
The Joost Avenue Kitchen
The Brief
A hillside kitchen on Joost Avenue starts with one advantage most San Francisco kitchens don’t have: a view worth turning the whole room toward. What it had instead was a layout that kept its back to the bay and its work crammed into a corner.
The assignment: turn the kitchen toward the light, and build the work around one long, honest island.
The Approach
We reoriented the room to the window line and the bay beyond it, then ran the work along a single island sized for real cooking — warm wood cabinetry keeping the whole thing grounded against all that light.
- The orientation. The room turned toward the window line so the bay reads from the heart of the kitchen.
- The island. One long working surface — prep, seating, and storage resolved in a single run.
- The palette. Warm wood cabinetry and a quiet counter keep the room from competing with the view.
The Result
A kitchen that finally faces the right direction. The island carries the work, the wood warms the light, and the bay sits in the window where it belongs.


“When a room has a view like this, the design has one job: get out of its way.”
— Jacob Bachar, Principal, We Do Construction
Project Credits
| Design-Build | We Do Construction |
|---|---|
| Principal | Jacob Bachar |
| License | CSLB #1096552 · Class B, C-36 |
| Photography | Project photography, We Do Construction |
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