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Explore - Design Ideas
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A Traditional Shingle-Clad Home in Connecticut
A creative twist on the traditional shingle clads a Connecticut home.
written by: Diana Buddsphotos by: Andrew Rowat02.04.13 -
An Eichler-Inspired Modular Home in California
With a sleek prototype in Emeryville, California, under its belt, Simpatico Homes sets out to redefine prefab's cost—and footprint.
written by: Joanne Furiophotos by: Jake Stangel12.22.12 -
A Lakeside Prefab in New Jersey
A New Zealand expat and her son use their prefabricated lakeside New Jersey retreat as an outdoorsy counterpoint to city life.
written by: Kelsey Keithphotos by: Mark Mahaney12.20.12 -
Into the Great Wide Open
For this rural Ontario home, building sustainably was less about high-tech gizmos than learning to truly love the land.
written by: Alex Bozikovicphotos by: Derek Shapton10.08.12 -
Gotta Bale
How an unfussy, nearly zero-energy family home in Santa Cruz, California, wound up with hay bales in the walls, a state-of-the-art heat pump system, and six very happy residents.
written by: Aaron Brittphotos by: Gabriela Hasbun09.17.12 -
A New Beginning
One family’s effort to “smuggle a modern house into a historic district” in Washington, DC, results in a brightly transformed space made for family life.
written by: Amanda Dameronphotos by: Eli Meir Kaplan09.10.12 -
Borrego Springs Eternal
A storied 1980 party house enters a mellower chapter of intimate gatherings filled with canapés, crooners, and cocktails.
written by: Erika Heetphotos by: JUCO08.22.12 -
Passive Progressive
Among the first Passive Houses in France, this bamboo-clad farmhouse by the Parisian firm Karawitz Architecture brings a bit of green to tiny Bessancourt.
written by: Anne Stark Ditmeyerphotos by: Nicholas Calcott08.18.12 -
Another Side of Ibiza
In a quiet corner of the famed Spanish party island, rug designer Nani Marquina and photographer Albert Font have carved out a serene, site-sensitive home.
written by: Suzanne Walesphotos by: Albert Font07.31.12 -
A World Apart
Inspired by her natural surroundings, a Dutch felt artist intuitively crafts a home on a northern Holland harbor.
written by: Jaime Gillinphotos by: Hotze Eisma07.29.12 -
Georgia Peach
Designer Barbara Hill applies her polished take on minimalism to a traditional 1920s abode in Atlanta for a transplanted Houston family.
written by: Kelsey Keithphotos by: Gregory Miller06.14.12 -
Rugged Good Looks
Why the clean, sophisticated interior of this Hollywood bungalow needed nothing so much as a man’s touch.
written by: Rico Gaglianophotos by: Zen Sekizawa05.27.12 -
Collector's Choice
In southwest England, interior designer and avid furniture collector Kathryn Tyler built her home around the vintage pieces she’d amassed over a decade.
written by: Alyn Griffithsphotos by: Andrew Meredith05.27.12 -
E+ for Effort
The E+ Green Home, a concept house located an hour outside Seoul, not only points the way to a greener South Korea, it may well be the most sustainable house in the country.
written by: Aaron Brittphotos by: Sergio Pirrone03.25.12 -
Grateful Shed
A family discovers the joys of DIY design—and muddy feet—in their home made up of distinct pods that blends harmoniously with its surroundings in the rainy mountains of Kauai.
written by: Erika Heetphotos by: Linny Morris03.12.12 -
Rock the Boat
New Zealand architect Davor Popadich invoked nautical sheds in his unconventional design for his family’s home on Auckland’s North Shore.
written by: Jeremy Hansenphotos by: Simon Devitt02.05.12 -
Green Is in the Details
Carver + Schicketanz Architects’ eco-friendly renovation earned this mid-century-modern home LEED Platinum certification and proved that when it comes to building sustainably, it’s all...
written by: Miyoko Ohtakephotos by: Mathew Scott01.23.12 -
Paint it Black
This family of cost-conscious Hamburgers (freshly back in Germany after years abroad) converted a kitschy turn-of-the-century villa into a high-design home.
written by: Sally McGranephotos by: Mark Seelen01.19.12 -
Arch Support
Layer by layer, a crumbling 18th-century flat in the middle of Barcelona finds new life at the hands of architect Benedetta Tagliabue.
written by: Suzanne Walesphotos by: Gunnar Knechtel12.29.11 -
A Sweetheart Deal
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.
written by: William Lambphotos by: Ty Cole12.14.11
