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Floor Plan of Southfield Farm Cabin by Barlis Wedlick Architects

The home is accessible year-round, although snowy winters and road closures make the trip from Seattle a bit longer during the colder months.

Floor Plan of Mökki and Sauna by Kontio

Ana Smud’s studio is in downtown Buenos Aires, yet she also has a home office with built-in bookshelves and a long narrow desk.

Candour is a prefab building system and a tool to customize building components within that system—including walls, floors, facades, and roofs—with a proprietary CAD plug-in. Users of the software can draft a design, determine if it’s feasible, and price it all in one day. Designs are built at Candour’s manufacturing facility in Sunshine, Melbourne.

A splash of dark green paint in the sleeping nook introduces an old world drama to the space. The paint color is Billiard Green from Sherwin Williams. The crochet pendant is from World Market, and the brass bull was an eBay find. The couple's dog Waylon lounges in the pull-out dog bed drawer.

Joe Banuelos, who lived off and on at PorchLight’s prior shelter, is training to become part of its peer mentor program.

“We made it up as we went along,” says Carissa of the down-to-the-studs remodel.