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aux box offers to add customized features, like the decking and fence pictured above, to their prefabs so long as the requested additions align with their values.

Orcas Island Community Space and Farm Kitchen - exterior

The two cabins are surrounded by 15,000 square feet of Thermowood pine decking.

Built with a heavy timber post-and-beam structure, this renovated Tiburon kit house retains its standard footprint, framing, and tiled roof. Massive sliding glass doors were added to create an indoor/outdoor living experience.

Landscape Design by Land Morphology

Yard shed view from house

A wide paved drive leads to the remodeled home, where a bright orange door extends a cheerful welcome. Mature oak, pine, and bay trees encompass the private half-acre lot.

Architect Line Solgaard, founder of the eponymous Oslo- and Fredrikstad-based firm, designed a getaway for her family in the place where she grew up. Untreated, exposed concrete pairs with cedar cladding; custom, oak-paneled ceilings; and a glass roof in the center of the home that opens like a sunroof for natural ventilation.

The house’s original post-and-beam carport includes a lockable storage shed and a new remote-controlled gate.

This home is elevated by the dramatic outdoor space, which uses large-scale Techo-Bloc Para tiles as a starting canvas. A scattering of Techo-Bloc Diamond pavers in colors that echo the home’s exterior palette create a dynamic abstract composition that connects the outdoor kitchen to the fire pit and stone bench.

The site already had a pool when Anacapa Architecture began planning the design of the clubhouse. To merge the two structures more organically, the architects introduced stadium-like seating that descends from the clubhouse's second-floor deck down to the pool area.

Larsson designed the backyard himself after some research into Straub's use of landscape design. "In our research, we found that Straub's landscape influence was a 'sexy' Japanese garden," he says.

The mono-pitch roof extends past the glazing to shelter the interiors from extreme sunlight and rain.

Log fretwork on the covered porch overlooking Upper Saranac Lake evokes the Adirondack’s golden architectural era.

The large terrace captures mesmerizing views of the historic center of Justicia while also offering a private city escape.

A queen-size Murphy bed folds down from a wall at one end of the the living room.

359 Bear Cub Ln in Lake Placid, New York, is currently listed for $449,000 by Kathleen Fischer of BHHS Adirondack Premier Properties.