Filling an Airbnb with unique objects and quality furniture can feel like a big risk when it comes time to hand the keys over.

Design platform Unfold Projects had artists rework salvaged materials of architect Shanna Kellogg’s ’70s experiment in organic modernism, including turning redwood into a guitar.

Working with obtuse angles, triangular rooms, a leaky roof, and a pool full of frogs, a couple revived the storied midcentury and made it pop with color.

The monolithic home by Erentia Arquitectos pairs cavernous interiors with perfectly placed skylights and pocket gardens.

It was out with partitions and in with straight lines: for the pink kitchen, bathroom tile with yellow grout, terrazzo flooring, and bedroom furniture with seafoam-green trim.

Crafted from wood, stone, and glass, Aaron G. Green’s Anderson Residence is perched high on a Rancho Palos Verdes hillside with views of the Pacific Ocean.

It traces a grandiose extension down a hillside, made all the more dramatic by a climbing net that reaches the ceiling.

“We thought, ‘This could really shine and grow here if we treat it seriously as part of the design,’” says GRT Architects cofounder Tal Schori.

Set in Karuizawa, the turnkey retreat includes four forest structures inspired by the form of avian flight.

With extra-thick boards, durable fiber cement construction, deep shadow lines, and crisp mitered corners, Hardie® Artisan® Siding turns a familiar facade into an architectural...