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A Ligne Roset lounger doubles as a place to crash in the guest room. Cirtus Garden fabric from Schumacher brings in some fun with a pop.

In Australia, a manufacturer and an architecture firm create an off-grid home that can be broken down and shipped across the world.

This ground-floor plan was used as a reference to build the Canadian Castaway Off-Grid Cabin.

An outdoor kitchen is the perfect spot for entertaining poolside. Here, black granite countertops are paired with stainles- steel cabinets; in place of a cooking range, there's a a Wolf grill.

The original kitchen was in the best location, but it needed to be updated.

Lower ground floor plan of Triangle House by Edgar Papazian Architect.

Ground floor plan of Triangle House by Edgar Papazian Architect.

Section of Triangle House by Edgar Papazian Architect.

Detail of a corner, showing how the home's original form has been retained and celebrated.

To make the home more thermally comfortable and energy efficient, eight inches of insulation was added to the roof, which is finished in yellow cedar shakes—a thicker alternative to shingles. The eaves of the house are painted in Outrageous Orange by Benjamin Moore, referencing the orange elements in the main living space.

In the basement of a Sag Harbor A-frame, Edgar Papazian installed light-colored walls and structural-grade OSB floors. “It’s derisively called ‘snot board’ in the industry,” he notes. “But, it is a durable, visually pleasing solution that has aged very well.”

A spiral stair at the center of the living space leads downstairs to the lower "basement" level. The small spiral stair was the only solution for code-compliant vertical circulation in a house with such a small footprint. The alternative would have involved building a "saddlebag" onto the side of the house to create a traditional stair run, which would have exceeded the budget.

The timber mezzanine structure was designed to match the existing structure of the home. Exposed Douglas fir dimensional lumber was used throughout. It was stained with a particular water-based Shaker stain mix to imbue the wood with a warm hue and define it from the original house elements.

Orange was used as a leitmotif that weaves throughout the main level, with furnishings such as the mezzanine ladder, the sofa, and the kitchen tile.

The original floors were "horrible" laminate, says Edgar. During the renovation, they were replaced with Douglas fir timber flooring that matches the timber structure of the home. The kitchen cabinets are sapele timber, and a cost-effective timber-effect laminate has been used on the kitchen countertops.

"The angular geometry of the catwalk trusses, the kitchen island, and the bathroom projection together with the 60-degree pitched roof make the project’s geometry performative and visually interesting," says Edgar.

The new entry footbridge that leads from the road doubles as a deck that sits in the canopy of small oak trees, creating a feeling akin to being in a tree house.

Edgar referred to several precedents when working on the renovation. "I love Chad Randl’s book on the A-frame typology, which allowed me to understand what I had on my hands with its copious illustrations and drawing documentation," he says. "The lovable architect Andrew Geller did at least two seminal A-frame homes during the midcentury in the Hamptons, the Betty Reese houses I and II. I took the catwalk notion from Reese house II."