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Candour is a prefab building system and a tool to customize building components within that system—including walls, floors, facades, and roofs—with a proprietary CAD plug-in. Users of the software can draft a design, determine if it’s feasible, and price it all in one day. Designs are built at Candour’s manufacturing facility in Sunshine, Melbourne.

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The master bedroom has sliding-glass doors on two sides, encouraging natural ventilation throughout the house.

An outdoor breezeway between the storage shed and the main house is ideal for outdoor dining.

One of John Redington's silkscreen artworks documenting Texas sheds and barns

The kitchen went from being a room Josephine would not step foot in to one of the most-used rooms of the apartment.

In the Dank Lounge, a film screen lowers in front of room-darkening curtains on movie nights. The deep sectional was built by Lizz and Isaac while the Blob coffee table is by Project Room, and the Scandinavian rya rug is vintage. The couple’s art collection includes works by many friends and local artists. A print by Alex Smith, along with drawings by Cammie Staros and Karl Haendel, hang in the lounge beside a painting by John Finneran and a photo by Lizz.

An existing garage was converted into an ADU. Its folding glass wall opens to the backyard, allowing the extra kitchen to be put to use for outdoor entertaining.

Calling all Midwest modernists: This 3,512-square-foot property sports a crisp, white facade, floor-to-ceiling glazing, and a sparkling pool.

This one-room flat in Stockholm, Sweden, is listed for SEK 4,900,000 (approximately $476,500 USD) by Christer Karkenne of Fantastic Frank.

In Chile's Chiloé Archipelago, architect Guillermo Acuña developed a 12-acre island for his friends and family to unwind, first with a boathouse, later with pathway-connected cabins at the water's edge. Design details include glazed walls, eco-friendly pine, and a bright red palette that calls to mind the intensely colored chilco flowers that bloom here come spring and summer.

In 2014, Jeff and Karen Gunning began researching building another house, hoping to create a single, contained volume without compromising their retirement funds. The resulting Tree House comprises three pitched volumes with cutaways to create a porch in phase one and recessed window planter ledges in phase two. Simple wood columns provide support.

The kitchen cabinets were made with cabinet boxes set into framing, then a primed drywall shell covered with a textural Roman Clay finish, and sealed.