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Connect Homes offers two product lines. Their higher-end and more flexible Design Series range in price from $208k to $1.2M. The more standardized Pro Series models go for between $208k to 611k.

While the Pro Series models can be purchased individually, they also work as the foundation for the company's new Pro Platform: a modular and scalable housing product for developers.

The 3,444-square-foot home is set in a rural area near Futrono, Chile.

Hebra Arquitectos used charred timber and local stone to craft an elemental home that blends into its rugged setting.

The two combined families return to the home each summer.

The house is about 3,000 square feet with six bedrooms, four of them on the second floor, surrounding a stairway to the large open space below where cooking, dining, game-playing, and movie-watching take place.

Wood from the property’s felled trees was incorporated into every room in the 3,000-square-foot house.

Beyond the second-floor landing, a garden roof filters rainwater and provides insulation.

17896 Santa Rosa Avenue in Guerneville, California, is currently listed for $775,000 by Gary Beyrouti of Sotheby's International Realty - San Francisco.

Saltviga House is a weekend home located on a rocky, seafront plot in coastal Norway.

West Facade

The Seattle-based SHED Architecture + Design worked with builder Joe Gates Construction to preserve the brick shell, while making room in the 2182-square-foot plan for two complete bedroom suites upstairs, an open main level, and a finished the basement. To the left is a partially-buried, concrete, 380-square-foot “boat bunker,” which acts as a windbreak and gear storage.

SHED converted the side door into the front door, adding a new entry sequence with a patio, landscaping, stairs, and a metal awning to protect the porch. Wide stairs and a patio lead down to new sliding glass door in the basement, which now has utility spaces and a media room/office. Many of the original window openings were kept on this façade and given new Andersen E-Series units. Two smaller openings were bricked in.

The paved side yard with a translucent roof sheet acts as a landing pad for the family’s ride-on toys, while a slatted frame keeps the space from seeming too cluttered.

The family home that residents Tyler Lepore, Lisa Giroday, builders Hanson Land & Sea, and September Architecture devised in the Sunshine Coast region of British Columbia, Canada, is wrapped with cedar and brick, tying to its wooded surround, which is only a four-minute walk to the ocean. "The house feels like it's part of the setting,