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Salvaged ironbark floors in the living room step down to the adjacent kitchen and dining space, creating a built-in seating area.

Salvaged ironbark flooring, with integrated storage, marks the living area, where a double-height ceiling and a cantilevered corner window gives the feeling of being outdoors while relaxing inside.

The living space steps up from the kitchen-and-dining area and features a plywood floor, ceiling and walls.

Sasaki placed an open-plan kitchen, dining area and living space on the second level; a flexible loft space is situated above the kitchen.

Andrew Simpson Architects built the floors, walls, stairs, and cabinetry out of hoop pine plywood. Plywood panels salvaged from the client’s former art installation were used to line the ceiling.

Launech teaches cooking classes in the house, and the mobile countertops make it easy for her to configure the kitchen to her tastes.

Simpson retained the original roof trusses and left them exposed as a reminder of the building's industrial heritage. The etched panels recycled from Anderson's former art installation line the ceiling above the trusses.

The kitchen is both stylish and practical.

The 18-foot-long built-in floating desk in the workspace has integrated storage for scripts.

The cabin’s elements were prefabricated over the course of several weeks. Assembly and finishing took another month.

Wide-set window sills provide a ledge on which to sit and view the pine trees that dot the shoreline of the Baltic Sea.

The interior walls of the living room, crafted from unfinished pine plywood, contrast with the cool gray of the concrete floors.

A compact closet blends in with the plywood walls.

Special attention was paid to the casework detail. Overlapping butt joints form a subtle herringbone pattern and exposes the plywood end-grain.

The firm added a 60-square-meter annex to the existing 88-square-meter stone building to fashion a residence that’s now about 148 square meters (or around 1,500 square feet).

This archetypal Swedish building form, shaped like a Monopoly house, serves as an artist’s studio, with a simple plywood interior and massive skylights to let in natural sunlight.

City House by SMS Arquitectos features a second-floor townhouse extension that explores new possibilities with plywood.

Lookofsky outfitted the bedroom with built-in pine plywood bunkbeds, walls, and a ceiling. The bathroom and a closet are also wrapped in plywood.