Ms. Bigbie — who had been collecting furniture since she was 14 (about the same time she started skating) and had designed a skateboard clothing line by 16 and graphics for the indie record company Tooth + Nail by 18 — worked at the British furniture design company Precious McBane. Mr. Shapiro became an assistant to Richie Hopson, a British photographer.
When he was offered a job as a team manager for Think Skateboards in San Francisco, they returned, and Ms. Bigbie became a stylist for the do-it-yourself magazine Ready Made. They moved into a rental cottage in the Mission along with two dogs (Sen-C, a mutt, and Rollie, a black Labrador), his musical instruments and her furniture.
Ms. Bigbie filled it with vintage and contemporary furniture, British wallpapers, skateboard art, her boyfriend’s skateboard photographs and the work of friends from the Rhode Island School of Design. She played with Pantone color chips, searching out hues that turned the traditional Victorian filigrees and embellishments of the house into abstractions. And three days after the house was finished in 2007, Mr. Burnham hired her.
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