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“The fireplace is the one element in the home that was intentionally left untouched,” she interior designer Festa Radoni. “Its simplicity speaks volumes, and the textured blockwork holds a beauty and history that we didn’t want to erase.”

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

Anchoring a multi-family property in Chula Vista is a 1,200-square-foot garage that Ramiro Losada-Amor of Modern Granny Flat transformed into an ADU for Jorge Cuevas Antillón and Ruben Martínez. The garage door is from Coastal Garage Doors.

The home embraces indoor-outdoor living with a large sliding door that serves as its only window. A living room couch by Hubba Hubba (made of mattresses and upholstered fabric) wraps around a TOV Furniture coffee table, anchored by a custom Moroccan rug found on Etsy. The ashtray is by Fundamental Berlin and the mushroom lamp is by Rodolfo Bonetto for Iguzzini.

Rachel and Joe around the kitchen island they had custom built by Tom Adams Woodworking (who also made the custom spice rack above the kitchen backsplash). The chairs are by CB2 and the pan rack was made by repurposing an Umbra shower curtain rod with hooks from Amazon.

The blue painting—by emerging Australian artist

Formerly closed off from the rest of the house, the space now opens to the dining and living room. The countertops are Bianco Velino Brazilian Quartzite, and the backsplash tile is from Fireclay. A row of Herman Miller Comma stools provide extra seating for guests.

The bedroom suite on the second level features a kitchenette for total privacy.

Janine DeMichele Baggett’s secret to nailing the ’90s kitchen look? “Everyone had this pepper jar with peppers you couldn’t eat. It was the forbidden peppers.” Her sense of decor humor runs in the family: “Growing up, my mom had a chicken-themed kitchen. We lived in Georgia, and she’s actually German—not even a farmer. It was just a thing that was funny. It was just random.” Little did Baggett know that the Tuscan rooster would become an icon of the times. “It was really fascinating to me how widespread it truly was, because I also thought maybe it was a Southern thing. No, it was everywhere.”

Note Mansawataphaiboon cooks something up.

Designed as an experiential retreated for the Henrybuilt team, founder and CEO Scott Hudson explains, "We had the idea to stop doing showrooms and to start doing houses that our staff can travel to, and live in, and actually live with the product and learn by experiencing it how to improve it."

Before: A door led to a hallway with the spiral staircase, while the bathroom was separated into a vanity, and toilet and shower combo behind a door to the right.

The designers found OSB without traditional stampings of construction-grade OSB and clad the interior with it for an organic but utilitarian texture. “ I didn’t want anything in the space to be fake,” says Castillero. “I didn’t want it to pretend to be anything it wasn’t.”

Floor plan of Forest Lane by Emily Kopp