Bedroom

The kitchen now has an island with the sink, to create more work surface for Kwame and Tamara. A Bertazzoni stove has a Wolf hood.

Dabito says he had to get creative to maximize the home’s small plot of land. The entire bottom floor is dedicated to entertaining, with two bedrooms upstairs.

Insulating materials like this wooden pocket door help optimize the efficiency of the Trane heat pump.

Dabito and his husband started out looking for a house to flip, but then “decided it would be way more special and fun to build our dream home from the ground up,” he says.

Dabito’s design combines a little bit of everything like his host city. “You'll see tons of arches everywhere, and we had a lot of fun experimenting with scale, tile patterns, and different materials,” he says.