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In the living room, there's a chair and rug from FÜÜR.

Julie Mølsgaard's clever cubic shelf hosts a rotating selection of Jette's ceramics, picked up from travels and auctions over the years.

A custom-designed oak grid shelf by Julie Mølsgaard provides a striking framework for Jette's prized collection of ceramics.

Malcolm Davis Architecture helps a family roll back years of hodgepodge additions while opening the rear facade to the garden.

The shelves and the hidden bar are painted a delightful ‘Tarrytown Green’ by Benjamin Moore.

The custom-designed white maple modular coffee table can be kept together as one piece, or separated to form stools or smaller tables. "Each of the four cubes is slightly different, with a storage recess or dividing panel for stowing books, magazines, pillows, or other objects," says Thomas.

"I always knew there had to be a sight line from the living room to the kitchen, all the way to the back of the house," says Alex. "That really opened up everything [like], ‘Oh, yeah, this is the way it's supposed to be.’"

An elegant steel-framed glass door sweeps out from a dramatic entryway.

Jetsetting Jette worked with a landscape designer to select easy-to-care grasses and plants that would take care of themselves during her travels – though she's been spending a lot more time together with them over the past year.

Salminen built the bunk beds out of birch, Finland’s most plentiful tree species, for the couple’s children.

A kitchenette in the ADU is matte black with shelves matching the walls to recess into the background.

The Wishbone stools at the kitchen island were sourced from Rove Concepts.

After: "We don't believe in the hierarchy of materials,

Parlor floor kitchen

Main bathroom to bedroom connection

Parlor floor living area

In the bedroom, the design team removed all trim and installed full-height closet doors.

A Kado Lussi freestanding bathtub anchors the shared bathroom.