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A sliding glass door opens onto a terrace.

The banquette upholstery fabric is Tonic Living, paired with an Eames conference table and vintage Knoll Breuer Cesca chairs. The windows above the banquette open to the screened porch.

A Seattle couple built their own backyard house with a city-sponsored design—and then rented out their old home on the property to friends.

Stones excavated during the foundation dig were redistributed to level out the yard while simultaneously creating a drainage curtain around the leach field.

Architect Thaddeus Longstreth worked on the Kaufmann House before building this post-and-beam brick home surrounded by wooded paths in New Jersey.

A series of “stacked boxes” laid the foundation for this Sea Ranch–inspired home on a narrow site set on two flood zones and filled with protected redwoods.

This summer, I built a year-round outdoor shower that’s situated paces from my bedroom door.

Before: The 1881 schoolhouse outside Hudson, New York, had sat vacant for a while before Joel Edmondson and Mimia Johnson bought it to convert into a single-family home.

The couple also built an outhouse for the bathroom area.

Molly and Jeff wanted their guests to have creature comforts, so early on they built an outdoor shower that’s illuminated by string lights at night.