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Inspired by the sea and sand, Richard and Jackie Willcocks chose blue and orange joinery colors for their 1,140-square-foot prefab. The modular home is by New South Wales company ArchiBlox.

In the kitchen, blue cabinets add another captivating burst of color.

In the living room and kitchen, soft-but-tough Expanko cork flooring provides comfort and stands up to dings and scuffs. While the kitchen was designed primarily with Surendra and a caregiver’s needs in mind, it also accommodates the five-foot-radius of a wheelchair.

Harry designed the kitchen to feel like furniture rather than cabinetry. The mosaic tiled backsplash (Nagoya Mosaic-Tile Co from Academy Tiles) and the dropped overhead cabinet's rattan inserts are a nod to midcentury style.

The open-plan kitchen, dining and living room honors the home's original design and heroes the existing stone wall.

In the kitchen, a crisp white VOD tap pops against the warm plaster walls.

Signs of the couple’s Mediterranean backgrounds abound. A blue square over the stove “symbolizes a window with a view of the sea,” says Kiki.

Early print advertisements for the American furniture manufacturing company carried an aura of artful neatness that epitomized the concept of knolling.

Design-build architect Jeff Fink created a copycat version of the original kitchen, using the same angles and materials that Schindler used. He even reproduced the original triangular lights with metal frames in the ceiling. The appliances are by Samsung.

The powder room is wrapped in Josef Frank wallpaper.

The room is painted Farrow & Ball ‘Stiffkey Blue’ and outfitted with a custom desk.

Custom cabinetry creates entry storage, and wasn’t brought up to the ceiling, so as to appear floating and allow more natural light to spread. The custom metal fabrication is by Michael Northrup, including a powder coated railing and entry shelf.

A view of how the reworked entry meets the new office/library, with the slat wall promoting sightlines through the house.

Recycled Altrock work surfaces and larch cabinetry define the kitchen design.

To accommodate a young family leaving New York City, design firm Stewart-Schafer revamped the kitchen and living areas of an outdated upstate home in just three months.

A luminous marriage of old and new, the renovation of a 1930s apartment in Barcelona celebrates the building’s original charm by preserving the patterned tile floors and barrel-vaulted ceilings. The architects from local firm Atzura Arquitectura decided to keep the bedrooms small and give priority to the consolidated common space—a light-filled open area anchored by a modernized plywood kitchen.

Reimagined by architect Lisa Breeze, this compact semidetached brick home in Melbourne was built by the client's granduncle in the 1940s and passed down through generations. While the kitchen was updated to fit a modern lifestyle, the pastel color, gentle curves, and preserved Bakelite handles are a nod to the original era.