Diamond Residence

San Francisco, California

Interior Design: Torbit Studio

Project Phase: In Construction

The renovation of an existing house on a corner lot in Noe Valley required a creative approach to maximize outdoor space while also developing enduring and appropriately scaled planting and material strategies .

A deck and built in benches made with untreated western red cedar provides seating along the edges of the main garden, while burned and brushed western red cedar walls provide privacy on two sides. The third side of the garden is buffered by the existing garage wall, planted with vines trained on a stainless steel wire trellis. The garage is retrofitted to support a green roof of indigenous and adapted California plants, visible from the main house.