which helps the pretty compact room really feel extra expansive.

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The lounge is fitted with a up to date white sofa and a curved couch wrapped in yellow velvet. The custom-designed couch extends right into a floor-to-ceiling bay window, growing seating house.

It’s one in all a number of items that was finessed so as to maximise each inch throughout the house.

The lounge additionally encompasses a woven rug, a facet desk by Konekt, a maple espresso desk and a pair of inexperienced, wedge-shaped poufs. Home windows are lined with sheer drapes that present privateness whereas including a mushy contact to the house.

Within the eating space, the designer positioned a spherical, sculptural desk with extensions that make it appropriate for dinner events. Suspended above is a cloud-shaped lighting fixture by Equipment.

The geometry of the room’s home windows – notably the angular bay window – knowledgeable the stitching sample used for the eating room chairs.

Equally, within the kitchen, pendants by Workstead are supposed to reference the glazed apertures. Chunky stools with rope seats assist “tone down the formality of the house”.

The master suite encompasses a comparable interaction of magnificence and playfulness.

Conceived as a “sanctuary from metropolis life”, the sleeping space encompasses a mattress with a wood-and-velvet headboard and built-in nightstands. The mattress’s design takes cues from a close-by constructing.

“The geometric shapes of the mattress had been derived from the window patterns of a neighbouring hospital, however softened and beautified with velvet, white oak and organic-shaped studying lights,” stated Macdonald.

The main bedroom additionally options an alpaca/wool rug, a picket dresser and a rounded yellow bench by LA designer Natasha Baradaran.

In a visitor suite, the staff positioned a mattress with a velvet headboard in deep blue, a spherical facet desk and a picket desk topped with glass. Inexperienced, yellow and orange accents assist enliven the house.

The house additionally options an workplace that doubles as a media room. Wallpaper impressed by tiles within the London Underground was chosen for one wall, including a way of power and motion.

Just like different components within the dwelling, the wallpaper is supposed to “complement the shapes of the home windows and cityscape”.

Different dwellings in San Francisco embrace a renovated home by Jamie Bush that options an eclectic array of furnishings, a slender Victorian dwelling that was overhauled by Edmonds + Lee, and a minimalist house by Garcia Tamjidi with built-in cabinetry that’s hardly noticeable.

Pictures is by John Merkl.

Product credit:

Lighting: Equipment, Workstead, Gentner Design
White couch: Bassam Fellows and Coup de État
TV cupboard: Aaron Silverstein
Espresso desk: Statsky Design
Eating desk: Randolph & Hein
Eating chairs and material material: Holly Hunt
Bar stools: Phloem Studio
Rugs: Rosemary Hallgarten, Erden
Wallpaper: Smink Issues