Dream Homes

The west-facing outdoor patio is protected by deep roof overhangs lined with southern yellow pine.

The Coles and their children love hitting the beach, just four blocks away.

The office of Inwood Place offers a quiet reprieve from the hubbub of daily life.

Set on a half-acre lot, this updated 1963 midcentury home is located in the heart of La Cañada Flintridge in the Los Angeles area.

A Restoration Hardware sofa and vintage rug in the living room.

The rear garden looks into the kitchen and dining space right through the internal courtyard and beyond.

Throughout the home, the floors were replaced with light hardwood to make the space feel more modern and open. Baer brought in a MBH Sectional in White Linen and a Hotel Collection metal-and-stone coffee table alongside the Sams International Atlas Woolen Rug. In this space, the Raskinds added a touch of Hollywood glamour with the red velvet midcentury chairs. They finished off the look by painting the original fireplace with Cover of Night by Dunn Edwards and added hexagonal tiles at the base.

After a year of searching, San Francisco transplants Liz Armistead and Bill Broome found their dream home—a 1,400-square-foot ranch house in Austin’s Travis Heights neighborhood. The residence was outdated, but the 400-year-old live oak tree on the back of the property was just too enticing to pass up. They fell in love with its potential and reached out to Stephanie and Ryan Lemmo, the principals of Lemmo Architecture and Design, for a full remodel and contemporary master suite addition.

Cantilevered out over the hillside the residence, which also serves as the couple's primary residence, is threaded between the trees, anchored by its concrete foundation which stops just short of the tree’s roots.

When tasked with designing a house for a family of three that was relocating from Santa Barbara to the small beach town of Carpinteria, California, architects Brett Woods and Joseph Dangaran channeled midcentury architects Joseph Eichler and Cliff May. Though the house is new, it clearly takes inspiration from the post-and-beam construction that those figures helped establish as the status quo at the time.