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Ash cabinetry and stainless steel appliances in the kitchen and living room.

A full height fireplace intersects the barrel vaulted ceiling between the living and dining areas.

The Great Room features a barrel vaulted ceiling punctuated with several skylights.

Glass sliding doors allow the living and dining areas to open up to the garden, so that the family can easily entertain. “The living room and dinning room are lined in wood to give them a warm feeling in contrast to the concrete floor and ceiling,” says Cesarman. The concrete wall features a chimney crafted of black granite for added visual interest.

Living room and the kitchen island

Seamless silver fir panels known as “Täfer” cover the interior walls and ceiling. “In old farmhouses in lower Austria, it’s traditional to cover interior surfaces with wood, and we wanted to continue this tradition in our new building to give the clients a cozy atmosphere,” Klauser says. The architect selected rustic parquet and slate stone flooring for the combination living-cooking area that continues the idea of connecting old and new.

Moreau and the owners set out to achieve a light-filled, open-concept home that makes family time effortless. “To achieve this open layout, we had to demolish bearing walls on the ground floor, transfer loads, and work with a complex steel structure [to support the second floor],” Moreau says. White oak was installed in a playful chevron design throughout the ground floor.

Barbara Hill's re-envisioning of her Houston condo involved a different sort of minimalism: rather than yearning for sleek, expensive surfaces, she wanted a home that included all the blemishes that remain when you strip these features away.

The couple gather in the central dining room, with a bamboo table by Greenington and chairs from West Elm. The pendants are by Mark Chai Arts; the tapestry is by Máximo Laura.

A view of the dining room from the courtyard.

Mandel designed a six-by-eight-foot extension for additional space on the ground floor.

Shelly walks along the perimeter of the house, near the central living area. The design of the house, with its many rooms, nooks, and open family spaces, "was so ahead of its time," Shelly says, "that, to young people coming here, it still feels contemporary."

Groupings of succulents accent the home’s entry path and pool area.

Large sliding doors connect the living room to both the courtyard and a covered porch on the western side of the house.

Stained cedar, ipe, and concrete form the palette of this modern, verdant 2,500-square-foot home in Kansas City. Indigenous wildflowers and native grasses grow on top of the structure; this planted roof also helps insulate the home and limited its energy needs.

A palette of stone, concrete, and greenery greets guests at the home’s front entrance.