Well Preserved But Tastefully Remodeled Edwardian Home

I recently have been too busy to go to open homes, but this morning spotted on Redfin a really nice old Dutch Colonial style Edwardian home built in 1908 in Noe Valley:
http://www.redfin.com/CA/San-Francisco/3776-25th-St-94110/home/1981902

When I see a more worksmanlike Edwardian home like this one on the eastern side of the city, most of the time the inside's gotten majorly messed up already due to the home's age and neglect or ill-advised remodeling efforts from decades ago (though in other places in the city like the Inner Sunset or the Richmond, there are some really beautifully built and well preserved three-story Edwardian homes). But not here, the really beautiful original interior features have been nicely preserved, while some other spaces that likely needed upgrading or had already gotten messed up were very tastefully remodeled in a modern yet classy way. The traditional Dutch Colonial exterior:


Living room with original rounded ceiling, you can see the stairs and stained glass window in the right:


Dining room with old box beam ceiling (repainted in white):


Really nice modern kitchen that opens up into the yard with lots of natural light:


Original detailing - molding on the rounded ceilings and stained glass window:


Upstairs hallway with a glimpse of the nice and colorfully cheery modernized bathroom to the left:


More of the remodeled modern but classy bathroom - the colors evoke the 1950s for me:


One of the bedrooms - traditional with original rounded ceiling, but cheerfully painted:


Nice backyard:

1900's Victorian / Edwardian Outer Mission Home

I saw an interesting Victorian / Edwardian transitional house in the Outer Mission last weekend:
http://www.redfin.com/CA/San-Francisco/24-Niagara-Ave-94112/home/823171

It's actually already pending after less than two weeks, yet another example of the hot housing market in San Francisco right now - its official square footage sits at 836 square feet, it's got bars on the windows and it's located about a block from the corner of Geneva and Mission which is somewhat of a crime hotspot (on the plus side, it's literally across the street from El Pollo Supremo, where the grilled chicken seems to have a cult following in the City - I have tried the grilled chicken, pretty good, really). Though, that's not really why I find this house interesting.



This is a good example of a house that was built right after the period when highly ornamented Victorian houses were most popular (this was built in 1907 according to records though according to the agent it could have been built before since a lot of records were destroyed after the earthquake). This house has the shape of a Victorian house but has much plainer ornamentation, more in line with Edwardian houses built in the late 1900 and 1910's. I also think the exterior color is pretty hot. Even though I think of Sunset style homes as being houses built in the 1920's to 1930's primarily, this particular house does more or less has the same form as Sunset style homes - narrow row house on a narrow lot, one story living space over basement style garage.

It has a cute fireplace in the living room:


It's got nice detailing on the hardwood floors:


Nice built-in cabinet and wood paneled walls in the dining room:


Nice boxed beam ceiling in the dining room:


I was joking with the agent that this is a great three-bedroom 800 square foot house. This is because while the official statistics show 836 square feet and 1 bedroom, there are two fully finished un-warranted knotty pine bedrooms in the attic that are very cool and which I'm sure would be well loved by children:


Finally, one small funny thing I saw is the dining room has a nice window facing out, except looks like decades after this house was built, another house was built right next to it, blocking the view of that side window and making it somewhat useless: