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Perched high above Oakland, this expanded midcentury soaks up jaw-dropping views—even from the bathroom.

Loft

General view of the extension, the kitchen bar and the exterior deck

Tidy design for family life

Exterior of the front of the house

Front Entrance at Night

The front of the home. A flat roof spans between two offset gable volumes. Heavy timber beams span from the front of the property to the back. The entry is emphasized in a recessed charcoal brick area.

In Darby, Montana, just steps from the Bitterroot River, John Shoemaker and Greg Case built a home base for their fly-fishing group vacations.

Maria Milans del Bosch’s Catskills home is attuned to the changing seasons. Sunlight pours into the double-height living room, where a Stûv fireplace and radiant floors keep the space warm in winter.

Lauren and Brittan Ellingson, the owners of Notice Snowboards, a custom snowboard and wakesurf company in Whitefish, Montana, approached Workaday Design and builder Mindful Designs to concoct a new lake home for their family. The brief was, perhaps unsurprisingly, focused on getting the family outdoors as much as possible.

Lagos has raised the cabin above the ground on supporting steel to avoid damaging any of the existing trees on site.

Danish architects John Lassen and Joanna Tench renovated the interior of this quaint 1960s thatched-roof cottage in North Jutland, giving it a clean, modern face-lift.