Dubbed the Telegraph Hill Tree House at 468 Filbert, what were originally two units have been rebuilt by Nova Designs+Builds into a 5,440 square foot five-bedroom “single-family” home which now includes “guest quarters” with a full kitchen and media room.
And no, that’s not the guest kitchen above but rather the main kitchen that features a 17 foot ceiling height, a walnut slab breakfast bar, and windows overlooking the garden.
∙ Listing: 468 Filbert (5/5.5) 5,440 sqft- $5,495,000 [MLS]
“widows overlooking the garden.”
For $5.5M, you get actual widows, we’re not talking about those busybody NIMBYs who keep you from building stuff in this city.
[Editor’s Note: Ba-dump-bump! (And since corrected.)]
^^^
Twitching of lace curtains extra, though, I suppose?
anyone know where to get the deck chair on pic 23?
“Originally a 2 unit building, it is designed to allow the owners to have a fully equipped guest quarters and a media room with full kitchen” Yea thats because the city wouldnt allow them to combine the units, same as The hoffman place. really who needs a “guest kitchen”
I’m just happy with the veritable explosion of green in the last few socketsite posts!
Hooray for trees! (and the widows that look down upon them).
this is a very striking house, and overall I love what they’ve done. I especially love the fact that they put as much thought into the back exterior facade as they did in the front.
it has great windows and visual interest. I even appreciate the things in there that I don’t love. (I think the kitchen is just so so).
some of the room seem to have very short ceilings… how tall are they?
overall a property that isn’t for me at all, but one that I think was done very well.
Hope they get over asking.
Nice digs, nice hood, nice views. Five and a half seems a bit of a stretch, though. Those widows must be awfully expensive. I can only guess what they’d want for orphans.
I’ll take a wild stab and say that last year’s 1.13M sale wasn’t exactly “arms length” or a fair comp. And while you mention that they’ve redone the place, thoroughly by the look of it, more than doubling the ’06 sale still rings hopeful to me.
Good luck with it, fellas. I suspect we’re going to be seeing it in the listings for a while, though. It can take some time to find that one buyer.
damn cool. I love this place
The redwood burl kitchen island is a bit Big-Sur-wet-dream, no?
also very interested in the deck chair in photo 23…
I’m not crazy about the exterior facade. But at least it’s just bland, and not a total eyesore. The inside just may compensate. Love the high/open/vaulted ceiling in the kitchen photo. Surprisingly pretty decent views.
i’m a little undecided if I would want to live in that area. though i like that there’s a lot of stuff within walking distance. The school up the black might be an annoyance.
the counter/bar in the kitchen is great. it’s the type of thing that if you described the idea, i wouldve been skeptical. but actually seeing it executed, im actually a big fan.
Is anyone else digging on the see-through fireplace like I am? I don’t say this often here, but this place has the wow factor.
Love the lush greenery and the incredible amount of light, but the design itself feels more “hotel” or “conference center” to me than anything like a home.
Some of it is the oversized ceiling heights that make the rooms feel commercial. Some of it is the contemporary architecture that puts everything at sharp angles and with hard materials.
The very natural wood breakfast bar seems like the lone outpost for nature in this rectilinear space.
Someone will love it, but I can only hope that architecture swings back around to creating spaces that are more human-scaled and which provide for people to connect with their past (i.e. some contextual connection to the neighborhood), to their families, their community and to the world around them.
I have visited this house. It is spatially and visually a stunner. Lucky they who’ll get to enjoy life in it and its botanical oasis in back.
Love the see-thru window fireplace on the mezzanine – shades of the one in Villa Malaparte, Capri (visible in Godard’s ’63 film, Le Mepris).
ecohistorical,
Where were you when your Downey street project had it’s own thread. Nothing to say about that one?
I like your Sanchez street purchase. I was going to write on that myself but you got there first. Good luck.
For Telegraph Hill, the views from this place are far below average, especially for this price.
The list price for 468 Filbert has just been reduced $500,000 (9%), now asking $4,995,000.
in contract
The sale of 468 Filbert closed escrow today with a reported contract price of $4,900,000 ($901 per square foot). Let’s not forget those invitations to the housewarming.