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The Bauhaus bathroom is named for the tubular pattern on the floor tile.

The pegboard allows Chuck to access all of his cooking essentials quickly.

Architect Tito Ficarelli designed the Toca House for himself and his wife, artist Luiza Gottschalk, their daughters, a family friend, and their dogs.

Light pours into the renovated kitchen from all directions, with the breezy natural palette transforming the room into a warm and inviting family space. After removing walls, the dated and mismatched floors became an eyesore, with Leah opting to replace them with Hakwood Engineered European Oak floors in ‘Aura,’ which run throughout the home.

The Moongate ADU by Cover Architecture uses a soft palette of earth tones to create a sanctuary that offers refuge from the modern world.

Olson Kundig created a custom wood-and-steel dining table on wheels that can adapt to serve small or larger groups of diners.

The house is clad primarily with weathered steel.

The sophisticated interiors belie the fact that the house is almost entirely off-grid. The water, sanitary, and heating systems are completely independent, and the electrical system is connected to the grid only as a backup. The house relies mainly on solar panels and a generator for power.

Perron rearranged the stairway to the condo to build a “cocoon-like bathroom” with a window in the back, she says; the sunken tub is the star of the show, but the butter-and-cream coloured tiles, arranged in a striped formation, are an inspiring supporting act. (“It’s my favorite room in the condo,” admits Perron.)

Riffing on local farmhouses, architects Patrick Walker and Elizabeth Demetriades covered the 4,000-square-foot house in rough-sawn red cedar and capped it with a standing-seam galvalume roof.

In the bathroom closest to their daughter's bedroom, the owners made the shower accessible to a wheelchair.