Biking back from the Farmer's Market Saturday mornings always brings random SF adventures. Today we passed by this house that we've biked by before and admired the quirky, eco architeture of, and it had an open house sign outside. So we stopped and said hi to the realitor in the doorway, who was nice enough to let us inside to check out the place. He even watched our bikes for us.
Among a million clever and sustainable design details was this amazing mural in the master suite (the lamps are for reading in bed). The roofdeck had living plant walls and there was a windmill in the yard that produces power for the house (there is second larger unit in the building that the owner lives in). The banister for the stairs was filled with circles cut from different sizes of metal pipes, and the entire upstairs was a kitchen-dining-living area, that screamed "host chic cocktail-dinner parties in me!" The shower in the master suite was covered in round pebbles so it felt like you were bathing in a mountain stream. There were bamboo plants outside the clouded first floor windows, providing privacy from the street and the coolest shadows on the glass from the inside (you could watch the bamboo stalks sway in the breeze). Check out more pictures at 1303 Alabama.
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