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Architect Ken Meffan's ten-years-in-the-making home is located in the tiny Northern California town of Rough and Ready—a term that might as aptly refer to the house itself. Though all the on-site plants are mundane home-center varieties, they grow to uncanny heights in the moist, sunny environment.

When designer Hilton Carter furnished the industrial-style Baltimore apartment and work studio he shares with his wife Fiona, their dog Charlie and two cats Zoe and Isabella, he created a wondrous indoor woodland that offers all the benefits of being outdoors without leaving home.

Infused with traditional materials and aesthetics, this open-plan home in Japan strengthens the bond a young family has to nature and to each other.

The home presents a narrow facade to the street.

A tall, slender window in front of the sink creates a built in light well, allowing daylight to reflect further inward.

A Whistler A-Frame | British Columbia, Canada Scott & Scott Architects design an outdoorsy Vancouver family’s dream cabin

The kitchen's white palette allows the bright blue cabinets and gold hardware to stand out.

The living room of Ink, a Honka Fusion home furnished by interior designer Jonna Kivilahti.

The hallway leading to the master bedroom is lined with an assortment of framed photos of family and friends and floor-to-ceiling windows overlooking the verdant James River Valley.

A section of the farmhouse’s original shingled roof peeks out from under the new, raised ceiling in the master bedroom.

Nicknamed the Floating Farmhouse, this 200-year-old home inspired one former copywriter to delve into architecture as a living. Inside, renovator and owner Tom Givone mixes vintage and industrial decor. Photo by Mark Mahaney.

“The main volume presents a traditional front and is wrapped on the west and south by a deep porch,” says architect Erin Sterling Lewis. “Living and dining spaces access the porch.” A standing seam metal roof with a Kynar finish and HardiePlank Lap Siding cover the exterior of this 3,000-square-foot home.

master bedroom

front entry interior

Each Signature Luxury Tent is built with wood floors and a canvas shelter. They’re equipped with electricity, a working chandelier, high-quality bed linens, and a French press coffee bar. You’ll also stay extra warm with a wood burning fire stove that’s placed in every room, as well as a tea kettle at your disposal.

Doors and triple-glazed casement windows from Loewen work hard to form a tight thermal envelope.