San Francisco is right across the Golden Gate. But from this $10 million Sausalito home, the city can feel considerably farther away.
Set privately above Richardson Bay at 234 Currey Lane, the nearly 4,800-square-foot residence looks out across an ever-changing panorama of water, boats, hills and fog, with mature landscaping providing a green buffer around the property.
It also happens to be the product of an impressive Bay Area design roster. And is now on the market asking $10 million. Tyler Stewart with Heath Real Estate holds the listing.
Between 2023 and 2025, the residence underwent a comprehensive reimagining involving architecture firm Ike Baker Velten, acclaimed San Francisco interiors practice The Wiseman Group and Fontana Construction.
Far from a cosmetic remodel, the project reached into the home’s infrastructure while reshaping its interiors, terraces and relationship with the landscape.
The result is a three-story residence where each level has developed a distinct job: entertaining and everyday living on the main floor, a private primary retreat above, and an entire lower level devoted largely to work, exercise, wellness and downtime.
For its owners, that arrangement addresses one of the property’s biggest attractions: the ability to live a quieter, more spacious life in Marin while keeping San Francisco just minutes away.
As they put it, “It’s the feeling of being away without actually going anywhere.”
A serious Bay Area design team took on the renovation
The project’s architectural pedigree begins with Ike Baker Velten, or IBV, the practice led by John Ike, Carl Baker and Tyler Velten.
The firm emerged following the 2022 dissolution of acclaimed architecture practice Ike Kligerman Barkley, which Ike co-founded in 1989 and which earned recognition from both the Architectural Digest AD100 and ELLE Decor A-List.
IBV doesn’t subscribe to a predetermined house style, instead allowing the site, materials, history and people living there to shape each project.
At Currey Lane, that meant creating an understated backdrop for the home’s most important feature: Richardson Bay itself.
The interiors were handled by The Wiseman Group, founded by Paul Vincent Wiseman in San Francisco in 1980. The firm has spent more than four decades working on high-end residences in California and beyond and has repeatedly appeared on Architectural Digest’s AD100.
“We wanted the architecture and interiors to feel sophisticated without feeling pretentious,” the homeowners said.
French oak and stone keep the interiors quietly restrained
Rather than filling the house with conspicuously luxurious finishes, The Wiseman Group worked with a relatively subdued palette.
French oak runs through the residence, joined by custom stonework, bespoke cabinetry and carefully integrated architectural lighting.
The effect puts more emphasis on texture and craftsmanship than ornamentation — particularly important in rooms where large expanses of glass already provide plenty to look at.
Those materials also help soften the contemporary architecture, keeping the interiors warm against the glass and broad Bay views.
The renovation went much deeper than finishes
Behind the French oak and stone is a less glamorous but arguably equally important part of the project.
The renovation substantially upgraded the home’s infrastructure, bringing new-construction-level technology and systems into an established Sausalito hillside residence.
Electrical and networking infrastructure was upgraded, along with enterprise-grade Wi-Fi extending indoors and outdoors. Lutron lighting controls and whole-home audio were incorporated throughout, while four-zone HVAC provides more precise climate control.
Windows and doors were replaced or upgraded, decks rebuilt and outdoor areas finished with ipe and frameless glass.
Custom cabinetry and stonework continue throughout the interiors, accompanied by Waterworks fixtures and Miele appliances.
The main floor opens toward Richardson Bay
The main level handles the home’s everyday living and entertaining spaces, and the water is the organizing feature.
Expansive living and dining areas face Richardson Bay through broad walls of glass, drawing the view across the interiors rather than confining it to a single room.
Those spaces open onto a rebuilt terrace, extending the living areas toward the water and providing an outdoor vantage point above the Bay.
A custom stone fireplace gives the living room a substantial focal point without competing with the landscape outside.
The kitchen keeps its working spaces tucked away
The kitchen continues the home’s restrained material palette, with integrated cabinetry, stone surfaces and Miele appliances.
A full butler’s pantry provides a separate working and storage area, allowing much of the practical side of entertaining to remain out of the main kitchen.
The floor also includes two bedrooms and a full bathroom, giving guests or family members sleeping quarters removed from the primary suite upstairs.
Direct access to the two-car garage leads through a customized mudroom — another decidedly practical element incorporated into an otherwise highly polished interior.
