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Every inch of the home is designed to accommodate the family's needs with ample hidden storage keeping spaces clutter free, complemented by open storage with those items more frequently reached for such as books to read and ingredients to cook with.

Pablo designed his family’s home to disrupt as little of the landscape as possible.

"Expansive windows and skylights usher in a dance of light and shadow, imbuing the interiors with a majestic west coast splendor,

After the Concrete, Washington, house where he grew up burned down, New York architect Jes Paone rebuilt it as a vacation home for himself and his family. With no original plans to work with, Jes relied on a few site cues but mostly his memory.

An artist by trade, and gardener by passion, Allison Paschke commissioned Providence-based architecture firm 3SIXØ to build a modest cottage that would allow her to reconnect with nature. She landscaped the home’s lush gardens herself.

The new prefab unit is located just a few meters from the main home—a thatched-roof cottage that dates back to the 1950s. “The dark color of the cladding blends into the dark hedges in the garden, so the unit doesn’t attract too much attention,” says Vriesema.

The renovation updated a pair of staircases—one to the basement, one to the upper level—from their steep, unsafe angle to one that is now up to code. In the dining room, the pendant by Hans-Agne Jakobsson is from Karoline’s family cabin in Germany.

Despite the space’s relatively small size, its galley layout, with countertops on each side, easily accommodates multiple cooks.

Quartz countertops and two-by-eight-inch subway tile with tan grout (on the backsplash) complement the tone of the birch cabinetry and ash shelves in the kitchen.