SF Gate: ARCHITECTURE: Stepped Up Remodel, S.F. Architect elevates stairways to a new role in Potrero Hill project
Posted on Monday, February 20, 2012 by Allison Byers
Hard to say which came first, the metaphor or the stairs. When local textile maven Susan Chastain decided to transform her 1928 Marina-style Potrero Hill home into what she calls a grown-up dwelling (that is, on a par with the high-class abodes she's outfitted with her custom-made draperies, pillows and headboards for the past two decades), she may not have truly comprehended the symbolic implications of new staircases.