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The kitchen features custom-lacquered cabinets with white oak handles and, in lieu of upper cabinets, a wall niche to display dishes.

Interior

The interior walls, ceilings, and built-ins are clad in Siberian larch from UPK Concept. Tham placed the glazed openings and doorways to maintain clear sight lines throughout the long and narrow home.

The exterior walls are from Kebony, the roof from Prefa, and the windows from Velfac

The interior glows like a lantern at night, as does the new backyard pool.

Looking down from the upstairs loft, the original post and beam structure defines the grand open space.

Looking from the dining area, wood cladding extends from the entryway ceiling up to railings in a second floor loft.

After more than 15 years spent in construction, high school friends Simon Fyall and Richard Egli started to imagine an architecture that blended in with the landscape of British Columbia better than industry-standard buildings. Soon after, the pair founded Blend Projects to build their vision: crisp gabled homes strung together from eight-foot-long cedar-sided glulam sections.

Blend Projects offers to install solar arrays and water catchment systems in their homes to make living in them more sustainable.

The cabinetry throughout the unit and the bathroom tiling are offered in either white (pictured above) or black color schemes.

This prefab also has a wraparound deck with a shaded dining area.

The flexibility and efficiency of Connect Homes' modular approach to prefabrication has already proven adept at addressing urgent needs for housing. Their models can be built, delivered, and installed in under half a year, making them an attractive option for those who've lost homes to wildfires.

Steel can be one of the options used on the exterior of the ADU.

Fredrik designed a rooftop deck that offers 360-degree views, including east to Dodger Stadium and southeast to the Downtown L.A. skyline.

"It was our job to hold on to the spirit of these buildings. They worked so well with the site and the views, so the project was really about exercising restraint,” says architect Brian Court. In the guesthouse, Gulassa wired a wisteria branch preserved from the property into a chandelier. The armchair is by Jens Risom and the windows are by Unilux.