This bathroom was in the same Castro District duplex as the marble herringbone entryway. The work covered the bathroom floor, a new shower pan and surround, and the shower’s glass door. The bathroom floor is a medium-format tile. It’s big enough to keep grout lines to a minimum and make the room feel open, and
This is the downstairs bathroom in the same Pacifica building as the upstairs bath, the one guests use. Since it’s the bathroom visitors see, the owner wanted it to match the level of finish he’d brought to the rest of the space. The old floor was a rubberized vinyl in a raised penny pattern, laid
These kitchen cabinets went into the same Castro District duplex as the bathroom and shower pan and the marble herringbone entryway. Compared to those, this was an unremarkable job, and it went up pretty easily. The one wrinkle was the walls. Like a lot of older San Francisco buildings, this one had walls that were
This Montclair kitchen was a budget renovation in the truest sense. The homeowner was on a very limited budget, and this was really more of a favor than a paying job. The goal was to make the biggest difference with the least money, which meant keeping everything that still worked and refreshing what didn’t. The
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This Mill Valley washroom floor was completely by the book: a standard grid-pattern tile floor over a concrete slab. The client was on a budget, and we worked with him to make it happen. I love installing tile over a concrete slab. Wood subfloors flex, settle, and move with the seasons, and tile has to
Dry rot and weather damage are some of the most common repairs we do, and this Potrero Hill porch had both. The stair panel and the lower balustrade rail were rotting, and one of the porch’s support pillars had to be replaced. The stair panel is on the north side of the house. North-facing surfaces
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