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Jason and Laura Miller-Smith tapped Cover Architecture and EEK Studio to update their Buff and Hensman midcentury home with custom casework, ribbed glass, and a grand fireplace while staying true to the original plans.

In the kitchen, an “Alpine Mist’ Caesarstone slab tops Alder cabinets. A mint green custom steel hood conceals a Vent-a-Hood insert, and Ann Sacks ‘Context’ tile in Frost covers the backsplash.

Metal accents, like the steel awning and railing, sync with the new metal roof.

Keep founders Austin and Kotono Watanabe revived a compact home in Minneapolis with a dazzling kitchen, an all-electric upgrade, and a clerestory “scoop.”

The covered porch is another place that people can work, brainstorm, or have break-out sessions. The company’s motto is affixed to the boundary wall, reading: “If it tells a story, it’s art.” Stories are about connecting, says Jhanvi, as is architecture.

Custom kitchen cabinetry with a stone countertop is made of the same ash wood sustainably harvested in Canada.

"We wanted to create one, if you can call it, a great room,

Chandigarh Chairs by Pierre Jeanneret furnish the living space beyond the double-height entrance doors.

The owner and architect chose to outfit almost every aspect of the studio in Douglas fir plywood.

"We bought very little and made as much as we could,

Even the windows can be concealed with custom plywood coverings.

Colter added an “assembly line” of light portholes throughout the studio as an affordable blend of style and function.

The screening room and living area is off the kitchen, and opens to the garden.

Floor Plan of Camp Altezza by Amy Pigliacampo

In the midst of the pandemic, a family leverages industry connections and modular construction to quickly rebuild a cliffside getaway on a fire-ravaged site in the Kogelberg Biosphere Reserve.