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The window frames, side gate, and front door were brightened with custom shades from Johnstone’s Paint—a playful blue-yellow-orange color scheme that is carried throughout the house.

"Much, much of our time is spent outside,

The art studio is used by both Isaac, who works with oil paintings and pencil drawings, and his wife, Helen, who plays the piano: “She’s much more talented than me,” insists Isaac.

The lofted space shag carpet was replaced with bouncy cream colored popcorn Berber Carpet to spark feelings of summer camp nostalgia.

Thick vegetation encloses the sage-green home, allowing it to merge with its surroundings.

The two structures that comprise the home are connected by a breezeway and a Nordic sauna.

In the living room, a new wall of glass connects the house to its landscape, while a family-heirlume Persian rug adds softness to the new ceramic tile floor.

Efe enclosed an exterior balcony, to convert it to an indoor Zen garden.

When the winds are slow and predictable, Horne enjoys making use of the on-site firepit.

Floor plan of Treehouse3000 by Jagoda Architecture

“If you want to respect the old, the contrast should be brutal. I want to be very clear what is old and what is new.” —Dirk Wynants

Floor Plan of Butterfly House by Oliver Leech Architects

Built by Earthship Biotecture founder Michael Reynolds and his team in 2009, an earthship outside Taos, New Mexico, is the shared part-time home of friends Trent Wolbe, Izzy Tang, and Steve Jewett, who purchased it in 2021.

Designed by Atelier Lina Bellovicova, House LO marks the first residential project in the Czech Republic to use hempcrete, a sustainable and fire-and-mold-resistant material.

Architects Gordon Stott and Jared Levy saw modular prefabrication as a chance to make high-quality residences more affordable—so long as the construction method was extremely efficient. In 2012, they launched Connect Homes with fifteen designs as part of its original Design Series. Since, Stott and Levy have made more affordable models as well as shelters and community buildings for unhoused people.

The blackened timber cladding helps the prefab to blend into the forest. The interior of the home was conceived as two blocks that house less flexible spaces like the bathroom, kitchen, and storage. This approach helped to avoid the use of interior walls, “freeing up the rest of the spaces to connect with the setting,” explains iHouse. “The forest is framed at all times.”