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This eco-friendly, A-frame lakeside home in the Swedish city of Gothenburg was designed as a greenhouse that contains a three-bedroom, two-bath residence. It provides the family with apricots, tomatoes, kiwis, and grapes throughout the year.

Speaking to his original design, architect Saul Zaik says, “We were really just building boxes with a bunch of windows but experimenting with how you integrated indoor and outdoor spaces.” The house has seven different openings to the exterior, allowing different courtyard or patio settings for a range of outdoor activities, including seating for a gathering on the street-facing side. The Milfords hired Lilyvilla Gardens for the landscaping around the house, including variegated bluestone steps with thyme joints.

Kelly Milford helps son Adam out of the hot tub nestled on a wood deck in back of the house. The exterior paint is Wrought Iron by Benjamin Moore.

Using technology to design a home as energy-efficient as possible was a priority for Hague, both from a financial and philosophical standpoint. Along with Passive House certification for the main house, a solar array on the roof of the barn keeps energy use near zero. In fact, the entire property was Net Zero before the addition of the pool, and it may soon generate an energy surplus with the addition of a second solar array at the main house.

A couple renovated an old farmhouse in Quebec to serve as their vacation home—and didn’t stop there. They looked to the old dilapidated barn on the property, and transformed it into a sprawling 4,500-square-foot guest house for their adult children.

As an evolution of Warne’s original concept, Anders designed his naturhus with an “eco-cycle system,” in which nutrients from household wastewater are dissolved in tanks in the basement and used in garden beds to nourish the plants.

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The new exterior door and adjacent window draw plentiful daylight into the bedroom space.

The bench seats in the rear of the van fold out to become a double bed.

The weeHouse exteriors are clad in corrugated Cor-Ten, but with a custom pattern of folds to create an organic randomness. The foundations were designed with a shallow recess around the top to make the modules look like they’re hovering. After they bought the property in early 2014, the Siegels camped there for two summers while they saved up money and planned a permanent structure. In his research, BJ came across this design, a customizable prefab house by Alchemy Architects. "Of all the things that I found, I was drawn to that one because it was absolutely the simplest and cleanest," he says.

Equal parts wall art and storage system, this ash shelf from Ferm Living allows you to stash kitchen essentials without jeopardizing precious counter space. Use its various pegs, ledges, and pockets to store—or show off—cookbooks, tools, and tchotchkes.

Samsung’s new line of refrigerators promises to be wildly customizable in both color and configuration. Due out later this spring, the 24-inch version (shown here in both white and navy) can switch between refrigerator and freezer modes, and the door can hang on either side.