San Francisco Chronicle
June, 2008
Design Showhome structure has green theme

This year's Metropolitan Home Modern by Design Showhome has a bit of a past - say about 105 years.

The stately 1904 residence in Pacific Heights has been chosen by the magazine to be its first showcase home in San Francisco. For the past three months Bay Area designers have been decorating the house room by room.

Media room

Erin Martin Design

Designer Carrie Channell spent five months scouring the Bay Area for old scaffolding. It seems that for safety reasons Cal/OSHA requires that all scaffolding be destroyed after it gets old and brittle. But that was just the way Channell wanted it, and because she was simply going to use it as paneling and not as a balance beam, there were no security issues involved.

Finally she persuaded a couple of scaffolding companies to start putting their retired wooden planks aside for her, before they were cut into pieces and discarded.

The St. Helena firm's founder, Erin Martin, liked the way the planks had gussied up her kitchen. She and her colleagues decided to replicate the effect in the show house's media room.

Plath Construction of San Francisco took on the task of installing the boards.

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