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Style: Arts & Crafts Building Type: Single-Family Residential Year Built: 1912 Sq. Ft.: 1,800 Location: Lake District, San Francisco, CA CLIENT GOALS This elegant arts and crafts home had been owned by the same family for over 50 years, who maintained many of the original architectural details – from art glass windows, to hardware and interior decorative elements. Where the ...

Style: Queen Ann Victorian Building Type: 2-Unit Condo Year Built: 1900 Sq. Ft.: 2,700 Location: NoPA, San Francisco, CA CLIENT GOALS Improve the poorly modified original floor plan of the main living space of the home, including the kitchen, living room and dining room. Repair the structurally compromised and deficient framing. DESIGN SOLUTION This lovely 2-story town home suffered the ...

Style: Italianate Victorian Building Type: Single-Family Residential Year Built: 1900 Sq. Ft.: 3,000 Location: Noe Valley, San Francisco, CA CLIENT GOALS Nearly every room of this lovely Noe Valley home had been thoughtfully expanded and remodeled through its 120 years, short of the kitchen. Through this kitchen remodel, our clients wanted to remove the barrier between the kitchen and the ...

Style: Victorian Building Type: Single Family Home Year Built: 1885 Sq. Ft.: 2,400 Location: Haight, San Francisco, CA CLIENT GOALS Seismically upgrade the 135-year-old building, voluntarily Improve interior/exterior access to the private garden Manage light flow into the kitchen DESIGN SOLUTION Bringing the outside, in Centoni partnered with our clients to seismically evaluate and incorporate voluntary structural upgrades into this ...

Style: Victorian Building Type: Condo – 6 units Year Built: 1900 Sq. Ft.: 1,200 Location: Lower Haight/Duboce Triangle, San Francisco, CA CLIENT GOALS The floor plan of this beautiful Victorian flat remained largely unchanged since 1890 – making modern living a challenge.  The client sought to resolve a number of issues: The living room and kitchen were separate rooms with ...

Style: Arts & Crafts Building Type: Multi-Unit, 2 Units Year Built: 1906 Sq. Ft.: 3,000 Location: Parnassus Heights CLIENT GOALS A once grand 1907 era Arts and Crafts home had gone through a generation of hard times, first being used as a poorly maintained boarding house and then a rental property. Then, in 2001, a fire damaged about half of ...

Style: Mid-Century Modern Building Type: Single Family Residential Year Built: 1962 Sq. Ft.: 2,300 Location: West Portal CLIENT GOALS The single family home, built in 1962, had a fashionable mid-century and Danish modern styling but was in need of modernized design and construction upgrades after years of deferred maintenance. The owner wanted to increase the property’s usable square footage without ...

Style: Arts & Crafts Building Type: Commercial – Retail Year Built: 1907 Location: Cole Valley CLIENT GOALS One of San Francisco’s revered community partners, Cole Hardware, reached out to the Centoni Team to breath a bit of fresh air into their flagship retail store. Cole Hardware, located in the heart of San Francisco’s Cole Valley historic district, has been a ...