Central Coast Ideas

Boyer added a skylight over the stairwell to bring light into the middle of the home.

“There was no way out to the backyard from the main living space” before, says Boyer, who swapped out the windows for a large sliding glass door.

A look at the 30-room Post Ranch Inn, which contains no right angles.

The Treehouse, also part of the Post Ranch Inn, features Cor-ten panels.

For the Butterfly cabin, which is part of the Post Ranch Inn, Muennig chose materials that age gracefully when exposed to the elements. He regularly uses Cor-Ten steel, a group of steel alloys that form a stable rust-like appearance when battered by wind and rain.

The thousand-foot cliffs and precipitous mountains of Big Sur, California, have a long history of attracting contrarian thinkers. Taking cues from the flora, fauna, and rocky cliffs of the region, California, Mickey Muennig's brand of organic architecture doesn't stop with the terrain.

The structure sits lightly on a stone patio that cuts into the hillside site.

Native grasses, such as red fescue and California oat, dot the landscape surrounding the house.

Pierangelo Caimi and Constanza Ríos’s family home in Puertecillo, Chile, requires a balancing act. The cliffside residence showcases broad views to the south through glass walls in the open-plan living spaces.

Framing sweeping mountainous views, the Kappe-designed pool, also original to the home, now features new equipment, plaster, tile, and coping.

Set amongst native California Live Oak trees in the Verdugo Woodlands, the midcentury offers a quiet city escape, all while being conveniently located to downtown Los Angeles.