No parking but restored woodwork and glass galore behind the gate at 1368 McAllister.
Designed by Arthur Joseph Laib and constructed in 1909, since restored with “updated systems” and a few new appliances in the kitchen (a classic Wedgewood stove remains).
∙ Listing: 1368 McAllister (4/3) – $1,800,000 [MLS] [Map]
∙ Arthur Joseph Laib [sfhistoryencyclopedia.com]
It’s a shame about the rug in photo 22, man. It really tied the room together.
This is a quiet little fortress off of Alamo Square. The house for sale is not one show in pic, rather one which sits in the back of the lot (a preferred location behind garden with better city views & removed from the hum of the buses.) I’d paint some {a lot} of the woodwork white. Given how special this house is, the house website is unfortunate (delete the music, and all the too-close-up pics of random details).
Do not paint the woodwork!!!!! Oh my gosh!!!! There is too much painted woodwork in the city!!!!
One day, all this painted woodwork will be out of style and everyone will be paying a fortune to strip it all…
Pretty home from pics!
Don’t ever paint the woodwork. I hope you were kidding…
Much as I dislike over-intrusive city policy, I think it is time for City Planning to stop people from gutting and ruining the City’s original houses. So much history and detail is lost in the name of trends and fashion that only last a few years. (Not to mention, it is extremely wasteful and hard on the environment to tear out kitchens and baths every few years.) Anyway, this isn’t the correct forum for that discussion.
I agree with reguru.
The interior of this house is beautiful and unique. It has great character. You see so many of these old homes that have had the character stripped out of them and replaced with sterile, Ikea-like modern interiors. If you want white interiors, there are plenty of places that offer them….
Oh yeah – paint the woodwork!
And while you’re at it, replace all the windows with those aluminum frame jobbers, that have a seam up the middle. So moderne.
And gotta take out those ornamental fireplaces, and replace with sleek fake marble sheaths. Yum.
Idiots have been painting woodwork in SF for years. At one time 2508 Vallejo had all its original, unpainted woodwork.
It is hard to stop the philistines, and it is very expensive to undo successfully.
How on earth are we supposed to understand this home without it being cluttered with designer furniture ? I looked at photo 10/15 for several minutes before realizing that this was the living room. Identifying that room would have been so much easier if it was loaded up with DWR and Limn floor samples.
MOD, sort of like “We put in the basics of a kitchen you will rip right out, just to show you what a kitchen looks like.”
$5000 down the tubes
“We put in the basics of a kitchen you will rip right out, just to show you what a kitchen looks like.”
But if they didn’t do that, the house would technically be uninhabitable. Nothing wrong with this, and this is a good thing to do if you’re making the assumption that the new owner will remodel the kitchen.
This is MUCH better than spending ridiculous amounts of money on a non-functional kitchen with fancy stainless steel appliances and then claiming the remodel increases the value of the house by more than the cost of the remodel, even though the new owner will change the kitchen anyway, which is what happens for a large number of expensive properties featured on SocketSite.
You all make me want to buy this house just to paint the woodwork.
Actually I like it just way it is, patina and all. Just keep in mind that many of the houses you’ve seen on this site were gutted and remodeled decades ago- when this kind of interior was even more out-of-fashion. As for city/county regulation of interiors, srsly, how about hairstyle police? Shoes?
@Rocco,
You must be spending time in different neighborhoods than me; If I am not properly coiffed and shod leaving the house, I learn about it quite quickly with what qualifies as wit these days.
The light fixtures, that the agent spent so much time photographing, are not included!
Heck, I’ll trade the Wedgewood stove plus a little extra for those fixtures. Deal?
“The light fixtures, that the agent spent so much time photographing, are not included!”
It seems to be a trend.
“It seems to be a trend”
… perhaps a trend in reverse psychology?
I remember touring a house on the second visit when my agent pointed to the dining room chandelier and told me that it wasn’t included in the property. This chandelier was a 1950s era porcelain confection (echoing 1770s French royal style) so ugly that that Liberace would be embarrassed to hang in his garage.
My agent attempted to gain confidence by raising a red flag that she must have known mattered not at all to me. No risk in souring the deal raising this insignificant info but “points” for being objective and bringing this “negative” info to the buyer’s attention.
I’m sure there’s an expression for this sort of diversion tactic, sorry I can’t come up with the right words.
This is the same agent who glossed over my concerns about how another house was supported over an embankment. A decade later that house was condemned and was eventually demolished.