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The vintage mid-century modern chair is from the Alameda Flea Market, and the concrete flooring has a hard-trowel natural finish.

Kevin designed and fabricated the black walnut dining banquette. It sits with a ‘Corbett' table from Room & Board, Room & Board dining chairs, and a ‘TR Bulb Suspension Frame’ light by Tim Rundle.

Kevin kept the Victorian details on the upper portion of the building, painted Benjamin Moore "Mayonnaise,

Will's custom capsule bed, inspired by The Public hotel in NYC, creates a cozy sleeping nook wrapped in warm plywood that feels both modern and surf-shack casual.

A look at the bathroom. “The window also gives a view out to the front garden and lets the morning sun in,” says David.

Concrete from the exterior continues indoors as a fireplace surround. For the couch, Annemie found the wooden base and cushion covers in a secondhand store and used baby mattresses as inserts. David made the oak back.

Many of the furnishings were made by the couple from salvaged materials. David designed and built the oak cabinetry in the kitchen, which features a Mortex-coated island.

Annemie Lathouwers grew up in a forested enclave on the outskirts of Antwerp, Belgium. A nature preserve filled with stately pines, the area lured her back when she and her husband, David D’Hulst, began thinking about trading their house in the city for greener surroundings.

Dabito’s design combines a little bit of everything like his host city. “You'll see tons of arches everywhere, and we had a lot of fun experimenting with scale, tile patterns, and different materials,” he says.

Dabito and his husband started out looking for a house to flip, but then “decided it would be way more special and fun to build our dream home from the ground up,” he says.