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"My wish for the bathroom was for it to feel like walking along a creek through the Tasmanian wilderness,

Spiekermann and Dulkinys agree that their house—the first they’ve built from the ground up—is definitely different.

The Vipp kitchen makes use of a modular concept with four basic forms: island, island with seating, wall, and tall modules.

Set in a heritage brick building in Montreal, this apartment maintained the brick wall in the kitchen to evoke the building's industrial heritage. The brick was painted white to brighten the space.

Top 9 Kitchens of 2020: The nominees for this year’s Dwell Design Awards are the epitome of style and function.

The team created an open floor plan for the interior, where the kitchen opens to the dining and the living areas. Concrete flooring lends a soothing quality to the rooms, where there's a built-in concrete bench that also acts as a plinth for the fireplace.

Yang Yeo and his girlfriend Ching Ian relax on the back stoop of their renovated and radically updated Singapore shophouse—an archetypal building type in this busy port city. “Shophouses brought back memories of our childhood,” says Yeo.

The existing cottage has been on the site for “a long time” with various extensions and refurbishments taking place ad hoc between the 1930s and 1990s, including the garage and utility room at the rear that has been replaced by the newest extension. Like many typical cottages in the area, the cottage is built from local stone with timber shutter windows.

"We used three-quarter-inch Baltic birch plywood with a water-based polyurethane finish for all of the custom woodwork,

Beige Caesarstone panels wrap the doorways on the main floor, and also the counters in the kitchen.

When architects Thomas Karsten and Alexandra Erhard toured the raw industrial space, they were struck by how much light streamed in, a gift bestowed by large windows and the rare presence of a private patio.