We’ve been advised by AIA San Francisco organization they would like to include 55 Sheridan in their San Francisco Living: Home Tours 2007 program to be held the 15-16 September 2007. Kudos and a tip of the hat to architect Lundberg Design and the rest of the project team (see Links in the sidebar to the right). You’ve all earned the recognition. Now we just need to finish before then 
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San Francisco Living: Home Tours
July 8th, 2007Summer in the City
July 3rd, 2007
Malpas and Birmingham
July 3rd, 2007Hot in the City today; we stopped by the site to approve slab templates and caught contractor Kevin Birmingham and his partner’s son, Ken Malpas three floors off the deck working exterior details. There, Ken, as promised
Triple Trade Day
June 19th, 2007Today saw at least three trades on site: tile, stucco and carpentry. As can be seen below, GC Kevin Birmingham was all business installing freshly delivered casework from City Cabinetmakers and the crew from De Alba Brothers Tile were furiously at work on second and fourth floor baths. Also below, the handiwork of Crystal Springs Painting, can be seen in Enchanted Evergreen accent wall in bedroom 302. That’s architect speak for “office.”
Front Door
June 18th, 2007Lundberg Design presented their proposal for the entry courtyard and studio doors today. They suitably impressed us. Included below for comparison to anticipated later photos of the real thing, is a cut-out of the design PDF. Of cold rolled steel it will be made.
The Brothers Malpas
June 8th, 2007Ken and Dan Malpas have been a constant presence on site almost since the beginning filling in the gaps where there’s no sub assigned for a particular task. Their easy smile, (apparent) joy of life and hard work have made a huge positive influence on the over all site esprit de corps; infecting all who work with them. Stopped by the site this morning and caught Dan performing a fit check for the flashing to 45 Sheridan. Was hoping to snap a picture of Ken too, but someone mumbled something to the effect the dog ate his retainer . Catch you later, Ken Father and GC Bill suggested the reason they’d not been caught on film before was because they’re working so fast. While struggling to apply a particularly nasty metal bonding paint, in difficult locations, and becoming rather messy himself, I witnessed Dan give responsible architect Michelle the finger. A testament to Dan’s ultimate affability: everyone just laughed.
Interior Observations
June 8th, 2007
Morning View
June 8th, 2007Okay, the first one isn’t exactly about the view, more it’s the view of us. Nice to put things in perspective. The second one shows our view of Mt. Sutro from the roof. The remainder hopefully speak for themselves.
Stone Tile
June 8th, 2007Caught Manuel making progress in the MBath shower. Looking more like a single sheet of stone than tiles.
That paint! That paint! That paint!
June 3rd, 2007Crystal Springs Painting crew Luis Romero and Silvano Gonzales (in order, seen below) worked overtime Saturday helping keep us on schedule and taking advantage of fewer other trades underfoot while they put paint on everything that’s not floor, stone or metal or glass. Shown also are some early looks at how the paint selections will work together. Even though I titled the one image “Amalfi Red,” Luis says that’s not actually Amalfi Red. Rather, it’s the three coats of undercoating, preparing the wall so that the Amalfi Red–which is a clear base paint, and therefore difficult to cover whatever’s underneath and causing non-professional painters to pull their hair out–can hopefully achieve full coverage with just three coats.
