A Skateboarder’s Dream Homes: Ms. Bigbie interior designer and aesthetic omnivore

By matalangit On July 18th, 2009

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A Skateboarder’s Dream Homes: Ms. Bigbie interior designer and aesthetic omnivore at Jay Shapiro, a skateboarder and musician, and Claire Bigbie, an interior designer, turned a Victorian in San Francisco’s Noe Valley into a skater’s dream homes. A Skateboarder’s Dream Homes Ms. Bigbie — who had been collecting furniture since she was 14 — has filled the home with vintage and contemporary pieces. A Skateboarder’s Dream Homes a modern bathroom designed to look like a pool, with depth marks and pool coping. A Skateboarder’s Dream Homes Ms. Bigbie painted the mantel in the modern bedroom Benjamin Moore’s Pool Party Blue. A Skateboarder’s Dream Homes Artwork by Ms. Bigbie and Mr. Shapiro’s friends hangs in the kitchen; the paper on the wall at right is Angles, by Erica Wakerly. A Skateboarder’s Dream Homes the blue-black exterior paint was custom mixed by the architect. The a Skateboarder’s Dream Homes ground-floor studio has a rolling garage door that opens to a garden designed by Flora Grubb. A Skateboarder’s Dream Homes a black laboratory sink Ms. Bigbie found at a salvage yard was fitted with customized faucets. nytimes.

A Skateboarder’s Dream Homes dressing room has wallpaper by Tom Dixon.

A Skateboarder’s Dream Homes: Ms. Bigbie interior designer and aesthetic omnivore at Jay Shapiro, a skateboarder and musician, and Claire Bigbie, an interior designer, turned a Victorian in San Francisco’s Noe Valley into a skater’s dream homes. The couple met 10 years ago at a skate park in Rhode Island; they bought their house for $1 million in 2005.

A Skateboarder’s Dream Homes: Ms. Bigbie interior designer and aesthetic omnivore.

A Skateboarder’s Dream Homes Still, for Ms. Bigbie, an interior designer and aesthetic omnivore, and her boyfriend, Jay Shapiro, 33, a skateboarder who is the bass player for Space Vacation, a heavy metal band in San Francisco, skateboarding — its renegade, Zen essence — is a way of life. And pool skating is the apogee. A Skateboarder’s Dream Homes inside the house, she and Mr. Shapiro dreamed of a bathroom designed to look like a pool, with pool tiles, depth markers on the walls and even cement coping that they would use as shelves.