Rossington Architecture

Jan 2012

The Wawona Street Residence was a small 2 bedroom flat tucked into the hillside, with a garage below. We dug out the back of the garage to create a family / media room and extended the rear of the house by 8 feet, adding a bedroom and a bathroom. The interior was gutted and opened up, modernizing the spaces and creating flow from the house to the back yard.

$500k

San Francisco, CA

Jan 2012

A small, compartmentalized 1960's builder house was enlarged by a mere eight feet to spur this major trnasformation. The living room was opened up to the kitchen and the rear yard by removing walls and tilting the ceiling up, flooding the space with light and creating a chimney effect, venting the entire house.Generous rift oak cabinetry throughout brings the house into a cohesive whole.

$425k

San Carlos, CA

Jan 2012

The 1,500sq.ft. Sunnyside Avenue Residence is a study in compactness and restraint. A small flat with a studio apartment below were integrated into a new two-story single-family house with the addition of an interior stair. The house was lifted, stripped inside and out, walls moved and ceilings raised to the roof line. The upper floor is flooded with light, with large windows and skylights. The house maintains its original form and footprint due to planning constraints. The interior intervention and exterior transformation of materials make this a modern jewel box of a house on a sunny street, two blocks from downtown. Hydronic radiant heating - both in the ground floor slab and in between the existing floor joisst above - powered by a high-efficiancy combination (heating and domestic hot water) boiler, low flow fixtures, LED lighting, man-made and stainless steel counters, energy star appliancess, and low and zero-VOC finishes complement this "green" transformation. The house is prewired for future photovoltaic panels and is preplumbed for gray water and rain water harvesting. Completed in 2013 by CLO CONstruction. Structural Engineering: SEMCO Engineering.Color Consultant: Gale Melton Design. Landscaping: Tilden Landscaping. Photos: Tyler Chartier & Phil Rossington

$400k

Mill Valley, CA

Jan 2012

Located within walking distance of the Palace of Fine Arts these three units underwent a tremendous rebuilding effort after a devastating fire. The units were completely rebuilt, although the skeleton of the building remained the same. The once-compartmentalized kitchens were opened up to the dining rooms and hallways, visually expanding the spaces without adding any square footage. Walls were reconfigured in order to add an extra bathroom, making these two-bedroom, 2½ bath units. The units feature many sustainable characteristics including hydronic radiant floors with a high-efficiency boiler, sustainably harvested cabinet hardwoods, dual flush toilets, low flow faucets, low-VOC paints and stains, a 10.1kW photovoltaic array, and excellent cross ventilation.

$1.5m

San Francisco, CA

Jan 2011

With a sweeping view of the San Francisco skyline, this house started out with an upper hand. The original house was built by the client's father it was structurally sound, but was outdated and needed some layout help. We flipped the upper floor, allowing the kitchen to open up to the hallway, visually expanding the space and creating bar height seating for larger gatherings. The kitchen is open to the hall and dining room, but can be closed off via pocket doors that hide away into the walls. New decks, a new entry and a few carefully placed skylights round out this major transformation. Completed in 2012 by Bradford Construction. Structural Enginering: SEMCO. Color Consultant: Gale Melton Design. Photos: Phil Rossington. Design Team: Phil Rossington, Jackie McKay.

$800k

San Francisco, CA

Jan 2010

The house was originally a small two-bedroom house, raised above a garage and storage space - typical of the housing stock built in the middle of last century in San Francisco. This project consisted of creating a usable family room, wet bar, laundry and bathroom in this storage area and making it part of the main house by designing a stair that connected the two levels instead of acting as a buffer between them. The intervention on the main living level consisted of a full renovation of the kitchen and opening it up to the living and dining rooms. The kitchen was also opened up to the stair and expanded vertically by way of generous skylight shafts that take advantage of the sloped roof. The big change was making the stair a generous, comfortable connector of the two levels. So often basement area remodels such as this turn out to be fine, but the solution leaves the two floors feeling isolated from one another. The resolution of the vertical circulation here makes the two floors feel like one house instead of disparate spaces. Large skylights and canted skylight shafts enlarge the kitchen and stairwell vertically and flood them with natural light.

$400k

San Francisco, CA

Jan 2009

The Cove Road project took a small cottage which had been added onto a number of times and made a cohesive whole of the various parts. This intervention combined the garage and TV room into a larger family room and included a renovation of the entire structure.

$900k

Belvedere, CA

Jan 2009

A typically underutilized storage area behind the garage was transformed into a master suite and fmaily room. Slatted wood covers the stair, allowing light and glimpses through the wall.

$250k

San Francisco, CA

Jan 2008

A typical compartmentalized Edwardian flat was opned up, creating a large living, dining, kitchen experience.

$200k

San Francisco, CA