Modern Across America

Three mattress companies offer innovative updates along with domestic production.

Stocked with green features, the 1,157-square-foot retreat provides its owner peace of mind through its clean-lined architecture.

Often, we cleanse our duds in a wasteland of half-forgotten detergent bottles and dryer-sheet-detritus.

Inside the shell of the Oyster House lies a new shape for affordable housing.

Accessed via an outdoor staircase, the four-level house boasts a prime vantage point from which to soak up the bucolic lakeside scenery.

In Bucks County, Pennsylvania, Danny Seo looked to “Made in the USA” goods to forge his new cooking space’s identity.

A chance encounter led the Dallas pair to a neighborhood of architect-designed homes where nature is prized as much as aesthetic, and houses are built to make the most of both.

Plagued by remodeling pitfalls, two tenacious homeowners reinvent a soggy 1960s residence outside Seattle as a modern masterpiece.

A natural disaster cleared a property in the Colorado mountains, giving an architect and her family a blank slate on which to build their green dream home.

After a modern renovation, the 1920s commercial building begins a fresh chapter for an Auburn University faculty member and his family.

Andrew Moss and his wife rolled up their sleeves to create a cost-effective house for themselves and their teenage children, relying largely on salvaged materials.

At Sea Ranch, the famed modernist enclave of rugged residences on the Northern California coast, a new house captures the spirit of its surroundings.

For a couple coping with the disease in Tacoma, Washington, a thoughtful addition creates a comfortable, long-term solution.

Architect Craig Steely’s first substantial structure in site-poured concrete reflects its craggy surroundings.

After a devastating fire, architect David Salmela designs a new house to replace a beloved retreat in Door County.