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"One visit over the winter, and we drove up to find four feet of snow covering the driveway and stairs down to the cabin,

Originally a scullery, this garden room connects to the back of the kitchen. The grooved timber wall conceals a powder room door.

Northcote House by Mitsuori Architects / kitchen

The original wood columns and beams create a more open feel and flood the spaces with natural light. "The kitchen looks out over the courtyard, which acts as a light well and provides ventilation,

Built in 1963, the Flansburgh House remains an architectural gem within Lincoln, Mass.

Just outside the apartment is a circular courtyard area. Lekien moved the kitchen from the rear of the apartment to the front so that it runs along the curved wall and connects to the outdoors.

The architect dressed the living room with a soft palette of cream and blush tones. The parquet flooring offers subtle pattern and more texture for the space.

The bedroom displays more existing wood ceiling beams and a storage loft above the bathroom.

This double-story addition to a detached Victorian house in Northcote creates a bridge between the existing building and its deep rear garden.

side facade view

That’s how Milla Novo and her husband, Nigel Nowotarski, came to live in the top of what was once a chapel. As you step into their apartment, large arched windows hint at its ecclesiastical past, but the couple’s eye-catching textiles and artworks—set against pristine white walls—make the biggest impression.

Beside a simple but spacious kitchen, the living area is meant to be warm and casual.

The three arms of the Apfel House stretch out to catch the best views of Ranco Lake and the Andes Mountains.

Thompson, a founding principal of Assembledge+, had recently participated in a Los Angeles Magazine project to imagine solutions for those who lack housing in the city. Their notion was for public agencies to subsidize building ADUs in backyards along alleyways, dovetailing with existing alley revitalization initiatives

Rossi did not carry the dividing wall between the bedroom and living room all the way up to the ceiling, so as not to break up the treatment up there, instead designing the wall as a custom storage and display unit.