Dream Home Ideas

Drought-tolerant plants create a lovely landscape which frames the home’s classic midcentury profile.

Air Force atomic vintage dining chairs, and a custom dining table made from oak and safety glass.

A few steps lead up to the dining room area.

Perched on a small hilltop, the Sondern-Adler House exhibits the tenets of Usonian design.

A two-sided stone fireplace anchors divides the living room area

Reclaimed Douglas fir lines the 11-foot-tall ceilings, while stone-tiled floors with built-in radiant heating are located underfoot.

EcoCraft Homes is a Pittsburgh area resource-efficient Smart Home builder of super energy-efficient homes. Founded in 2012, EcoCraft Homes is a family-owned organization with a unique building philosophy in the Pittsburgh area that emphasizes energy efficient homes that can be built in as little as 90 days. Their mission is to build smarter, greener homes that are 100% Energy Star-compliant, and their manufacturing process is so advanced that our homes can be built to achieve net zero energy consumption for all of their heating, cooling and electricity needs.

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Part modern farmhouse, part gallery, this vacation home just outside Tahoe National Forest is composed of four distinct gable forms separated by square, stone-clad volumes. It was designed by Tahoe-based architect Clare Walton. The interiors were a collaborative effort between the owner, who is an artist and art collector, and interior designer Brittany Haines of ABD Studio. In the kitchen, a custom-made, six-person breakfast banquet, crafted from walnut, is organized around a table that features cold roll steel table top and a turned wood base that has been ebonized black.

A house of glass in the Sonoran Desert.

This house in Three River, California, has no Internet or television, which makes it ideal for a digital detox.