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"A lot of people thought we were crazy to put in a fireplace in a Florida home, but the biggest surprise for my wife and me has been how much we use it,

The space has concrete floors and glass block windows, and double doors lead out onto the street.

The dining area is just off the living room. Cutouts keep the air and energy flowing.

Glass panels in the hallway frame outdoor views and create an expansive sense of the property.

A young couple, their son, and two rescue beagles model a grounded lifestyle from their Venice, California tiny home.

Approach to house — the front porch wraps to the west to link together the main entry door and the mud room entrance.

Leather sling chairs from CB2 surround a dining table by Joel Duprass.

Lining the roof of a subterranean section, two reflection pools provide a canvas for reflecting the structure's concrete and glass form. A walkway divides the color-dyed water, ending at a staircase that leads down into a sunken courtyard.

The monolithic brick home in Mexico City by Esrawe Studio looks imposing from the street, but its enormous pivoting door opens to a courtyard that feels like a lush oasis.

Organized around a central courtyard, the home’s three modules are oriented to maximize views of downtown Marfa; 20-foot-deep piers drilled below each concrete footing root the structure to the site and help stabilize it against West Texas winds, which can reach 120 miles per hour.

For the last 20 years, the Topanga Art House has been owned by Liza Lou, the recipient of a MacArthur Genius Award, and her partner, graphic artist Mick Haggerty. Here is a look inside the main residence, which features cathedral ceilings and polished concrete floors.

The home’s original living and dining rooms were updated with custom cabinetry and new fir floors. The living room sofa, coffee table, and lounge chair are from Blu Dot.

The curvy shape of this pink sofa gives it a fun, playful quality.

A look at the delightful living room.

Built with a steel frame, the Frost House features panels of styrofoam between aluminum sheets for the exterior walls and styrofoam between plywood for the roof and floors. Bold, primary colors accentuate its geometric form. Shortly after Karen Valentine and Bob Coscarelli purchased the home in 2016, they began to unearth nuggets of information about its pedigree. Their realtor had provided a brochure that identified the prefab as designed by architect Emil Tessin for the now-defunct Alside Homes Corporation based out of Akron, Ohio, which had held a patent for the structure’s aluminum paneling. Their new neighbors provided a stack of Alside Homes sales materials, floor plans of various models, and even a script that had been written for salespeople during home tours. They determined that the Frost House had been a sales model for the company, and that Tessin had been the son of Emil Albert Tessin, the legal guardian of Florence Knoll.

Parachute founder Ariel Kaye

The Bee Home can be set up nearly anywhere outdoors. SPACE10 and Tanita Klein hope the open-source designs will raise awareness around bees’ impact on the environment and our daily lives.

In a seaside holiday home in Taiwan, two goals were the focus of the design: a dominant pink palette, reflecting the homeowner's favorite color, and a feline-friendly interior for her three cats. The pink hues are offset by the easy-to-clean, dynamic terrazzo surfaces, and the pink is given depth and texture thanks to a mineral paint.