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Top 10 Vans, Buses, and Trailers of 2020: From souped-up Airstreams to converted skoolies, these rambling homes enraptured our readers.

“The original Corduroy tiles were made with an extruder, which is like a giant pasta machine for clay. I had a custom die made to create the ribbed texture. The clay comes out in a tube, but I cut it into pieces to lay them flat,” says Levi. “José Noé convinced me to use a shiny, glossy glaze which I ended up loving! These are great for a bathroom—I have these in mine!”

“It feels good to be part of an ecological, sustainable future,” says Marie Granmar, who lives full-time in the three-level naturhus built by her partner, Charles Sacilotto.

The rundown barn sat on twenty-five acres of countryside in Devon.

Christa and Darren hired Mowery Marsh Architects to rescue and revitalize this 1880s row house in Jersey City, New Jersey, which had sustained a lot of previous damage and was filled with belongings from the previous owners.

Nwankpa Design reimagines tired coastal home while helping their forward-thinking client plan for the future.

For Gabriel Ramirez and his partner Sarah Mason Williams, following the Sea Ranch rules—local covenants guide new designs—didn’t mean slipping into Sea Ranch clichés. The architects love Cor-Ten steel, with its ruddy and almost organic surface, and they made it the main exterior material, along with board-formed concrete and ipe wood. The Cor-Ten, which quickly turned an autumnal rust in the sea air, and the concrete, with its grain and crannies, mean the house isn’t a pristine box, Ramirez says. His Neutra house “was very crisp and clean,” he says. “This house is more distressed, more wabi-sabi.”

Architect Fred Fisher’s California residence recalls family memories of la dolce vita.

There’s the option to rent out the top floor, but it also makes a great place for family visiting from Europe to stay.