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A view from the new addition toward the shared living area shows how the rooms are connected.

Natural light is plentiful, both upstairs and down. “In Berlin, we have a top-floor apartment, so it’s always full of light. Once you get to know it, you can’t live without it,” says Elena.

Zooco Estudio created a sublime workspace on the top floor of a painter’s home in Madrid.

Built for a scholar, Casa Biblioteca is a sanctuary for reading, stargazing, and enjoying a cigar or two. Floor-to-ceiling glass allows light to freely flood the interior and illuminate its jewel-like structure.

Designed in 1993 by architects Anne Lacaton and Jean-Philippe Vassal, the two-level home comprises a wooden volume placed inside a metal structure inspired by an agricultural shed.

A rear deck equipped with Adirondack chairs flows seamlessly from the bedroom's bay windows.

The units are installed on a site in Hurley, New York, overlooking Twin Lakes, and some of them will include private hot tubs.

An aerial view shows the layout of the Moliving units.

The desk design integrates the work area into the bed's headboard and takes advantage of the lakeside view.

The minty green powder bath is a favorite room of the client's. The clear polycarbonate ceiling adds an element of surprise, while imbuing the pocket-sized space with an indoor-outdoor feel that is connected to the polycarbonate to the sunroom in the ADU.

Reilly, pictured here, deleted the original front door in order to create an expanse of uninterrupted wall in the living room. The existing slider is now the main entry point. She clad the exterior with planks marketed as a shou sugi ban product that reads as burned, knotty cedar. A new, corrugated metal roof replaced asphalt shingles.

In the primary bath, the vanity countertop and integrated sink is done in the same micro-topping material as the room’s walls and floors.

Cabinets are all lined with hardwood, and the walls themselves are clad in Blackbart timber with a unique paint treatment that allows the texture to shine through to add warmth.

In one kitchen, the countertops are Corian, while in the other, you’ll find stainless steel. “We changed materials for each to give them a different identity,” says Elsley.