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The 1969 summer house needed a gut remodel—so Carisa Salerno and Aaron Levin rebuilt it piece by piece: “In the end, we feel like we built a sculpture, not a house.”

The one-level home is delicately wrapped in vines and surrounded by tall, mature trees.

Backdrop’s After Hours, a soft charcoal hue, gives Carlos Naude and Whitney Brown’s home in Woodland Hills, California, sleek curb appeal. Lund Sconces by Kuzco Lighting punctuate the exterior, and the streamlined garage doors are by Amarr.

Floor Plan of Pyrenees by David Noordhoff / Freeman Group Architects

"With the Lantern House, Hollingsworth tapped into Japanese wabi-sabi principles that seek to eliminate the inessential and find beauty in unembellished, humble materials,

The living room features a sectional sofa and leather chair by Zanotta, coffee tables by Porro, a Kymo rug, and a floor lamp from Flos.

425 Juniper Drive in Pasadena, California, is currently listed for $1,880,000 by Nate Cole of Modern California House.

Wood-paneled ceilings complement the exposed beams spanning the home's entire width.

Béliveau grouped the living spaces together closer to the main windows, using contrasting materials to mark the different zones. “We do try to play with compact entrances in many of our projects,” says Béliveau. “This one was even easier because it was already compressed with the [lower] ceiling. It's a play on something very small and dark, followed by all the openness when you switch into the public zone of the apartment.”

The ground-floor living room features a low bench adorned with objets d’art that runs beneath a window that frames views of the surrounding trees.

"The plaster's imperfections are part of what gives the house its unique character, in the same way the concrete floor shows swirls and the timber has natural knotting,

Rakks shelves in the primary bedroom hold many books, including those written by James.

The couple purchased the wide leather sofa from HD Buttercup secondhand off Facebook Marketplace. The coffee table is another Saasaan piece, while the side chair is from Big Daddy's Antique and the arc lamp is from BASA Vintage.

Installing the shelving unit proved to be an unexpected challenge. Because the building is so old, the floors aren't perfectly even, so the vertical 12' slabs didn't all fit. "We ended up having to cut some of them down,