This Colorful House in San Francisco May Be Boxy, but It’s Anything but Square
Interior designer Regan Baker used bold wallpaper and clever storage to liven up her Forest Knolls home.
Interior designer Regan Baker used bold wallpaper and clever storage to liven up her Forest Knolls home.
There is nothing square about interior designer Regan Baker’s newly-renovated home. That is, other than its shape. Baker renovated the 1,800 square feet midcentury home in San Francisco’s Forest Knolls neighborhood and made it an oasis for her family, including her husband, Jace, and their 11-year-old twins, Everett and Amelia.
Baker modernized the living room's pre-existing fireplace by encasing it in sheetrock and bringing it forward for a modern, minimal feel. The stationary louvers outside the upstairs window add texture to the exterior and shadow play to the interior when the sun hits them just right.
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"I love challenges," she says. "I wanted to take this box-like, cookie-cutter home and make it amazing and show people what you can do with a square."
Built in 1961, the Bakers bought the house in 2016, and renovated it from 2018 to 2019. Despite its boxy shape and questionable peach-colored exterior, the interior designer recognized its good bones. Furthermore, she and her husband were drawn to the property’s forested surroundings, thanks to UCSF’s Parnassus campus, located right across the street.
The linear quality of the living room's wood slat divider echoes the cedar planks on the home's facade, and contrasts with the curves of the couple's Estudio Persona side chair.
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Baker drew unexpected colors from this abstract landscape painting, which hung in the home prior to their remodel. Shades of hunter green and pale lavender harmonize with the range of neutral tones, including the walnut wood from the floating cabinetry.
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