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Buble Blob sofa, Duke coffee table, and black leather Pelle Plus chair by Arketipo.

A band of precast concrete, which holds a custom bench, wraps around the downstairs living area. The striped cushion fabric was purchased in Antwerp. A wood-framed AP71 lounge chair by Hans Wegner and a seat by Wim Rietveld, the son of famed Dutch designer Gerrit Rietveld, outfit the space. Underfloor heating installed throughout the house allows for a flexible layout: “There aren’t any radiators cluttering up the rooms,” Jeffries explains.

Architect James Jeffries crafted the kitchen table by joining a birch plywood surface with the base of a collapsible catering table, purchased at a furniture sale held at an old office building.

Glazed garage doors by Renlita lift up to completely open the home to nature.

The house that Fleetwood Fernandez Architects designed for contractor Mehran Taslimi and his wife, Laila, embraces its surroundings. “They wanted doors that they could just throw open,” designer Hunter Fleetwood says of the retractable wall system from Vitrocsa.

Standing-seam copper siding accentuates sections of the structure that provide shear support for the steel moment frame.

A custom Corian Glacier White countertop finishes a custom vanity made of stained American walnut. Corian also supplied the rectangular sinks, which are topped with Cigno faucets by Lacava. The bathtub is by Zuma, and it stands on a Corian platform.

The original home’s dilapidated rear wall was in such poor condition that Roberts called it “an opportunity in disguise.” She removed the wall and built a two-story addition that features double-glazed windows and sliding doors for unified entertaining inside and in the garden.