After renting in San Francisco for a decade, DIY couple Molly Fiffer and Jeff Waldman bought 10 acres in the Santa Cruz Mountains, where the pair and their friends built a cabin compound complete with sheds, tree decks, a pavilion, a wood-fired hot tub, an outhouse, and an outdoor shower. The cabin is made from locally sourced, rough-sawn redwood, which the couple stained with nontoxic Eco Wood Treatment to give the panels an aged appearance and a dark patina.
Candour is a prefab building system and a tool to customize building components within that system—including walls, floors, facades, and roofs—with a proprietary CAD plug-in. Users of the software can draft a design, determine if it’s feasible, and price it all in one day. Designs are built at Candour’s manufacturing facility in Sunshine, Melbourne.
The siding is covered in “Simply White” by Benjamin Moore.
Bess describes the original stain of the house as a "muted mustard yellow,
The lofted space shag carpet was replaced with bouncy cream colored popcorn Berber Carpet to spark feelings of summer camp nostalgia.
Glass folding doors from Panoramic Doors reach nine-and-a-half feet high to open the kitchen to the courtyard. “It's such a unique feature, especially in Brooklyn,” says Slocum. “You rarely ever see that type of thing.”
Floor Plan of Bungalow Blonde by LiteraTrotta Architecture
The kitchen has a cooktop, oven, and enough prep space for Koltuniak and her husband (plus their two sons when they visit).
The stairs lead down to the kitchen, which gets some shade.
This countryside residence favors simple, sustainable moves over square footage, and strategically captures views without walls of glass.
Measuring only 180 square feet, this exquisite, off-grid tiny home features a big sense of style.
There's a loft above the family room where kids can play.
The master bedroom features a glass wall that looks out to the water. “It’s a fantastic thing,” says Egelund. “You wake up in the middle of the night, raise your head and you can look out and see lights from ships on the water and the Great Belt Bridge.”
Floor Plan of Custom Beach House by Nordic Office of Architecture
The Max-A studio is another, smaller A-frame building that sits next door to the main house: not a bad commute at all.
Floor Plan of Vinalhaven Cabin by Levin | Salerno
DJ Adam Cooper, educator Brianna Swan, and their dog, Chu Chu, live in the 900-square-foot, two-bedroom, two-bathroom apartment on the ground level of a renovated back house in L.A.’s El Sereno neighborhood.
Casa San Cristobal floor plan
Floor plan of Pacific Northwest Ocean Cabin by Cutler Anderson Architects
The ranch-style home underwent an extensive remodel by Kansas City firm StudioBuild “that includes interior and exterior paint and lighting, Cortina Grande luxury vinyl tile flooring and bedroom carpet, sliding glass doors and windows, upgraded electrical,, custom solar shades, and refurbished original mahogany paneling,” says the listing agent.
The globe pendants in the garage are indicative of the Eichler’s onetime model home status. "Ball lights were installed only in Eichler model home garages," says listing agent Theresa Lee. "They set the garages up as sales offices and sold the lots and models from there."
Atelier Branco built 3,229 square feet of shelving units to house all of the client's texts, documents, and books.
Floor Plan of Garden House by Maike Design
With the nearby coastal cliffs reflected in their sharp rooflines, a vacation home and guesthouse play on the gabled structures of Canada’s Magdalen Islands. Residents Vincent Morel and Jan-Nicolas Vanderveken adapted a local custom by installing recessed entrances to keep strong winds at bay.
Floor plan of Witklipfontein Eco Lodge by GLH Architects
The external wall frames a beautiful existing Queensland bottle tree.
With its large covered porch and glazed walls, the Beaver Creek Cabin frames the forest like a picture.