San Francisco-based Studio Terpeluk has renovated and expanded Redwood House in Noe Valley with redwood interiors and terraces.
The three-storey Redwood House was originally designed by American architect Albert Lanier and sculptor Ruth Asawa in a hilly  San Francisco neighbourhood characterised by Victorian and Edwardian houses.
Studio Terpeluk renovated an interior in Noe Valley
Studio Terpeluk was selected to expand the 1976 house from 2,260 square feet (210 square metres) to 3,218 square feet (299 square metres) with a new guest room suite, home office, wet bar and media room.
The renovation "surgically modified the house in an architecturally non-aggressive manner," the studio said.
Western red cedar was used for the walls and ceiling Wrapped with irregular western red cedar planks, the narrow house cascades down the hillside with exterior courtyards that mitigate the grade change.
One enters the house through an intimate courtyard off the street into an open-plan upper level with a sloping ceiling and dark-knotted Douglas fir flooring made from local reclaimed pier pilings.
Many of the walls and ceilings were updated with vintage rough-sawn redwood veneered plywood maintained from the original build.
"Redwood surfaces and structural elements complete the warm interior landscape: from the sloping roof beams to partition walls and built-in shelves," the studio said.
The renovation expanded the home
To the left of the entrance is the kitchen with cus...