I love taking house tours and this one is just lovely.

Ha! We were in SF this last weekend too! Biked over the Golden Gate Bridge :)

Gorgeous pics - thanks for sharing! I just love the stained glass, and the attention to detail is incredible!

Which tour is that? I want to take it! Even though I live in the bay area I don't know my way around SF any more than a tourist.. I'd love to see one of these homes in person, from the pictures they're everything one would expect them to be. Beautiful!

I've always been curious who lives in these houses...what they do for a living, how long they've lived there,etc. Did they reveal anything about the owners?

How pretty! Thanks for posting!

Oh my gosh am I drooling or what? Yeah, that's drool I feel rolling down the side of my chin.
I was there in November of 06, but had no clue you could tour any of the homes. Here I am giddy as can be to be there.....
{{!gwi}}

Thank you for sharing those fantastic pics! I love the little demi lune tables with the swagged aprons! How pretty.
Diane

Yum! I was set on brown for the dining room but now am reconsidering peach!!!!

Awesome pictures. I have always wondered what the inside of a SF painted lady looked like. Those half-round faux fabric draped painted tables were too chic!

I'm so happy for you that you and your family got to take such a great vacation. :O)

Thanks, Daisy, for the gorgeous pictures! I'd have been standing in place with my jaw on the floor, unable to move until I'd taken in all of the details!

I have a friend-of-a-friend who bought an old Victorian row house in San Francisco 2 years ago for 2.1 million dollars. There's no garage, so when they come home from work or the grocery store, they may have to park blocks away and walk. What some homeowners in the neighborhood have done is given up a garden-level bedroom and made it into a tuck-under garage. This guy is negotiating with the owner next door to purchase what's essentially the dead end of an old alley, now with a roof over the top, for a tiny one-car garage. Asking price? $65,000.00. EEEEK! A nice place to visit, but......!

Beautiful. Thanks for sharing such a rare treat. c

Here's the owner of the home's website, his name is Michael Shannon. He actually rents it out for events - You want to get married there? He's a minister and he'll marry you!
http://www.shannon-kavanaugh.com/
He was very sweet and even shook my hand when I left! He also does custom furniture. He opens his home for the weekend tours.

Here is a link that might be useful: Tour company website

Thanks for sharing the house tour pictures. I wish we could ask the owner the name of the dining room paint color.

I also enjoyed the rest of your blog, esp the kitties. I lost track of how many times you re-did the laundry room. LOL. Your blog is aptly named Before and After.

*groan*

*sigh*

*grab towel to wipe chin*

*faint*THUMP*

Folkvictorian, $65k for a parking space is a bargain... in some of the better neighborhoods in Boston a deeded off-street parking space (not a garage space) can go for six figures. I don't know if there still are but there used to be realtors who specialized in parking spaces.

Then there's always shaggy rugs. I've seen some one our CL lately for way cheaper than fabric. Tack them up good and you could vacuum them right on the wall!

oops! That's what I get for both playing games and reading posts on the web. Sorry.