The home’s new half-bath is tiled in Lili Tile, with a vanity sink from Wayfair, a countertop and backsplash of Silestone Quartz, a faucet from Kingston Brass and wall sconces over sink and toilet by Hinkley.
A terrazzo tile backsplash provides a lightly textured backdrop for the brass faucet and warm wood cabinetry.
In 1968, Danish architect and designer Arne Jacobsen designed the 112 faucet and mixer series and a line of in-wall accessories for Vola. In 2014, the Danish company updated the classic design by adding a deep copper finish.
The custom cedar tub, fabricated by Dovetail, elegantly fits into the master bathroom.
A Carrara marble counter and backsplash, concrete floors, a frameless mirror, and white cabinets keep the look seamless and consistent in the bathroom.
The headboard is a custom fabrication from a live oak felled on the property, made by DeVos Custom Woodworking and Jobe Fabrications and in collaboration with JCA. The headboard “brings so much texture and life into this tiny room,” says Corral. Custom steel shelves are poised below, with a sconce from Serena and Lily mounted atop.
The Anza Airstream was designed to feel more open than other trailers, with little upper cabinetry.
Working with his father, Anton designed and built a custom loft for the boys in the upstairs addition.
Not only is green Daniel’s favorite color, but the green in the sun room also references the greening of the copper cathedral room. “It sort of pulls the outside in, in a way,” says Fohring.
The couple love the home’s privacy and the way it interacts with the environment. They describe certain rooms as feeling like being inside a treehouse with views out to the surrounding forest canopy.
Throughout the home, floor-to-ceiling windows and doors frame views and allow for indoor/outdoor living.
Midcentury This Century by D2 Interieurs floor plan
Homeowner and interior designer Julie Crosby worked with developer Soheil Nakhshab to transform a rundown midcentury property in the coastal Del Mar neighborhood of San Diego. The 5,400-square-foot, four-bedroom residence incorporates a natural palette and tall windows.
Mexico City architects Ambrosi | Etchegaray installed a 150,000-liter water tank that holds rainwater in this eco-friendly holiday home in Tepoztlán, xxx. The water in the tank is heated solar energy when the water for the showers and pools require heating.
This Western Australian home by Perth-based Mountford Architects harvests it’s own rainwater for laundry, toilets and graywater irrigation, photovoltaic roof panels for electricity generation and a vegetable garden.
This family beach home in The Hamptons hamlet of Montauk is equipped with sustainable features such as a prefabricated foundation, a geothermal heating and cooling system are buried below ground and nontoxic finishes.
Co-founders of French design studio Cutwork,
Michele Karpé and her husband, John Andrews, spent years dreaming about building a retreat on their remote Santa Ynez property.
The second-story studio overlooks oak, maple, and birch trees to the east. The Ypperlig table lamps are by Hay for IKEA, and the desk and floors are made of Viroc, a composite material formed from cement and wood fiber.
The use of consistent and contrasting flooring minimizes disorientation, and decks are accessed via zero-step thresholds. “More and more, I’m having talks with clients about flexible homes,” Wylie says. “They want homes that will work now and for future needs.”
Frustrated by the lack of universally designed home plans on the market and wanting to design homes that could be “visitable”by everyone, regardless of ability, Carol Sundstrom of Röm Architecture Studio in Washington State launched Nest Home Plans. Her single-story Vera plan has no-step entries, an open-concept layout, and 36-inch-wide interior doors, plus options like lower countertops, knee clearance at the kitchen island and at the sinks, and curbless showers.