SFC&G is delighted to partner with the San Francisco Design Center on Where Hope Has a Home! Nearly 50 firms have provided pro bono interior design services for the 52,000 square-foot expansion of the Ronald McDonald House at Stanford.
Every day, Ronald McDonald House at Stanford offers accomodation, programs and support to families with critically ill children receiving medical care. By adding a new 52,000 square foot building, the House will become the largest of the 337 Ronald McDonald Houses worldwide with 123 guest rooms.
Florence Wu, one of the 48 Ronald McDonald House at Stanford designers, on how she spreads hope through design.
Ronald McDonald House at Stanford co-chair Geoffrey DeSousa shares one of his design boards.
Kimberly Larzelere’s vision for the Ronald McDonald House at Stanford’s exercise room includes Expresso exercise bikes, fitness equipment from Precor, art work by Katina Huston and Pollack fabric!
Robin Baron reflects on her experience as a Ronald McDonald House of Long Island designer.
Members of Butler Armsden Architects design team are testing out some of the kid-friendly furnishings including chairs from MY Bean Bag by Woodnotes, Hexagon Plain Carpet Tiles by Shaw Contract Group and pebbles by EIS Studio. Looks like fun!
Meet Senior Designer Jaclyn Christensen and Founder and Executive Director Kassin Laverty of Interior Design Fair, one of the 48 design firms participating in the Ronald McDonald House at Stanford. Check out their awesome mood board!
Things are shaping up for Sindhu Peruri of Peruri Design Company who is hard at work at the Ronald McDonald House at Stanford installing a guest room filled with furniture from Arteriors, Schoolhouse, Bungalow 5, Bend Goods and more!
‘Each time I visited the Ronald McDonald House, I saw families who were struggling to find peace and solace from the rigors of hospitals and medical treatments. To see the stressed face of the parents suddenly relax when they enter the doors of the House will forever be etched in my memory.’
Design makes a difference! Melinda Mandell unboxing the blue & white porcelain Sabrina Table Lamp by Ralph Lauren for her Ronald McDonald House at Stanford project.
Jeff Nishinaka’s paper butterflies are part of Kristi Will’s dining room design for the Ronald McDonald House at Stanford.
‘Testing out the comfort level on the custom daybed I have going in my room. Comfort level = excellent.’ -Penelope Jones
One of several curtain panels of ‘Star Gazer’ in progress at Michelle Pereira’s studio.
Jeff Nishinaka, paper sculptor, created these paper monarch butterflies for Kristi Will’s Dining Room!
Gorgeous wallpaper in Interior Design Fair’s room in the Ronald McDonald House at Stanford.
A sneak peek of the reading room Reba Jones of Butler Armsden Architects has designed for the Ronald McDonald House at Stanford.
Hope grows here! Sneak peek of the conference room at the Ronald McDonald House at Stanford.
Our amazing photographers Keith Scott Morton and Eric Richards hard at work photographing the rooms in the Ronald McDonald House at Stanford!
‘So excited to be using Katy Skelton pieces in my room at the Ronald McDonald House at Stanford! This marble table is beyond perfect, and can you believe this cozy fox? Thank you, Katy!’ -Melinda Mandell
‘This gorgeous Anastasia rug makes my space at the Ronald McDonald House at Stanford perfect! Thank you Loloi for donating to Room 336 and making dreams come true.’ -Melisa Bleasdale
This article appears in the February 2016 issue of SFC&G (San Francisco Cottages & Gardens).