Patrick Spalding, a native San Franciscan and his interior designer wife Katie Spalding returned to the Jordan Park residence where he was raised in 2017. “The wide streets catered to water balloon fights and street hockey matches on Rollerblades,” he recalls. In 2017, the native San Franciscan and his interior designer wife, Katie Spalding, returned to the Jordan Park residence he was raised in, where “the wide streets catered to water balloon fights and street hockey matches on Rollerblades,” he recalls.
The current primary bedroom was, in fact, once his childhood bedroom, though it has been transformed under Katie’s purview. Patrick’s parents purchased the 1919 dwelling in the mid-1980s, when he was 3. After renting out the home, the family moved in six years later when there was no tenant. His mother had suggested to the couple that they move in, as they had just welcomed their second child. “We fell in love with it,” Katie says, “but it was definitely in need of some TLC.” After acquiring the abode outright from the family, the couple embarked on a major renovation—even enlisting Barbara Chambers, the same architect that Patrick’s parents had hired decades prior. “It’s a very beautiful, classic structure, and we stayed in the same vocabulary both times we worked on it,” Chambers says, adding that it was important to Patrick and Katie to “do enough to the home to make it theirs—not just a decorated…
