862 T C Jester Blvd.

Cherry cabinets connect with the rest of the house and the built-in desk height was raised to be more comfortable.

Farrow & Ball French Gray covers the kitchen cabinetry, fabricated by Toulouse St. Millwork, walls, ceiling, and stove hood. The counters are Arabescato honed marble.

Suzanne’s bridge and book clubs meet around the dining table in the cottage instead of in the larger house, whose open layout makes such gatherings problematic. “There was no place where I could seal us off,” Suzanne says. “So now I use the cottage for game playing, and we can enjoy ourselves and know that we’re not inconveniencing Brooks.”

Warwas created a second-floor roof deck in the void left by the TK.

Clad on two sides by an ipe rainscreen, the new ADU is connected to the house by a deck. To further ensure an easy flow between the two buildings, designer Ben Warwas set the slider by Western Window Systems at a diagonal beneath the overhang created by the second floor.

A glimpse inside the limestone-clad steam shower in the master suite. The walnut slat walls hide storage with cubbies for towels.

Black walnut surrounds the U-shaped master closet.

The Patton New Century House treads lightly on the land while providing wide-open living spaces.

JJ Joubert

House Proud: Sylvain Duquette in front of his award-winning home.

The 1941 Portland residence has nearly 7,000 square feet of living space, complete with custom built-ins, tongue-and-groove siding, and city views.

A dressing room continues the high-contrast theme with stone flooring and blonde wood fittings.

The home features original wood-paneled closets with Japanese-style sliding doors.

At night, light coming through the wall of original steel-framed windows illuminates the pool area.

“This sink is one of the craziest things I've done in my whole career,” says Kaplan, who had his long-time stone fabricator build it from scratch, crafted with mitered pieces of marble fit together so the veining runs through uninterrupted in “beautiful waterfalls,” and the infinity drain is tiled out of view.

The Japanese bathroom is well lit by many windows. The home's palette of Hokkaido Cedar wood, concrete floors and grey-textured walls is condensed into this intimate space.