San Fransisco Eye Candy & Inspiration!

[madtex1967]

A friend posted this on Facebook from his hometown (SF).  The inspiration of some great mini houses.  It's nice to see it fully restored.

http://sf.curbed.com/2016/3/28/11319088/westerfeld-house

 

[havanaholly]

Thank you, Matt.  I noticed an awful lot of those furnishings could be reproduced in mini.

[Debsrand56]

Thanks for sharing, Matt!  Alamo Square is where one of the most well-known shots of San Francisco was taken--the one with the painted ladies and the city skyscrapers in the background.  I used to commute past it every morning when I lived near the Haight.  It's fun to see inside the house.  I love all the Bradbury & Bradbury paper.

[KathieB]

What a luscious mix of colors, textures, materials. Thanks for sharing, Matt.

[Elsbeth]

I totally identify with his dream of owning a particular house. Thank goodness I can have some semblance of it in miniature! But I love reading about how he did it for real! WOW! Thanks for this link!

[fov]

This house has been reproduced in mini more than once.

http://jamesdjulia.com/item/lot-1338-jim-marcus-dolls-house-8613/

http://www.inpayne.com/dollhouse/dollhouse11front.html

http://greggsminiatureimaginations.blogspot.com/2016/05/san-fransisco-house-made-from-cardboard.html

http://sueherber.com/current_projects/embassy/ (she flopped it so the door is on the right)

There's a misconception in the mini world that this house is San Francisco's former Russian Embassy (Sue Herber's website says that). It's not. At one point at the turn of the century it was owned by Russians who used it as a nightclub (as mentioned in the article). Jim Marcus called his version of the house the Russian Consulate and that seems to be where the misunderstanding started.