Spaces Magazine

09/30/2025

After their second home in Wine Country succumbed to the Kincade fire, the Battle family rebuilt it with the vision of once again welcoming family and friends.

How'd they do? Comment your favorite part of this home below!

Read the full story here: https://spacesmag.com/stories/homes/rebuilding-frome-the-kincaid-fire-the-battle-familys-healdsburg-retreat-blends-wine-design-and-family/

✍️ Lotus Abrams

📷 Adam Potts Photography

📐 Architecture: WA Design Architects

🛋️ Interior design: Nomadika Design Studio

🧰 Builder: Nordby Companies

09/17/2025

This century-old Spanish-style cottage takes on a new life as a modern family retreat ✨

Architect Chris Parlette transformed his family’s San Anselmo home with a two-story addition, pocketing glass doors and a seamless connection to the outdoors — a reminder of how great design can elevate everyday living.

Read more here: https://spacesmag.com/stories/homes/expanding-the-horizon-an-architect-re-envisions-his-familys-san-anselmo-home/

✍️ Lotus Abrams

📷 Adam Potts Photography

📐 Architecture: Holder Parlette

🧰 Construction: Carlos Cux

08/13/2025

This family’s forever home in Tiburon was renovated for its next phase: empty nesting 🪹

For more than a decade, a family of four lived in the same house in Tiburon, but when the kids left for college, the parents decided it was time for a refresh.

Read more here: https://spacesmag.com/stories/homes/a-familys-forever-home-in-tiburon-is-renovated-for-its-next-phase-empty-nesting/

📷 R. Brad Knipstein

✍️ Lotus Abrams

📐 Architecture: Castor Architecture

🛋️ Interior design: Jennifer Wundrow Interior Design, Inc.

🧰 Construction: Norman Charles Construction

07/24/2025

What happens when an interior designer finally gets to remodel her own home? 🏡

After renting in Mill Valley and San Rafael for more than 15 years and designing homes for countless clients, interior designer Kress Jack finally got the chance to remodel her own home when a fixer-upper in Mill Valley hit the market two years ago. “It was definitely a funky house, especially on the outside, but I was excited,” she recalls.

Read the full story here: https://spacesmag.com/design/creative-license-interior-designer-kress-jacks-mill-valley-home-is-awash-in-color-and-character/

📷 R. Brad Knipstein Photography

✍️ Lotus Abrams

🛋️ Interior design: Kress Jack

🧰 Construction: Buildrite Bay Area

06/20/2025

This San Anselmo home strikes a perfect balance of vintage and modern, rustic and industrial, playful and serene, and light and dark.

Read the details of this remodel here: https://marinmagazine.com/homes/a-san-anselmo-remodel-home-dressed-in-layers/

📷 Vivian Johnson photo

✍️ Lotus Abrams

🖼️ Styling: Yedda Morrison

📐 Architecture: Debbi Peterson

🛋️ Interior design: Caitlin Jones Design

🧰 Construction: Simonini Construction

06/10/2025

Standing inside the 1,000-square-foot ADU in Fairfax that Nick and Sylvia Calder now call home, it’s immediately apparent that this is no ordinary residential structure.

The walls are far more substantial than a typical home’s — 22 inches thick, to be exact — and made of concrete covered in natural plaster that feels softly textured to the touch. Nick, a contractor by trade, built the structure himself after spending years researching concrete construction systems. “I’ve had a dream of building a concrete house for probably 20 years,” he says.

Take a look inside: https://marinmagazine.com/homes/made-to-last-a-fire-resistant-adu-with-an-old-world-aesthetic-in-fairfax/

✍️ Lotus Abrams

📷 David Duncan Livingston Photography

📍 Fairfax, CA

A contractor in Fairfax builds a concrete ADU to age in place, keeping fire resistance and an old-world aesthetic top of mind.

