Explore - Pool

Decades after they met as teenagers on a Montauk beach, Manhattanites Victoria and Greg Pryor returned to Long Island to build a sustainable second home together.

By pooling their resources and giving their architect complete creative control, two busy Mexico City–based brothers built a high-design vacation home for just $70 per square foot.

Though the obstacles they faced were formidable, this couple’s perserverance brought them closer together and made their dream home a reality.

In Santa Monica, California, where pools are plenty but not always eye-pleasing, Padraic Cassidy lifted one 30 inches off the ground­—dramatically elevating its aesthetic appeal.

For those seeking refuge from an interminable game of Marco Polo, these four pool houses provide an artful escape.

The Sunshine State once yielded a bumper crop of modernist homes that—as this remodel proves—are still worth savoring.

In 2004, The Houses at Sagaponac—a controversial development on eastern Long Island—celebrated its first completed house. In 2005, the first residents move in.

An elegant new pool house keeps competitive swimmer Sydne Didier in top form, and out of the Connecticut River.

Two linked 1,000-square-foot pavilions are greater than a sum of their parts.

Dwell's popular Home Tours included a Breezehouse by Blu Homes in Healdsburg as a bonus tour during this spring's Marin Home Tours. With our annual Prefab issue now out on newsstands, we paid a...