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The black-stained cedar facade pops against the home's sprawling lawn and surrounding countryside. A detached carport sporting a similar style offers additional storage.

We receive thousands of Add a Home submissions each year—and these inspiring residences racked up the most views.

Located two hours north of Boston, the Rocky Brook weeHouse is carved out of the grade of a steep creekside lot.

Architect Robert Swinburne deploys a collaborative building approach and hyperlocal materials to craft a Passive House–certified home that celebrates the land it’s built on.

Clutter is kept to a minimum, thanks to a concealed pantry behind the stove wall, accessed through the door to the left. “It’s like a secret room,” says Bassett.

A preserved brick support column is juxtaposed against a streamlined kitchen, with Corian counters and a marble slab backsplash.

Fixtures from Helvex plumbing are incorporated into both kitchen and bath.

A painting by Yael hangs near the Murphy bed in the make-shift guest sleeping quarters.

Mount Veeder Cabin by Risa Boyer Architecture floor plan

This Cypress-clad farmhouse by Workaday Design nestled in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Appalachia was a family affair.

Floor Plan of Villa Visuri by Kjellander Sjöberg Arkitekter

The organic placement of the windows echoes the knots on the trunks of the surrounding trees.

Floor Plan of Chalet Pic-Bois by Ravi Handa Architect

The courtyard extends the sense of space in the main bathroom, and although the latter is in a central location in the narrow building, the courtyard brings in that much more light than is typical in a floorplan like this. The floor tile is the Krista Watterworth Kiss Marble ’ tile, and the owners can also open the exterior door there should they want to shower al-fresco.

Now, the newly exposed brick wall is like a “very raw piece of the old house,” says Jennifer. A preserved window opening marks where the bathroom used to be, and has been overlaid with mesh so that eventually vines can grow over the wall. Being open to the sky means, “a lot of credit goes to the contractor to make it happen, because of the amount of sealing that has to happen for an exterior space to be carved out of a [former] interior space,” says Jennifer. “It was not an easy thing to implement.”