Upstairs belongs entirely to the primary suite
Rather than splitting the top floor among several bedrooms, the house reserves the entire level for its primary suite.
That creates something closer to a private apartment within the residence.
French oak flooring continues upstairs, where the bedroom is joined by a spa-inspired bathroom, custom dressing area and a separate lounge and reading space.
Multiple private decks open the suite to elevated views across Richardson Bay.
It’s also the part of the house the homeowners say they enjoy most.
From bed, the landscape changes constantly as the light moves over the Bay, boats cross the water and fog rolls through the surrounding hills.
Private decks turn the bedroom into a lookout
The primary suite’s multiple terraces make the upper level particularly connected to its surroundings.
Rather than relying solely on large windows, the decks create several places to physically step outside and take in the view.
That distinction matters in Sausalito, where the relationship between hillside homes and the Bay below is often as important as the architecture itself.
Here, elevation provides the panorama while mature landscaping helps preserve privacy closer to the house.
Downstairs, the house changes gears completely
If the upper floor is about retreating, the lower level is considerably more active.
An entire floor has been organized around work, fitness, recovery and entertainment — functions that increasingly compete for space inside high-end homes.
There’s a dedicated home office with its own private deck, allowing the workspace to operate separately from the main living rooms.
Beyond it, the floor transitions into a collection of fitness and wellness spaces that essentially functions as an at-home health club.
The wellness setup gets a sauna and steam shower
A dedicated fitness area anchors the exercise portion of the lower level, but the recovery amenities go considerably further.
There’s a private sauna and steam shower, making it possible to move from a workout directly into recovery without heading elsewhere.
Together with the floor’s outdoor access, the arrangement gives the wellness area some separation from the bedrooms and formal living spaces upstairs.
It’s a notably current use of square footage: rather than devoting the lowest level solely to storage or a large recreation room, a substantial portion has been designed around how its owners spend their time outside conventional living spaces.
Work gets its own deck, too
The dedicated office is another sign that this wasn’t designed around occasional work-from-home days.
It occupies a defined space on the lower floor and opens to its own deck, providing natural light and a direct outdoor connection away from the activity of the main living level.
For an owner with a demanding work schedule, that makes the downstairs function almost as a self-contained daily circuit: office, workout, sauna, shower and outdoor space can all happen on the same floor.
A media lounge and wet bar handle downtime
Wellness isn’t the lower level’s only assignment.
A media lounge and recreation area create space for entertaining and relaxing, accompanied by a wet bar and dedicated wine storage and refrigeration.
That gives the floor a second personality after working hours, without sending everyone upstairs into the principal living room.
Direct outdoor access further expands the entertaining space.
Opening up to terraces with generous views
Lower levels enjoy significant outdoor space, with terraces opening up to generous views of the scenic surroundings.
That creates another connection to the property’s landscaping while providing shelter from Sausalito’s famously changeable weather.
It also reinforces one of the renovation’s recurring ideas: the house doesn’t simply have a Bay view from one prized room.
The landscape remains present throughout much of it.
Mature landscaping keeps the hillside setting private
The residence’s outlook may be expansive, but the immediate surroundings are deliberately more enclosed.
Native landscaping and mature hedges shield the property without blocking its openness toward Richardson Bay.
That combination gives Currey Lane an unusual balance. The house sits close to one of the country’s densest and most expensive cities, yet its immediate surroundings are defined by water, greenery and the Marin hills.
And unlike a newly planted landscape that may take years to mature around a recently completed house, the established vegetation already gives the property a sense of seclusion.
San Francisco is still just across the Golden Gate
For all the work that went into the architecture, the location may ultimately explain the appeal best.
Sausalito occupies an unusual position between two very different versions of Bay Area life.
Head south and San Francisco is minutes away across the Golden Gate Bridge. Head north and Marin County opens into trails, beaches, cycling routes and vast stretches of protected open space.
At 234 Currey Lane, those two worlds meet on a hillside above Richardson Bay.
A day can involve meetings or dinner in San Francisco without giving up the space, privacy and outdoor access that become considerably harder to find on the other side of the bridge.
The owners originally came to the property because of precisely that contradiction.
From the house, San Francisco remains close enough to be part of everyday life. From the quiet terraces overlooking the Bay, it doesn’t feel that way.
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