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“I skewed the plan so that my house is oriented to the meadow and the creek, and they’re oriented to the meadow and the mountain,” Schicketanz says.

After entering through a gate, the home's charred spruce siding presents a somber face.

Built just a few years ago, this black Catskills cabin has 30-foot ceilings, 10 acres of land, and it comes fully furnished.

White walls and light-hued furnishings match the airiness of the home's design. Douglas made the dining table from maple milled on site atop a Corbusier LC 6 base. A Heracleum pendant by Moooi hangs above it.

The house clearly displays its Sea Ranch–style touches.

Designed by Max Levy, the contemporary home is wrapped in corrugated metal—and it comes with a barn, an ADU, and 4.65 acres of land.

The 1941 Druckman Residence has a new pink kitchen, original plywood paneling, and an open living area overlooking the Hollywood Hills.

“The house is kind of crooked, with rough floors, and no fancy finishes—but it has lots of personality,” says architect Francisco Mesquita Moura.

Completed in 2008, the rectilinear home features a roofline with a dramatic parabolic curve that creates two bulbous volumes inside the home, one of which houses a curved skylit shower.

Floor Plan of Highland Place by Fowlkes Studio

After: The soaring new living and dining space benefits from an abundance of natural light from every side, and they spent a lot of time trying to find the best lighting for the kitchen. The final choice: long, narrow copper pendants from Denmark suspended by ultra thin wires to not disrupt the visual flow of the room.

This urban retreat, originally designed in the 1980s by famed architect Robert Renfro, is perched on a secluded hillside with a ravine and stream running through. With the help of Hogan Architects and Development, the Sundown Residence underwent a thoughtful renovation and addition that reflects the owners' post-modernist ideals and individualism. Today, it combines a reverence for the past with a commitment to contemporary advancements and amenities.

OFFBeat by Nick Deaver Jes Deaver Architecture is one of nine cleverly designed homes featured in the 2024 AIA Austin Home Tours lineup.

To install Charles Willson’s prefab house, Stillwater Dwellings lifted the structure over an existing barn on the one-acre property. Willson, who is often on the road, wired the house with the latest in smart technology.

An outdoor breezeway between the storage shed and the main house is ideal for outdoor dining.

This multilevel home is perched on a spacious lot, surrounded by pristine countryside, in the hills above Épinal, France.