When architect Lewis Butler of Butler Armsden Architects met his new clients outside of their just-purchased home in San Francisco’s Ashbury Heights, he felt excited.
Butler knew the house, a large, stately Tudor built around 1906, very well: “I had worked for two previous owners,” Butler explains. “When I met this family, I could tell they wanted to do something better than good, and I felt we would get it really right this time.”
“Our agent resisted showing it to us,” says the owner. “Its layout was choppy, it had no garage and there wasn’t good access to the backyard. But we looked at it as a chance to start over and make a clean slate of it.”
The front facade was given a fresh, blue hue. Inside, the home was completely reconfigured, with a large, open-plan living room, kitchen and dining room on the first floor; kids’ rooms and an open landing playroom on the second and an uppermost level that serves as an adult sanctuary.
