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Upstairs, the primary bedroom presents a designer bath and vibrant custom wardrobe.

Seven Crittall windows span across the front wall, drawing plenty of natural light inside.

Architect Minwook Choi’s 710-square-foot Seroro House rises from a tiny urban lot in Seoul that had long been neglected because of its challenging size.

The first phase of the remodel enlarged the footprint in the main bathroom, which pairs marble hex tile on the floor with Fireclay tile on the walls. The mirrors were $506 from Rejuvenation, and the sconces are by Nino Shea Design ($660 for three).

Perched below the Griffith Observatory and overlooking Hollywood is a lush lot crowned with four towering olive trees and a 1965 home designed by modernist architect Craig Ellwood. When a young couple purchased the home in 2018, it needed substantial work. For a historic restoration, they called on Woods + Dangaran, a local firm fluent in modernist history. The team completed a meticulous restoration of the home while keeping original components like the linear shape, open plan, and expansive windows. One of the most striking features is the original koi pond (a feature deemed so essential that its preservation was a condition of escrow) that is now crossed via a bridge that leads to a new lap pool—perhaps the biggest intervention on the property.

As images from the book California Captured make clear, the swimming pool at the rear of the home was a later addition; the glass-ensconced living room originally had a protruding deck like those in the front of the house.

In the kitchen, custom cabinetry is adorned with statement-making, half-circle bronze pulls.

Founder Jean-François de La Chaize d’Aix hired architect Jules Hardouin-Mansart and landscape architect André Le Nôtre to design Château de La Chaize roughly 350 years ago. To carry out the recent restorations without undermining the château’s historical integrity, owner Christophe Gruy called on Didier Repellin, head architect of the French Historical Monuments.