Last Chance to Linger: The Final Rooms of the SF Decorator Showcase

The San Francisco Decorator Showcase closes its doors this Sunday, May 25 — and if you haven't yet made the pilgrimage to this 1897 Queen Anne Victorian in Pacific Heights, designed by architect Moses J. Lyon, consider this your final invitation. Thirty designers have reimagined its rooms with remarkable range and ambition. Among the most memorable are three spaces on the upper floors that share a quiet, irresistible quality: the feeling that you've been transported somewhere else entirely.

"La Chambre Bleue" by Jeanne Renee Interiors 

On the third floor, with the Golden Gate Bridge hovering in the distance, designer Kristine Renee and Deborah Costa have conjured a Parisian boutique hotel of sorts. Their room, La Chambre Bleue, is the kind of space that makes you want to slow down — to order room service, pull the drapes, and stay awhile.

The canopy bed from the Madeleine Stewart Collection commands the room like a stage set, dressed in Pierre Frey quilt fabric and Schumacher bedding that layer texture upon texture in the most indulgent way. Around it, Sandberg Wallpaper wraps the walls in a cave-like intimacy, making the room feel simultaneously cocooned and expansive — especially with that view. Renee’s genius is in the tension: the grandeur of a European hotel suite pressed against the distinctly San Franciscan panorama just beyond the glass. Step out onto the adjoining deck, and the illusion deepens. You're here, and you're somewhere else, all at once.

"Birds of a Feather" By Sonoma Interiors

One floor up, Sonoma Interiors principal designer Andrea Halkovich took a different approach to escape — one rooted not in geography, but in nature. Birds of a Feather begins with wallpaper: House of Hackney's sweeping pattern of cranes and willow branches, in a deep carob tone that gives the room the feeling of a forest at dusk.

From there, every material choice reinforces the reverie. Sandra Jordan Prima Alpaca drapery — sourced from the Healdsburg-based luxury textile house — hangs from bronze curtain rods by Tuell & Reynolds, its feather-like fringe catching light with every draft.

The cream curtains offer an airy counterpoint to the Victorian millwork's density, as if the room is exhaling. At the hearth, Halkovich refaced the fireplace in clean-lined Tadelakt plaster, a North African finish whose smooth, mineral surface reads almost like a stone found in a riverbed — ancient and elemental, yet entirely modern. Tuell & Reynolds, the Cloverdale-based fine art-furnishings firm, contributed a sculptural fire grate and fireplace accessories that complete the composition. The result is a bedroom that feels curated over lifetimes, not months.

The escape continues through the adjoining bathroom, also by Sonoma Interiors, extends the room's naturalist spirit into a smaller, more meditative register. McIntyre Tile floors anchor the space with artisan craft — each tile a small, handmade object that rewards a closer look. After the drama of cranes and drapery, this room feels like the quiet moment after: a place to breathe, to rinse away the day, to be alone with beautiful things.

Together, these three spaces make a quiet argument for what interior design can do at its best — not simply decorate, but transport. In a Victorian house that has already survived more than a century of San Francisco history, these designers have added rooms that feel genuinely timeless: places you might remember long after you've forgotten what street they were on.

The 2025 SF Decorator Showcase closes Sunday, May 25. Tickets are available at sfdecoratorshowcase.org.