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Additional original details, including exposed beams and red-brick walls, can be found in the primary suite located on the lower level.

Floor Plan of Theresa Passive House by Forge Craft Architecture and Design

IKEA cabinet boxes with wood doors from Semihandmade outfit the kitchen. The bright red uppers are custom-built and have a lacquer finish. "We really try to create a custom look by blending the inexpensive material—the high and the low, if you will," says Reeves. The backsplash is a reflective white glass tile.

The island helps to define and separate the open-plan kitchen, dining, and living areas.

The interiors were intended, says Elsley, to feel like “one piece of cabinet,” with no plasterboard or common domestic finishes inside.

In between the guest suites, there are structures for storage, maintenance and a transit waiting suite, all connected with terraced landscape pockets and courtyards.

Artful cutouts allow the branch of the tree to snake through the wall, making for a dreamy place to get some work done.

No whiteware here. In this moody apartment in Berlin, multi-toned charcoal gray subway tiles make up the backsplash, which contrasts with the pop of rosy color on the kitchen cabinets.

Architect Johan Sundberg looked to Japanese architects like Kengo Kuma for inspiration for the design of a holiday home in southern Sweden. "We call it the Katsura typology, but that's probably sacrilegious," he says. The eaves of the gently sloped hipped roof extend generously in all directions, turning the deck into a covered retreat that’s part veranda, part engawa, the Japanese version of a porch.