Walk Score 95 Transit 98 Bike 90 + Corporate Shuttles. Urban Living at its finest with great weather too! Jazz Center, Symphony, Opera House, restaurants, shops and a small park just a few blocks to Whole Foods & Safeway make this a great neighborhood. Minutes to the Mission and SOMA plus freeways to East Bay & Silicon Valley and easy biking are an asset. Did you know that Native American cliff dwellers who lived in pueblos did not have doors? They had small openings in their homes just big enough to crawl through. The indians would use a woven mat or blanket to cover the opening. This way they did not loose heat in the winter and kept cool in the summer. Cliff dwellers had ladders to climb into their homes high above the ground that were easily pulled inside if intruders appeared. Today we have doors that provide safety and privacy from the outside world. We have come a long way since the end of the Classic Pueblo Period in about 1300. Today in San Francisco doors and doorways must meet minimum size safety requirements, but otherwise come in every size, shape and color imaginable with a wide array of details and personal decorations. Working for McGuire Real Estate I have the opportunity on Tuesday Brokers Tour and Sunday Open House days to see and walk through hundreds of door. Curb appeal is always an important factor in the sale of a home and the front door is a big part of that first impression a buyer has as they step into a home. I am not sure when the idea first struck me to photograph doors, but I began photographing doors as I traveled around San Francisco both for work and pleasure. At some point I began seeing interesting garage doors and gates and added them to my collection. I rationalized they were often the most primary entrance to a home and should be included. I began photographing doors and posted the photos on my Facebook business page San Francisco City Living. After a year or so I felt my door collection had outgrown San Francisco City Living and needed a home of its own. Real Estate + Photography = The San Francisco Door Project is the natural evolution of my work and life long interest in photography. Although the gestation period of the San Francisco Door Project has been a long one, close to two years, the San Francisco Door Projects official birthday is January 1, 2015. One thing I have always found about San Francisco to be true over the many years I have lived here is the city is a constantly changing visual treasure. The light, the weather, the time of the year and the time of the day provide new opportunities to experience what on the surface may be a simple neighborhood block of homes, but on closer examination the front doors provide an intimate look into the imagination and personality of the homes occupants. In the beginning I did not consider organizing the doors in any particular way. As my collection grew it became apparent something needed to be done. Since the neighborhood groups were organized long after the photograph was taken there may be a few doors out of order. This will always be a work in progress and I ask that if when viewing the photos if you find a door displayed in the wrong neighborhood please let me know. My goal is to make the San Francisco Door Project as accurate as possible. There are many doors that stand alone as interesting photographs. Everyone including me has their favorite doors. For me the thing that is most compelling is to view the doors as a group and see the variety of personal details in each door, and its immediate surroundings. The San Francisco Door Project is definitely the sum of its parts. I feel looking at the doors as a group is incredibly more interesting that looking at individual doors. Where to find the San Francisco Door Project: Twitter: @SFDoorProject The San Francisco Door Project began Tweeting a door a day on January 1, 1015 Facebook: facebook/SFDoorProject Youtube: Youtube/SFDoorProject Email: SFDoorProject@gmail Web: SFDoorProject The San Francisco Door Project has a web domain, but it is not active yet. Not sure when this next step will happen, but it is in my dreams. Would you like to join me in posting interesting doors on Twitter, Facebook or become a part of my Youtube neighborhood slide shows? Follow the San Francisco Door Project on Twitter and like San Francisco Door Projects Facebook page. If you email photos of doors you find around San Francisco that catch your fancy I will Tweet them and add them to San Francisco Door Projects Facebook page. Be sure to tell me the neighborhood where the door is located and if you would like credit, please tell me your name too. I reserve editorial right to not post a door to the San Francisco Door Project if I feel it is a duplicate or if I feel for any reason that it is not suitable to the San Francisco Door Project. Please be patient if you email a door and it is not posted immediately. My primary work is selling real estate. The San Francisco Door Project is a combination of marketing and fun for me. Sometime in 2015 I hope to have an exhibit of neighborhood door photographs. If you would like to know, please email me and I will send you a notice of the San Francisco Door Project’s exhibit.
Posted on: Tue, 30 Dec 2014 01:52:45 +0000