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Working with salvaged and donated materials (and without ferry service), the Stinn Family assembled this dreamy getaway piece by piece.

Floor plan of Casa Keçe by Alix and Onur

The two-unit home has four bedrooms and six bathrooms across its three stories and 4,200 square feet. The climbing wall is located on the only double-height space in the home, on the third floor near the kitchen.

Off the bedroom wing sits a small hillside garden.

The sliding pantry cabinet doubles as a room divider when fully extended, separating the kitchen from the bedrooms.

The house allows space for entertaining as well, and can comfortably seat a few guests in a roughly 160-square-foot sitting area. The resident, a designer, can host clients in this area.

The unit can be configured to allow room for meal preparation around a built-in kitchen.

At 23 years old, self-taught designer Mariah Hoffman set out to craft her own 156-square-foot sanctuary.

Visiting a Manhattan apartment designed by Tim Seggerman is like sitting inside one of Nakashima’s cabinets, a metaphor realized most fully in an ingenious "library"—really a glorified cubby with a banded maple ceiling, conjured from a free space adjacent to the loft bed.

“Material quality and durability were key from the very beginning,” says architect Binke Lenhardt. “So, we found ourselves looking into a material library that was rather unconventional, almost in an engineering way.” The rubber flooring is from Noraplan and the adaptable furniture elements are made from two types of plywood—lightweight poplar plywood and a stronger multiplex birch—both coated with high-pressure laminate.

This ground-floor plan was used as a reference to build the Canadian Castaway Off-Grid Cabin.

Holiday Home Side Elevation

Holiday Home Front Elevation

The floor plan of the Holiday Home.

"We love space, because of the different heights and the light,

The home glows from within at night.

"For us, the cherry on the cake is the height of the entire interior space and how the cozy mezzanine features a skylight that opens to the Dutch skies and stars,

At night, the library transforms into a full bedroom that connects with the bathroom.