Seattle-based Shed Architecture & Design worked with kitchen systems company Space Theory to create Quynh-Vy’s dream kitchen, complete with pink cabinets, open walnut shelving, and a 12-foot marble island.
Floor Plan of Schicketanz Residence
This 1963 residence was once home to the renowned sculptor Gerda Frömel, and it’s been carefully restored by its current owners.
Boy Boy fabricated the framing for the flue shroud and base, which was then finished with plaster, and given a limestone benchtop. The Arto Ceramic tile extends into the kitchen, which has a preserved wood ceiling with new skylights.
"The forest outside our windows brings us joy from the moment we wake up in the morning," says Jonah, "while we watch the hawks and birds and drink our coffee to the period of dusk when the deer pass through on their evening foraging and the fox come out of hiding."
Unsurprisingly, the ofuro is a favorite part of the home for the young family. “They use the ofuro all the time, just as they said they would!” says Katich of his clients.
The ofuro was intentionally recessed, to avoid blocking sightlines to the backyard. “We wanted to be able to step down into the ofuro, so that the volume of the tub would not block natural light,” says Katich.
Feldman Architecture opens up a dark and cramped seaside house with big windows and a healthy dose of wood.
The lower-level bathroom enjoys a door to the outdoors so the family can enter directly after surfing. Green Emser tiles are arranged in a unique alternating pattern, and the shower floor is from Concrete Collaborative.
Ground Level Plan
The studio space looks out into the kitchen, emphasizing the idea of transparency across multifunctional spaces.
Kaviar Collaborative livened up this blank-slate three-bedroom apartment with a pastel palette and custom built-in furniture.
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 Clinton Hill Carriage House by the Brownstone Boys
An LGM wall bed from Resource Furniture is a convenient work-from-home spot. After the pandemic, the Paulas wanted to incorporate plenty of work stations in their home, as before the carriage house, “We had four of us all sitting at the dining table working,” remembers René. “It was super loud, like a trading floor at an investment bank, because all four of us would be talking at the same time.” With desks in the kids’ rooms and two offices, every family member can work in quiet.
The desk folds up and the installation swivels to pull down the bed.
The home enjoys a connection with the surrounding landscape with views from every room that invite the 100-acre site into the interior. “The framed views from each room are a source of pride for us,” says architect Meelena Oleksiuk Turkel. “They illustrate the way in which we design for a specific site, bringing the outdoors into the home and making the most of what the homeowners love about their land.”
After - exterior and new cedar fence
Peka Peka House II
The home was positioned diagonally across the site, along a true east-west axis, allowing main living spaces and window walls to face due south.
The custom slatted wood railings is fitted with discreet flip-down hooks to hang coats. Stairs lead down to a guest space and an additional unit for a future caretaker. An elevator, not visible, also connects the two levels. The Overlap pendant is by Michael Anastassiades for Flos.
Hiroshi Nakamura & NAP created a sunken retreat in Karuizawa, Japan. Its glass lookout allows the residents to study wildflowers blanketing the forest floor.
Hiroshi Nakamura & NAP used 87 translucent bricks to reframe a family’s connection to nature and the city.
The countertop is a custom Concrete Collaborative terrazzo, and the colored flecks nod to the wall tiles.
Michelle White, a senior curator at Houston’s Menil Collection, her husband Haden Garrett, and their nine-year-old son Oliver sit on the porch of their Houston Heights home—a Sears kit home built in the 1920s. The couple worked with local studio Janusz Design to add a new two-story section that includes a laundry area, primary suite, and garage.
Built in 1916, the two-bedroom O’Connor House is one of Frank Lloyd Wright‘s American System-Built Homes.
Stillwater homes are made to prioritize indoor-outdoor living, with walls of windows usually leading to decks and pool areas.
The original layout was very much of the time: a perfect midcentury modern flow, with a closed-off kitchen and a fire put in the floor. “They were cool but impractical spaces,” says Schaer.
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