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The designers re-sized the cabinetry and extended the custom stove hood up to the high ceilings to better balance the proportions of the room. The fronts were kept deliberately minimal, with no hardware.

The ground floor hosts what is currently converted into a colorful children's room, which includes an indoor rock-climbing wall. A bathroom and laundry room lie beyond.

Above the kitchen is an office area, complete with bespoke, angular shelving which doubles as a room divider.

On the outskirts of Grândola—a small Alentejan town in the Setúbal district of Portugal—a dramatic architectural form sits in the vast, arid landscape amidst cork trees and herds of cows. The whitewashed guesthouse is known as Casa da Volta, which translates as "Home of the Return,

The houses have three sets of water pipes that all run under the “smart piers.” The central clean water supply enters the house and is pumped up to the roof, where it is preheated in solar collectors. Drinking water is pumped down to an underwater heat exchanger in the channel outside. Recovered heat is used back inside the homes. The “black” water from the toilets goes directly out to the sewer, but water used in washing machines and dishwashers (“gray” water) also circulates through the heat exchanger. The shower water is upcycled—filtered, disinfected with ultraviolet light, and reused.

"The concrete Clé tiles have light and dark blue colors to match the kitchen, with a white triangles that match the slope of the roof and the color of the sky,

Packed with personality, this retooled shed by Best Practice Architecture might just be the cutest little ADU in Texas.

A custom concrete sink is illuminated with sconces from Apparatus Studio.

Solk thickened the fireplace wall to two feet deep, and packed in storage capabilities around the newly refinished fireplace, which now has large-scale porcelain tile surrounding it.

According to the listing, “Naturvillan's design language was based on following the tapered, pointed triangle-like tops of the conifers. The form gives, up close, a strong visual architecture with a very stable base directly on the mountain. The house then recedes with height where the house blends in among the treetops and harmonizes with the landscape, which from a distance gives a naturally pleasing humble impression.”