On Sunday Caroline and I went exploring to see some of the beautiful old houses. I'd been to San Francisco several times before, but not since I got interested in architecture, so it was fun to look around with fresh eyes.
You can see all the photos I took here, but below are some that sparked particular inspiration for Amherst.
Bamboo mural on the front of a house in Haight Ashbury - something like this might be nice for a shed or verandah wall?
I loved the glossy black finish on these stairs.
And I loved the concept of training vines to grow across the risers of stairs.
I like the small verandah under the eaves of this house and can see something like this working well with the style of Amherst.
You can barely make it out in this photo, but there's some lovely old stained glass set in the trellis on the edge of the verandah. Something like this could be really great on the verandahs at Amherst, at one end to screen something off, or simply as a partial divider maybe? In particular, for the old cottage now Dad is putting the wraparound verandah on.
I loved this plant, especially how the melodrama of it so fitted with that of the house. This is a reminder to not separate planting from the architecture.
Plunging rosemary plants... I never knew they could grow like this. This might be a nice option for around the balcony edges or on terrace walls.
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