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In addition to the dining table just off-camera, it's easy to pull up a barstool to the overhanging counterop.

The kitchen features open shelving and soapstone countertops.

Floor Plan of Tinyleaf by GO’C

The home’s design unifies two extremes—light and dark, weightless and heavy.

A wood-and-glass abode in Nashville.

The Judd Foundation’s offices in New York are decorated with Judd’s work, including a La Mansana Table 22 and

Kim Kardashian falsely claimed the table and chairs in her office were by Donald Judd. They were based on these original sets, which include the 84 Chair the La Mansana Table 22.

Floor Plan of Pine Home by Emilie Taylor and Seth Welty

Emilie and Seth chose materials for the bottom floor based on durability and climate compatibility and made it considerably smaller than the second level to mitigate flood damage and minimize concrete use. (The strategy was also a form of carbon output reduction.) The second-floor over-hang provides shade to the first-floor walls while also directing rainwater away from the foundation, while the living area’s second-level location allows for backyard, street, and river views. Keeping sustainability in mind and material costs low was a tedious endeavor that involved tons of labor (such as removing mold and moss from the terra-cotta tiles used on the first floor), patience, rounding up items from previous projects, and for Seth, spending hours at big-box retailers, scoping wood planks and other “normal” materials that could be used in imaginative ways. “We did things that feel like being good citizens and good neighbors,” Emilie says.

Floor Plan of The Angled Dwelling Unit by ChandlerWorkshop Architects

A new kitchen now occupies the parlor floor, thanks to the two-story addition.

Neufeld chose brick for the addition so it related to the existing house, but wanted to underscore the temporal contrast between the two parts of the building. “Let new be new, and old be old,” says Neufeld. The switchback layout of the slim-lined steel staircase doesn’t encroach on the yard.

The original fireplace was kept, and the plaster around it removed to reveal the brick, which was white-washed.

Floor Plan of Evelyn ADU by 3R Studio