The Past Meets A Colorful Present In A San Francisco Tudor
ASPIRE DESIGN & HOME magazine
TIMELESS TUDOR: A HISTORIC REVIVAL
It’s a time-honored adage that every home tells a story. For a couple intent on raising their young family in a setting rich with both history and happiness, that adage came alive through a thoughtful balance of preservation, palette and personality. The idea was to restore and enhance the defining architectural details and millwork that made their new home special, while ushering it into the today with a joyous burst of color and creativity.
“The home’s original stylistic direction was this storybook Germanic Tudor pastiche,” recalls interior designer Leo Cesareo. “That’s what we leaned into, but with a modern, maximalist, sort of whimsical twist.”
As the home is north facing and has a tendency to be dark, the intention was to bring in color and light and to open the home up as much as possible, while still maintaining separate rooms. Among the major structural changes were the repositioning of the kitchen from its central placement to the rear of the home, where light is abundant, and the addition of an entire story at the basement level.
“They wanted that separation of spaces and to preserve the architectural details of the interior. We were building upon and interpreting the existing details to integrate them into the new spaces so that the home felt seamless.”-Keith Kirley
