Cabin ideas

At this summer house in a Danish forest, the cabin's T-shaped plan branches between existing trees.

"Knowing that it would need to be on the vacation rental market until we retire, we wanted it to be a destination home for families to explore the Bonavista peninsula,

Floor plan of Windhaven by Hoyles Architecture

The kitchen at Taigh Créadha was created as a social space by 56 North Kitchens, who also made the doors, dining table, and bookshelves, all in oak veneer. Vintage Ercol stacking chairs are complemented by a pair sourced secondhand.

The ceilings throughout the home are made out of cross-laminated timber created from antiqued spruce.

The contemporary, minimalist design is constructed almost entirely out of solid wood.

“CLT House is built in a forest clearing in upstate New York. Aiming for a light touch on its natural site, the 2,150-square-foot house was built with cross-laminated-timber (CLT) panels and installed in 11 days,” nARCHITECTS tells us. “The live-edge siding and its uneven weathering with time aims to provide a rustic contrast with the contemporary nature of the prefab build and its modern environmental features: geothermal wells, a radiant floor system, and a solar panel array.”

Builder Nick Maimone drew on his artistic background and the ’60s counterculture movement as he reenvisioned a home set where the Russian River meets the Pacific in Northern California.

Nick rebuilt all the doors and windows from old-growth redwood. The doors have Baldwin mortise locksets.

The exterior of the home is clad in Norway spruce. All of the windows are from Velfac, with the sliders from Schuco.

Stones excavated during the foundation dig were redistributed to level out the yard while simultaneously creating a drainage curtain around the leach field.