The professional online interior design service, Laurel & Wolf, recently partnered with Lennar Bay Area at The San Francisco Shipyard to offer included interior design services with new home purchase for a limited time and to decorate their newest model homes. Take a tour of their work below, from a story posted originally to their blog titled, ‘Two Hip Homes in San Francisco’s Coolest New Spot.’
Moving into a new place can be a transformative experience, but figuring out how to make multiple empty rooms feel like home is often more daunting than it is exciting. And if you’re graduating from renting to buying, the idea of making long-term design decisions can feel especially overwhelming. How do you get the soul of an old home without a degree in DIY?
Enter Lennar. One of the nation’s largest homebuilders is transforming 750 acres of the historic San Francisco Shipyard into 12,000 brand new homes, one of the biggest urban transformations in SF history. Located between Bayview Hunters Point and Candlestick Park, this piece of land dates all the way back to the 1860s, and has strong roots in everything from the civil rights movement to World War 2. Today, it’s home to SF’s oldest opera house, a thriving art scene, and more than a few food trucks.
In order to bring that old soul into these new interiors, they called on Laurel & Wolf. We transformed two of their model homes, Thayer and Alma, from empty boxes into lived-in spaces. “I wanted to create a space that felt collected and curated, rather than designed and put together all at once. I wanted it to feel personal, without it feeling too one size fits all,” says the lead interior designer, James Tabb.
The biggest challenge in designing these model homes? How to make them feel personal and lived in without being generic. “Model homes aren’t usually designed to evoke a feeling, emotion, or make a connection with anyone. I wanted to appeal to a new generation of home buyers who want something more unique than a house-in-a-box situation.”
To read the rest of the story and view the rest of their work at The San Francisco Shipyard, visit the original post here.
To find new homes for sale at The San Francisco Shipyard, visit www.lennar.com/TheSFShipyard.
With hundreds of communities nationwide and homes designed for first-time, move-up and luxury homebuyers, Lennar has grown to become one of the nation’s leading and most respected homebuilders. Lennar has a longstanding history of building homes of enduring quality in only the most well planned and desirable locations throughout the country.
