"If you’re shelling out $2 million to modernize your Pacific Heights Georgian Tudor Revival mansion, you don’t wanna spend the next year staring out your front window at a fluorescent green box where the construction workers go to the bathroom. And your neighbors really, really don’t want their view impeded by a Porta-Potty. “They look like crap,” one neighbor succinctly put it. (It’s difficult to write about this topic without scatological commentary.) Linda Gebroe, who blogs about the renovation of her Noe Valley house, put it more delicately. “It’s such an eyesore on the sidewalk,” she said. Some high-end contractors in San Francisco have responded by crafting decorative enclosures for the chemical toilets their workers use. “When we first started doing it, some woman pulled up in her Beemer, jumped out and said, ‘Oh, it’s so Pac Heights,’ ” said Peter Downey of Peter Downey Construction, a pioneer of the trend. “If you take a drive around Pacific Heights, you can see some that contractors really put some thought into,” said Aaron Gordon of Aaron Gordon Construction, who has three diverse ones outside projects he’s working on." - Anne Bouey