House of Sand and Fog

San Francisco Magazine Theresa Gonzalez Joe Fletcher Architect Malcolm Davis revives a Pacifica beach cottage while preserving its coastal charms. An early 20th-century gable-roofed house one block from Pacifica’s fishing pier was sorely in need of an owner’s love when Kevin Hale, then a single UX designer-turned-investor, raised his hand. “I’ve always wanted a house that looked like a house, like one a kid would draw,” says Hale, a Florida native and devoted surfer who enlisted Malcol...