Organic Vibe

Dolce sits on a vintage 1950s couch he found at a thrift store in Asbury Park, New Jersey. Dolce and Burnham had the couch and the Donghia armchair recovered in a stain-resistant Sunbrella fabric by Andrew Grossman Upholstery. The Flokati rug was picked up at a thrift store in Florida. Hanging on the wall behind Dolce is a piece of art by British painter Tom Hammick.

The 1967 beach house—which underwent a meticulous renovation by Bates Masi, the original architect’s firm—is listed as an exclusive holiday rental along the coast of Long Island in New York.

When Sean first moved in, the enormous cactus at the far end was just outside the yard, so he had the wall rebuilt to include it in the patio.

For the lower-level den, “Sean wanted something that felt really cozy,” says Alves. She and Echeverry covered the walls with Portola’s deep-green Timberline limewash and installed a built-in sofa to enclose a retreat from the rest of the open-plan house. They kept the home’s original hardwood floors, layering them with vintage Turkish rugs, and installed recessed shelving after discovering a hidden crawl space behind one of the walls.

“It rains, like, every day here for six months,” says Santiago Garcia Rey, Wander Cabins’ founder. All that precipitation fuels plenty of local water features, such as a stream that runs through a tunnel to a waterfall.

High ceilings and framed views create a distinctive experience, which continues with Wander Cabins’ guided outdoor adventures, such as a hike down the slopes.

“There are a lot of cool and very beautiful cabins being designed, but they all look alike,” Pérez Rea Juncá says. “The generic wooden cabin—it’s always this natural-pine tone,” says Germenos Garcia. The O-Frame uses pine plywood for the walls and ceiling and uses treated pine planks for the floor, but it’s all stained in dark and earthy colors.

Dwell’s managing editor, Jack Balderrama Morley, tested out the company’s latest model, nicknamed the O-Frame, a wooden prefab designed by architecture firm oioioi.

The great room of this Brentwood, California, guesthouse showcases jaw-dropping views of the surrounding tree canopy. The entire 40-foot span of the Connect 2 is turned into a wall of glass, an architectural maneuver made possible by the high-strength steel perimeter frame built into all Connect Homes.

This two-story Connect 12 was sited on a narrow, non-conforming lot in Menlo Park, California. Beneath towering heritage oaks, the 12-module home was positioned to engage with the generous front yard, and create seamless indoor/outdoor dining and living spaces.

This Connect 4 showcases panoramic ocean views in Malibu, California. A recovery effort after the Woolsey Fires, the home was craned in and carefully positioned on the coastal site — photo is taken at the end of install day. Connect Homes built five homes for Malibu homeowners after the fires, including a Connect 10 that was the first home back online.

The home that started it all, Connect Homes’ two-bedroom, two-bathroom Sonoma residence highlights the showstopping beauty of the Northern California countryside. Despite being assembled from the same core components, each semi-custom Connect Home is fine-tuned to its surroundings, perfectly exemplified in this Sonoma stunner.