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In the library, tucked beneath the renovated staircase, is a reading nook featuring cushion fabric by Sarah Morris for Maharam. The pendant is by Louis Weisdorf for Gubi, and the sconce is by Bernard Schottlander for DCW éditions.

The park includes a greenhouse embedded with a tile-lined passageway that leads to a massive atrium with a water feature and a stained-glass ceiling.

Will and Megan Meeker transformed this 1924 corner store in the Yolanda Station section of San Anselmo, California, into their dream home after a challenging two-year renovation.

Storage keeps the 180-square-foot space tidy, and the couple were inspired to embrace a minimalist and natural aesthetic after a recent trip to Japan.

The couple installed Marvin windows throughout the cabin, and chose a Nychair X and ottoman by Takeshi Nii for the view.

Nova Oeiras is not a gated community: anyone can wander through its parks, towers, and blocks. From the beginning, it was conceived with a central café and supermarket, and over time it has added other amenities like public tennis courts. Now protected patrimony, the complex’s facades and landscapes, luckily, can’t be changed.

“We never dreamed of a huge house,” says TK. “We always knew if we built something, it would be small, but unique.”

Christine did not want views to overwhelm the interior, so the landscape is visible only from select vantages.

Located in a pre-war building, the floor-through unit had a fairly generic layout: two bedrooms on either end and a cloistered kitchen and living area in the center. “Everyone just wants to hang out by the windows,” Graci says of these fairly common floor plans, noting that the center becomes dead space. She turned one of the bedrooms into this living room and office, removing a wall between it and the kitchen to create a free-flowing public area of the apartment.

He also built the record player stand using a console he salvaged from a set.

Most of the renovation’s budget went to the kitchen, which was fabricated by 360 Kitchen. The base cabinetry is finished in Richlite, a paper composite with a warm feel; the upper cabinets are done up in Shinnoki’s Milk Oak; the sink fixture is Dornbracht; and the induction cooktop, refrigerator, and oven are Fisher & Paykel. For more counter space, Graci designed two peninsulas that extend from the wall. She followed the proportions of the arched living room windows to make the space feel more cohesive.

"I believe that if there’s a place for everything then nothing is out of place, and I’ve tried to incorporate that into a lot of the furniture design and functionality,