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Chris and Erika’s bedroom is downstairs, which gave them access to a larger bathroom and closer proximity to their home office. They think of the three rooms as their own private suite. The painting is by Solk.

In the living area, a wood stove from Danish company Morso warms the space. The steel fireplace surround was crafted in Mount Vernon, Washington, and large aluminum-clad pine windows frame the exterior environment. The flooring is maple.

The ceilings throughout are painted Sherwin Williams "Pure White

“That swoop was my least favorite thing about the house,” admits Fred. “I was looking forward to an angular, Craftsman-type thing. But I said, I’m going to trust Kristin.”

Floor Plan of A Cape House Reborn by HxH Architects

“We pulled apart one volume and staggered it along the buildable area of the property,” says architect Matthew Ahlberg of Portland firm Barrett Made. The home is clad in unfinished cedar, meant to weather over time.

Built on a shale ridge with a 35-foot drop-off, Scott and Julie Pelletier’s house in Maine comprises a succession of simple gables.

The minimalist home's siding will patina to a silvery gray tone.

A small kitchenette comes complete with a cook top and oven. White oak wood flooring is used throughout, as a standard feature.

"We did our best to tuck the buildings into the site—the goal was to get up high on a perch. It was a matter of setting that elevation and working back down with the topography," says architectural designer Riley Pratt.

The cottage is located on a site just over an hour from Gothenburg and two-and-a-half hours from Oslo, Bohuslän was the ideal location. “We immediately fell in love with the slightly hilly site and its location along a narrow dirt road with cows grazing on the other side,” says Helena. “Until then, I had never thought of building a summer house but when we got the chance, we just had to take it. Especially when my old friend Susanna said she could design a house for us.”

An Aria sectional by Six Penny Home anchors the living space, with an oak table by Elsie Green and a Soren pendant light by Pinch above. The homespun blue tablecloth is by March, and the Chelsea Fly tapestry is from Fletcher Rhodes.

Riffing on local farmhouses, architects Patrick Walker and Elizabeth Demetriades covered the 4,000-square-foot house in rough-sawn red cedar and capped it with a standing-seam galvalume roof.

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.

Floor plan of House on a Ridge by Barrett Made

The U-shape of the building now creates an enjoyable outdoor space, where one can soak up the sun while still being sheltered from the wind.

After more than 15 years spent in construction, high school friends Simon Fyall and Richard Egli started to imagine an architecture that blended in with the landscape of British Columbia better than industry-standard buildings. Soon after, the pair founded Blend Projects to build their vision: crisp gabled homes strung together from eight-foot-long cedar-sided glulam sections.