05/28/2025

This Mill Valley home was remodeled for family, friends and community 💛

🏀 The driveway is used for neighborhood basketball games rather than parking cars

🔥 The front yard features a firepit instead of fences and gates

📚 The living room serves as both a library and a TV room

🎱 The dining room is used more often for playing pool than for hosting formal gatherings

Great job to the team who worked on this beautiful space 👏

🛋️ Interior design: Mansfield + O'Neil

📐 Architecture: John Lum Architecture, Inc.

🧰 Construction: Barker O’Donoghue Master Builders

🖼️ Styling: Allegra Hsiao Stylist

📷 Kuoh Photography

✍️ Lotus Abrams

Read the full story here: https://marinmagazine.com/homes/a-mill-valley-home-remodeled-for-family-friends-and-community/

SpacesMag

05/15/2025

How do you modernize a 1970s-era, split-level home situated on a steep hillside with a chopped-up layout to capitalize on the views while maintaining warmth and intimacy?

Find out here: https://marinmagazine.com/homes/open-house-a-boxy-1978-era-ridgetop-home-in-kentfield-gets-a-common-space-overhaul-that-frees-up-the-floorplan-and-the-views/

✍️ Lotus Abrams

📷 Stephanie Russo

📐 Architecture by Kirley Architects

🛋️ Interior design by HKB Interior Design

SpacesMag

04/25/2025

This Larkspur home got a breezy, modern makeover (guess our favorite part... hint: 🟩)

✍️ Lotus Abrams

📷 Molly Haas

🛋️ Interior Design: L+P Interiors

🧰 Construction: Cal Summit Builders, Inc.

Get all the details of this remodel here: https://spacesmag.com/stories/homes/california-cool-a-larkspur-home-gets

Marin Magazine

04/17/2025

Powered by the sun, this home seamlessly merges sustainability and style ☀️🌿

"A decade passed before Greg and Lucia were ready to remodel. As the couple began to explore the possibilities, however, their desire to prioritize sustainability grew, and the scope quickly expanded.

They wanted to convert the property to all electric using solar power, harden the home against wildfires and reduce their carbon emissions overall."

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Here's the team that made it happen 👏

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☀️ Ann Edminster of Design AVEnues

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Full details in bio 🔗

Want to explore a sustainable remodel? Here are some resources from to help get you started:

🌱 provides a comprehensive guide to electrifying homes, including incentives and contractor connections

🌱 focuses on advocacy and educational resources for electrifying homes

🌱 offers guidance on energy-saving home improvements, including available rebates and incentives

🌱 Homeintel analyzes individual energy usage patterns to provide customized energy-saving recommendations

04/14/2025

Virtually untouched since the ’50s, this 2,300-square-foot, three-bedroom, two-bath house was in dire need of an aesthetic update.

Sausalito’s iconic Wolfback Ridge Round House has been masterfully reimagined — honoring the original design vision of architect Mario Corbett while introducing a refined, contemporary edge.

Take a look inside: https://spacesmag.com/stories/homes/revitalizing-a-landmark-sausalitos-wolfback-ridge-round-house-gets-revitalized/

✍️ Lotus Abrams

📷 R. Brad Knipstein Photography

Here's the team who made it happen 👏

🌳 Landscape Architect: Blasen Landscape Architecture

📐 Interior Architect and 🛋️ Interior Designer: ES | LO Design

🧰 Construction: Devlin McNally Construction

02/20/2025

Bibbidi-bobbidi-boo 🪄 Let's transform a potting shed into an innovate ADU studio. Cinderella may have had a fairy godmother but this home had Fischer Architecture!

When the first owner eventually sold this home, the new owners called back Fischer Architecture to complete the last step of the renovation – Transforming an unconditioned potting shed located beneath a wood deck into a flexible-use ADU with its own entrance that could serve as guest suite as well as a home office.

Read all the ✨magical✨ details here: https://spacesmag.com/stories/homes/an-innovative-adu-studio-enhances-a-craftsman-in-mill-valley/

📐 Architect: Fischer Architecture

🛋️ Styling: Yedda Morrison Studio

📍 Mill Valley, CA

✍️: Lotus Abrams

📷: Leslie Williamson

Thanks Marin Magazine for sharing this story!