San Francisco

Houses we’ve designed in San Francisco.

Stanza Interiors is an interior design studio in San Francisco. We design whole houses being remodeled, built or moved into, every room drawn and rendered before anything is ordered, for a design fee of $2.50 a square foot, paid once. Here: a Craftsman house in San Francisco, and two houses in the Bay Area and Sonoma.

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Updated October 2026

Our work

The work in San Francisco.

A white kitchen with black steel windows, patterned cement tile and a bench along the window wall

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A living room with a white painted fireplace and a pale rug — Living room

A dining room under a black ceiling with a brass chandelier — Dining room

A black powder room with a gold crescent mirror — Powder room

San Francisco · Craftsman house

A San Francisco Craftsman, brightened without losing its bones.

This San Francisco Craftsman had good bones and dark finishes: a brick fireplace under an arch, dark wood cabinets and wall ovens on a red floor, and a shower in blue and red checkerboard tile. We kept the proportions and the detail, and set out to lighten it.

The brick fireplace was painted white, with every detail of the brickwork intact, and is now the brightest thing in the living room. The kitchen was rebuilt in white cabinets and open shelves, with black steel windows, black-and-white cement tile and a bench along the window wall.

A few rooms went darker on purpose. The dining room sits under a black ceiling and a brass chandelier, and the powder room is black, with a gold crescent mirror. The checkerboard shower became glazed blue-green tile under a skylight, with brass fittings.

Before and after

Before: a dark brick fireplace under an arch — Living room

After: the same fireplace painted white, with a pale rug and a plant — Living room

Before: dark wood cabinets, wall ovens and a red floor — Kitchen

After: white cabinets, open shelves and black and white cement tile — Kitchen

Before: a shower in blue and red checkerboard tile — Shower

After: a shower in blue-green glazed tile with brass fittings — Shower

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Other projects in the Bay Area and Sonoma

Rendering

Bay Area, California

A house raised among redwoods, every window green.

A timber-clad house raised on its frame among the redwood trunks, with tall black-framed windows that look straight out into the trees.

Rendering

Sonoma, California

A low wine-country house made for evenings outside.

A long, low house of dark cladding and glass, set back behind lavender and stepping stones, with a wall of glass opening onto a long terrace set for dining outside.

How it runs in San Francisco

Your builder, our drawings, one calendar.

Most of the work happens virtually: we work from your plans, photos and measurements, and meet you in person when a project needs it. We don’t make site visits, install or manage construction. We fly to San Francisco often, so we can meet you when we’re in town, or make a special trip for a major milestone.

Your builder gets a parts list for every tile, stone, plumbing and appliance selection, and a Selection Calendar dated to their schedule. The furniture, lighting and decor we buy for you go to our local receiving partner, where each piece is unboxed and checked, then to the house on a date your builder sets.

One design fee, agreed in writing before you pay anything. Every fee, on the Fees page.

Questions

What families ask first.

We already have a builder.We work inside your builder’s plans.
What does it cost, all in?The design fee: $2.50 a square foot of the rooms in scope, paid once, however many rounds it takes.
Can you promise a move-in date?Makers and builders set those dates.
Where do you work?Austin and San Francisco.
Every question

A first conversation

Tell us about your house.

A free 30-minute call with Preston and Sunthar, the two people who will design it. Walk us through the rooms you want designed, with photos or plans if you have them, and we’ll work out your design fee with you on the call. Nothing to sign.

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