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Gordon’s Creek, a brackish waterway that connects to the larger James River. While the home is sited on a waterfront lot, the property is not within the FEMA 100-year floodplain and thus, flood insurance is not mandatory.

McFarlane wanted to create opportunities for the client to experience the "intimate moments

Even as the square footage of this cottage in Fayston, Vermont, shrank in response to budget constraints, architect Elizabeth Herrmann remained focused on making the space feel warm and functional for a family of four and their dog and cat. "I think the trick to making small spaces feel much larger is to design the experience of being there,

In the living room, two shades of gray paint from Sherwin-Williams complement the upholstered furnishings from Knoll.

New wood cladding, dyed black, was fit to the house's original frame.

"The client’s goals were to create an open and light-filled home that maximized views of the Coachella Valley below and the Santa Rosa mountains to the south and west," says designer Stuart Silk Architects. Thunderbird Heights Residence enjoys a fluid connection between the primary indoor rooms and the outdoor terraces both for entertaining and casual outdoor living.

When the blinds are up, the owners can take in the Old Southwest neighborhood from their bed, a custom design.

“We’re probably just fifty or sixty feet off the road, but you’re not even aware of it. You don’t feel like you’re in the middle of a city,” says Peter. The sculpted terrain partially blocks outsiders’ views. Automatic shades by Lutron do the rest.

From a distance, Peter and Turkey Stremmel’s hyper-angular home in Reno, Nevada, resembles nothing so much as a mountain made of metal, but upon closer inspection, it reveals itself as a structure that is deeply influenced by its surroundings. Its fragmented forms, designed by architecture firm OPA, are inspired by the irregular geometries in nature.

His carvings, including figures and airplanes, are scattered throughout the property.

Buenos Aires–based architect and furniture designer Alejandro Sticotti combined clean lines and a handmade aesthetic at his beach house in Uruguay. The home is made up of two stacked boxes built from steel and board-formed concrete and wrapped in glass and tropical hardwood. Surrounded by a fence in the coastal town of La Pedrera, it is a sanctuary within a sanctuary.

The property also includes a heated pool and an Airstream pool house/guest suite.

The primary goal of the renovation was to open up the interior and maximize the views.

Each of Nelson Treehouse’s structures is uniquely tailored to its site.

The far end of Hammock Haven includes a covered deck with two hammocks.

The Skihouse’s two-story living room includes a fireplace for warming yourself after a long day of hitting the slopes.

Clean lines, an angled roof, and no decorative frill give this San Juan Island cabin a contemporary aesthetic.

The ceiling is exposed corrugated metal salvaged from the old house’s pitched roof and reused as decking for the concrete slab overhead. The space also features a Jessie Velvet armchair from Altea Design, a Dune pouf by Kare Design, and a Quinn wool rug from Crate & Barrel. Outside, a hammock beckons.

Much of the furniture— including the nine-foot dining table created from a single slab of a fallen Guanacaste tree—was custom made by local millworker HDM. The Eames Molded chairs are from Herman Miller, and the pendant light from IKEA.