A Mediterranean Makeover And A New Electric Versus Gas Stove
Purchased for $1,995,000 in August of 2010 having sold for $2,000,000 in 2005, the Spanish Mediterranean bones of 49 Divisadero Street have since been made-over. A bedroom and bath have…
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Lurking Behind This Larkin Street Penthouse Wall: The Office
Penthouse #6 atop the Russian Hill building at 2555 Larkin Street was purchased for $1,950,000 in 2002 in need of updating, and updated it was (click floor plan to enlarge).…
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Fifty Shades Of Saitowitz Grey
While Saitowitz designed buildings, such as 1234 Howard Street, typically feature many shades of grey, reactions to Saitowitz’s modern aesthetic tend to be black or white. Purchased as new for…
Not Dueling But Dual Stoves (And Pot Fillers To Boot)
Forget the duel between gas and electric ranges, the dual stoves at 1703 Octavia are back. And yes, there are dual pot fillers, sinks and dishwashers as well. Purchased for…
A Buena Vista Party Pad (Panties Not Included)
Built in 2007 on a double lot, 15 Buena Vista Terrace measures over 7,000 square feet with four bedrooms, four and one-half baths and many modern finishes throughout. Think Poggenpohl,…
At Least It’s Not Mounted Over A Fireplace
As we wrote in 2006 with respect to the photo above, “While plasma screen televisions still manage to grab people’s attention, sometimes they do so for all the wrong reasons.”…
3235 Pacific Ave: Purchased With A $20 Down Payment (In 1908)
With a Presidio Heights lot that was purchased with a $20 down payment in 1908, Edwin Stadtmuller and his wife Elisabeth hired architect William Knowles to build the two-bedroom home…
Where’s Waldo The Couch?
With the two-bedroom 301 Main Street #14D currently rented for $4,800 per month, we don’t know if it’s the $4,950 per month asking rent for a furnished one-bedroom at the…
Vanity, Pure And Simple
Sporting a big floor plan for a condo and some rather nice finishes, including a copper hood in the kitchen, it’s actually a fixture within 2253 Broderick that simply caught…
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An Ethereal Orlando Diaz-Azcuy Designed $3.2M One Bedroom
It’s not (yet) official inventory, but 1170 Sacramento #15A which was redesigned by Orlando Diaz-Azcuy with white Japanese crystallized glass floor tiles, white lacquered wood wall panels and highly polished…