The living room is arranged on the second floor to create a sunny and comfortable environment.
Indot, an interior design firm in Taiwan, designed this suspended enclosure for a client's four cats. The wood frame and interior elements of the cat house mesh with the rest of the home's interior finishes, while the glass ensures the installation doesn't convey too much visual weight.
BFDO Architects’ House for Booklovers and Cats has a bookcase with a built-in catwalk.
The Inside Out residence has narrow, sheltered ledges along its perimeter where cats can nap in the sun.
The couple’s cats—Chepe and Pacho—doze while Nigel works in another sitting area (below). The chairs are from HK Living.
Living, dining, and kitchen spaces flow into one another in the soaring great room. Here, the Sacramento firm placed new, polished concrete slabs over the original ones to alleviate unsightly cracks.
The master bedroom; the painting is by Radcliffe Bailey.
Rich, dark concrete panels and colorfully dispersed windows wrap the exterior in varying permutations.
Contemporary furnishings from Muuto and Matter, as well as vintage pieces by Adrian Pearsall, add splashes of color to the couple’s cat-friendly living room. The Bollo chair is by Andreas Engesvik and Fogia and the Flowerfield pouf is by Baum und Pferdgarten from Common Seating. The custom ottoman and media cabinet are by Studio Natio, while the Flotation chandelier is by Ingo Maurer.
The House for Booklovers and Cats by BFDO Architects
The "Feline Sofa" from Hiromatsu Furniture can be purchased directly from the company and seen on display at the tourism center in Okawa.
With a wall mount kit and select blocks, the pieces can be attached to the wall.
The black matte steel ship’s ladder was designed by Mickus to have open risers and bent-plate tread that forms a honeycomb pattern and fabricated locally. “We wanted it to be a much more open object,” says Mickus, so as not to block light or views. “The design makes it almost invisible when you're looking straight through it.”
Johan built the stairs himself. Marble for the kitchen was sourced from a quarry 10 minutes away, as were the limestone floors.
Woven into a stand of redwoods on Jason Titus and Nerija Sinkevičiūtė-Titus’s property in the Santa Cruz Mountains, a tree house by San Francisco designer/artist Jay Nelson gives the couple and their three boys a new perspective on the forest.
Steel cables inserted into rope keep the suspension bridge taut. By primarily using salvaged redwood, Nelson achieved a visual continuity with the landscape.
Woven into a stand of redwoods on Jason Titus and Nerija Sinkevičiūtė-Titus’s property in the Santa Cruz Mountains, a tree house by San Francisco designer/artist Jay Nelson gives the couple and their three boys a new perspective on the forest.
The freestanding tub in the guest suite bathroom sits beneath a four-foot square skylight.
A hinoki cypress grows in the front courtyard between the garage and the main entrance.
Rick's advice for renovators: "Pay for great lighting. It should never be an afterthought. In addition, pick a couple of key features that make your home stand out. We chose high ceilings and great windows."
Homeowners Rick Campbell and Lucy Wilcox wanted the style of their home to allow a clean and minimal backdrop for their vintage furniture and accessory collection and emphasize their panoramic views of the Pacific Ocean.
Inside, the home has been designed as a fun space to bring the family together—including the installation of a blue slide that connects the two levels of the home.
Near the front door, charred oak treads float on a blackened steel stringer to the master suite and on to the roof.
Inspired by LivingHomes’ RK2 model, this custom prefab-hybrid home in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, was made for actor Will Arnett by Plant Prefab.
By combining a prefabricated recycled steel super-structure with concrete walls and insulated metal panels, architects Pamela and Hector Magnus built this stunning, charcoal-hued house with expansive second floor windows.
Iceland prefab pioneers Tryggvi Thorsteinsson and Erla Dögg Ingjaldsdóttir of Minarc built this Culver City family home with mnmMOD – a customizable, locally manufactured building system of prefabricated panels the duo designed, which minimizes energy consumption and reduces a home’s carbon footprint. Made with a blend of 30 percent recycled steel and cradle-to-cradle certified extruded polystyrene, mnmMOD components can be assembled with just a screw gun.
A modern farmhouse outside Tahoe National Forest stands as a vacation home and gallery for the owner’s art. Designed by architect Clare Walton, Martis Camp House consists of four gable forms divided by stone-clad volumes. Inside, the spaces are a collaboration between the owner, an artist and art collector, and interior designer Brittany Haines of ABD Studio. A departure from the owner’s main residence that exudes a more traditional style, the summer and winter getaway is teeming with bespoke furniture, vintage finds, and personal art.
The home’s front façade features an anodized aluminum and glass curtain wall by Kawneer that's framed by Vic West black corrugated metal panels. The board-formed concrete on the exterior enables passive solar absorption, allowing optimal heat retention on cold winter days. The metal and concrete exterior cladding offers cohesive dialogue with the neighboring industrial sheds and commercial buildings.
The residents use either the black steel staircase or a glassed-in elevator by Wittur to get around the house.