The door opens directly into the main living space, where a Room & Board sofa joins a chair and ottoman from West Elm. The wood-burning stove is from Morsø.
Built in 1965 by noted Palm Springs architect Stan Sackley for local lawyer James Holloway as a "Playboy Pad" (and featured in Playboy magazine the following year) the house has been updated from top to bottom with top of the line finishes while retaining its unique mid-century features. Considered to be among one of the "best houses in Palm Springs," this home is a true treasure and the ultimate get-a-way...whether you are a playboy or not.
At the BauLinder Has by Hufft, a black vertical wood screen elegantly separates the kitchen and main living area.
The living and dining room look out to the central courtyard, promoting indoor/outdoor living. Here, five doors slide into a pocket in the wall to create a nearly 23-foot-wide opening on one side looking into the garden. Another set on the opposite side enhances cross ventilation.
In this sustainable home in Silicon Valley, the primary suite opens to a deck and fern garden with large, sliding glass doors.
Subtle, subdued tones in the cabinetry, flooring, and walls provide the perfect backdrop for colorful works of art—or in the case of the kitchen, a custom chandelier.
The garden library that architect George King designed to accompany a 17th-century limestone house and its surrounding gardens in England is clad with charred timber and large glass doors that slide open and connect the structure to the outdoors.
Stone walls visually connect inside and out. Expansive glass doors enhance effect.
Whidbey Island Farm Retreat
Whidbey Island Farm Retreat
Whidbey Island Farm Retreat
Whidbey Island Farm Retreat
Whidbey Island Farm Retreat
The kitchen is the heart of the home and features a nearly 20-foot-long Tasmanian Oak workbench.
Concreteworks countertops, a Wolf range, Kallista sink, and Boffi faucet also fill the space.
Horizontal slabs of bluestone and vertical hardwood slats on the exterior of the house.
Saddle Peak House, Topanga Canyon by Sant Architects. Interiors by Context Gallery.
This two-bedroom, two-bathroom standard Hygge Supply model was built on a corner lot in Traverse City, Michigan.
From the outside, the screen reveals an earthy patina that is in natural dialogue with the wine silo.
Set on an east-west axis, the home stays cool with shading south-facing glass, minimal west-facing glass, and operable windows that allow for natural ventilation. Energy recovery ventilators also bring fresh air into the home.
A Simple Plan
A Marmol Radziner–designed prefab house, trucked onto a remote Northern California site, takes the pain out of the construction process.
Unlike other new houses in the Garden Oaks/Oak Forest neighborhood of Houston, the Gottschalks embraced a simple, functional pavilion.
Saddle Peak Residence by AUX Architecture
Taking advantage of the sloping site, the architects designed the three-level Watermill House to appear as a single-story home from the street.
A modern interpretation of the traditional dogtrot home, Camp Baird comprises two cabins placed along an L-shaped orientation. An elongated, solar-heated lap pool runs the length of the south-facing side, alongside an expansive ipe deck that measures nearly 1,600 square feet.
Framed by floor-to-ceiling glass, the bright blue front door adds a pop of color to the facade.
Building with Cor-Ten steel—weathering steel's nom de plume—is a bit like watching a painting slowly come to life over time. Exposure to the elements adds textured hues of red and orange to the material until it steps into a character completely its own. From the Dwell archive, we bring you nine Cor-Ten steel homes with facades that will continue to shift through shades of ochre, amber, rust, and sienna.
The one-story homes blend seamlessly into the background due to a palette of basalt, cement, and imported African wood.
Cedar, glass, and concrete combine in this minimalist pool house that draws inspiration from Mies van der Rohe’s 1929 Barcelona Pavilion. The pool house, built into a mountainside west of Montreal and designed by Halifax–based MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple Architects, employs board-formed concrete for the home's expressive exterior.
An exercise in simplicity, the Sonoma weeHouse consists of two steel-framed volumes with ipe interiors, oiled oak cabinetry, and massive sliding glass walls that overlook valley views.
An interior courtyard is covered by trellised shading above, filtering light into the living spaces.
The contemporary home is a beautiful take on desert modernism.
Wild Lilac is set on the foothills of the San Bernardino Mountains, far removed from the glitz of Los Angeles. LaHabra Santa Barbara Mission Finish stucco was used for the exterior to protect the home from strong sun.
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