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Outside the dining area and kitchen, Cor-Ten steel columns support a deep roof overhang. “The building is open and accessible on multiple sides, recalling a pavilion where you might gather in a park,” Shaw says. “Rather than front doors defining entry or exit points, there’s porosity.”

“Exposing the raw and unfinished forms of granite beings nature directly the [home], offering a tactile connection often absent in urban environments,” says Suphasidh on the stone elements.

Graci works from home so she turned a former closet in the living room into an office. “I always get frustrated at how inefficient closets are,” she says, noting how the very top of the space is difficult to access because doors are usually so much lower than the ceilings. Andrew designed and built a custom workstation for her, which takes advantage of the full width and height of the nook and has a surface that can be collapsed into the desk.

In the Bed-Stuy neighborhood of Brooklyn, Graci Mills, an architect and founder of Go Bang! Studio, and her partner Andrew Keck, an SNL prop master and founder of The Fabrication Shop, renovated a narrow and long two-bedroom apartment into a live-work space that balances privacy and openness.

The dry stonewall construction contrasts with the smooth finish on the passage separating the two houses, and "creates tension,

The palette of the Hebridean skies and mountains complements the Stephens’ choice of Siberian larch cladding for the house and aluminum for both a guest house and the stables for their horse, Dram.

created this spacious, spa-like washroom,” says Braithwaite.

To capture prime views, Braithwaite and his students rotated the living space thirty degrees and lifted it on stilts.

Frosted glass panes at one end of the cabin let light into the bathroom while keeping it private.

The asymmetrical vanities on opposite walls in the primary bathroom feature stone tops and backsplashes with a chiseled free edge -- a detail that came together from the collaboration between Fowlkes Studio and their clients. The free edges were designed to evoke broken stone and be different from each other, the edges reflect in the opposing mirrors.

kitchen’s walnut cabinetry is warm and organic compared to the off-white quartz countertops.