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The peg board! One of Serai and Archibald’s first major kitchen projects. All of the materials combined cost around $30.

In the Cypress Park section of Los Angeles, Hunter Knight designed and built an urban infill project consisting of a single-family residence and an attached ADU. Tenant Hannah Go, a designer, fabricated the desk/shelving unit in the office that she and her fiancé, Rami Jrade, a songwriter and producer, share when working from home. Inspired by midcentury garden apartments, the ADU features abundant light and exposed wood ceilings.

Floor Plan of Guest Cottage by Urbanology Designs

Curtis designed the Ash built-in bench and table, to be narrow enough so as not to encroach the living room, yet still fit the whole family. The “elevated but casual” stools, another Urbanology design, are covered in a textural wool, and designed to tuck completely under the table or move around as needed.

Curtis swapped out the flooring for a handmade ceramic tile, and used a rich dark wood for the counter. The existing cabinet bases were repainted.

Curtis completely overhauled the shelving, changing the shapes of the niches and covering them in micro-cement.

The first phase of Curtis’ redesign was to refinish the shelves in a rich moody color.

Using money she’d set aside for a trip not taken, set designer and art director Catherine Pearson reimagined her home with new kitchen fixtures, colorful curtains, and gallons of paint.

Floor plan of Skoby Family Home

The plant from Printwood is a recent addition, and brought the room to life; the leaves glow in the sun that comes through the shower skylight.

Tom says he left the concrete vaults deliberately rough and unfinished to create “a contemporary experience of space and light that feels rooted in the past.”

Before: The small bathroom had a dated designer and lacked a useful vanity.

Floor Plan of La Posmoderna by FMT Estudio

Floor plan of Salga T.O.W by Madeiguincho

If you’re curious about renovating your own Airstream, “set aside twice as much time as you think it’ll take,” David advises. He worked on it six days a week with the benefit of his own cabinet shop and CNC machine.

Built with a steel frame, the Frost House features panels of styrofoam between aluminum sheets for the exterior walls and styrofoam between plywood for the roof and floors. Bold, primary colors accentuate its geometric form. Shortly after Karen Valentine and Bob Coscarelli purchased the home in 2016, they began to unearth nuggets of information about its pedigree. Their realtor had provided a brochure that identified the prefab as designed by architect Emil Tessin for the now-defunct Alside Homes Corporation based out of Akron, Ohio, which had held a patent for the structure’s aluminum paneling. Their new neighbors provided a stack of Alside Homes sales materials, floor plans of various models, and even a script that had been written for salespeople during home tours. They determined that the Frost House had been a sales model for the company, and that Tessin had been the son of Emil Albert Tessin, the legal guardian of Florence Knoll.

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