Exterior

The garage adds 100 square feet of living space, plus there is a large backyard.

The 500-square-foot home is designed for empty backyards in Silicon Valley. Abodu imagines the units serving as rentals, or housing for recent graduates or aging loved ones.

The living and dining room look out to the central courtyard, promoting indoor/outdoor living. Here, five doors slide into a pocket in the wall to create a nearly 23-foot-wide opening on one side looking into the garden. Another set on the opposite side enhances cross ventilation.

The SOLO House’s main source of energy is the sun. One side of the structure is lined with solar panels that help power the house.

An award-winning, modern masterpiece inspired by Neutra

Architect Fred Fisher’s California residence recalls family memories of la dolce vita.

A 305-square foot addition on the south side of the cabin accommodates a dining area complete with sliders to the lake. The cabin is 2,665 square feet, including the new roof deck atop the addition. New, large windows afford gracious views of the lake from the living room and primary suite.

California pepper trees, grasses, and sage are low-maintenance, low-water plants that also are low-allergen.

Design, Bitches turns a typical Atwater Village home into a lush hideaway with a new, cedar-clad guesthouse.

Metal-framed glass doors slide open and connect the covered terrace to the open-plan kitchen, dining, and living space.

The cypress pine–clad terrace warms the cooler texture of the board-formed concrete and galvanized steel exterior siding.

Chickens foraging in an enclosed garden with vertical planters.

Influenced by Southern California’s Case Study House program, designer Bob Butler conceived a luminous residence and guest house on a sloping lot in Nashville that originally held a red-brick ranch-style duplex. Western red cedar lines the walkway from the carport to the entrance. The Globe lights are from West Elm.

Cole worked with two landscape companies, Sydney Organic Gardens and Pepo Botanic Design, to create the plant and vegetable gardens and other permaculture features.

Project Name: Seafoam 2010

The home’s charred-cedar rain screen facade blends in with the forested 15-acre site.

Wedge by Wheelhaus

Jenesys Buildings offers three different houses that are designed to comply with Vancouver’s laneway housing regulations.

The exterior of the three-level home is clad in Kayu wood.