Guess used inexpensive graded pine plywood so that he would get heavy grain patterns on the surfaces. One of the main goals in the kitchen was simplicity. To that end, he opted for a poured-in-place concrete island. "We didn’t know if we could afford to do that, but we found a great subcontractor [Nate Francis of Countertop Creations] here who had never really built anything like that," Guess says. "Because he was interested in giving it a shot and adding it to his portfolio, he didn’t charge an exorbitant amount of money because it was sort of an experiment for him as well." The kitchen features a GE Profile refrigerator and KitchenAid range, microwave, and dishwasher. The sink and faucet are from Kohler. The project's builder was Joe Doherty with Custom Homecrafters of Austin.

The exterior is still clad in the original boards — Mitanidis guesses they’re either cedar or larch.

London's Athenaeum Hotel near Hyde Park features a side living wall designed by well, you guessed it, Patrick Blanc. (Pin).

The "secret room" has become a special space for the couple's grandchildren to enjoy. It is their playroom as well as a spot for special sleepovers. "I guess the short, sloped walls are a real draw for kids, like a playhouse, but with WiFi," Hixton says.

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A tight construction budget informed the choices Sean Guess made as he designed a house for a couple in Austin, Texas. Budget-minded materials, like the James Hardie fiber-cement siding, helped hold construction costs to $130 per square foot. Sherwin-Williams’s Cyberspace hue colors the exterior and Parakeet coats the custom kitchen cabinets by Austin Wood Works. The planter is made from Cor-Ten steel.

Guess which unit the buyer lives in?

Early Montessori toys, circa 1907 by, you guessed it—Maria Montessori

Demetrios brought in this pair of Eames chairs. Can you guess the knockoff? It's the one at right.

The newly opened space offers a great flow, perfect for entertaining. "Looking at the front facade, you'd never guess at the modern interior,

Can you guess what city this is? Lighting: Catacaos Ceiling by Boyd Lighting. Interior design by Mark Williams.

Our first post. I guess Spani-Dutch Colonials are the gateway drug to McMansions, Sprutalists, Archie Bunkers, mocktorians and garagemahals

While the townhouse is 35 feet deep, the widest space inside is 8-feet-1 inch and the narrowest point is two feet wide. As one might guess, the bathrooms probably feel exceptionally small.

The bedroom was carved out of the basement addition. With two window well windows providing ample light and inslab heating, you'd never guess that you're in a basement.

The Happy Family chairs for the Japanese company E&Y were modeled on the story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears. Guess which chair belongs to Baby Bear.

The building has a fondness for ellipses. This is due to the neighbouring building, the Felix Meritus, which has the country's first astronomy tower in the shape of, you guessed it, an ellipse.

Prevent any second guessing with this yellow flat kitchen scale by Escali. It's quite easy on the eyes, too—numbers can be read from far away. Comes in eleven other colors.

Before: The provenance of the zebra-striped tile in the bathroom was anyone’s guess. "I think there had been a previous tenant there who had bling-ed out the space in a 1970s bachelor pad sort of way," says McGee.

The Bubbles cushion was inspiried by, you guessed it—bubbles. The unique upholstering technique and the genius construction design has revived the traditional type of furniture and won the duo the 2013 IF Product Design Award.

Can you guess what the Abacus Table Lamp was named after? Each solid wooden disk is hand turned, hand sanded and hand polished for superior beauty. #lighting #tablelamp #Boydlighting #wood

“My main mission is not to be boring,” Lockhart Steele says. “We all know real estate news is so God awful boring! We wanted to be a bit more controversial, I guess you could call that subversive.”

"One thing that is highlighted by this project—and what I’m most interested in—is creating great architecture for limited means," Guess says. "When someone comes to me with constraints, I always feel like there's a better outcome in the end." The pouf, side table, and bookshelf are from CB2.

Lighting company Santa & Cole nabbed the award for—you guessed it—Best Lighting. We saw their BlancoWhite series of LED lights earlier this year during Stockholm Design Week and were thrilled to see it received more attention at ICFF.

It almost seems as if at some point it had been a triangular building with the gas station under it. I love the way it just sits on top of the small house, the wooden lattice work on the roof mirroring the patterns of the framing of the windows. My guess is that it was built in the 1960s.

This is me standing in our living room. I love how our place reflects who we are - I guess especially me since I picked 95% of the decor. My husband picked the appliances: washer/dryer, dish washer, coffee maker, cooktop.

The Communal Cabin: The off-white simplicity of these retreat huts might appear drab to some, but people always say, "location, location, location!" With your forested neighbors just a stones-throw away at this Pacific Northwest getaway spot, I guess you could call this cabin suburbia.

The Cummunal Cabin: The off-white simplicity of these retreat huts might appear drab to some, but people always say, "location, location, location!" With your forested neighbors just a stones-throw away at this Pacific Northwest getaway spot, I guess you could call this cabin suburbia.

"When Michael and his three classmates emailed me about a robotic kitchen that could elevate fast food, I was impressed," says Boulud. "Not only had they guessed my email address correctly, the videolink to their cutting edge technology was unlike anything I’d seen before."

You'd never guess by looking at it but Hadid's 1993 Fire Station for Vitra was in fact designed to be a working fire station. Vitra had experienced a devastating factory fire in 1980s in which half of the halls burned down and production came to a complete and total stop. The local town did not then have a fire station and so trucks from the next town over had to come to put it out.

2.5 KG CHAIR by BJÖRN DAHLSTRÖM Weighing in at, you guessed it, 2.5 kilograms Dahlström's chair weights about half of the industry average. He suggests that by stripping away at the mass of our objects we could achieve massive change—for 50,000 of these chairs 150 tons of processed wood could be saved.

We love a good renovation story—and more often than not, the "before" shots tell us more about a project than the final result. You'd never guess this dated living room was once the state of the Portland, Oregon, stunner we feature in the Sept. 2016 issue ("Backstory: Across the Board").

We'd hazard a guess that Quebecois shepherd's pie–Pate Chinois, the name of the collection by Domison– isn't the first thing that comes to mind when viewing the Montage sofa. The hearty recipe, however, provided tasty inspiration for the designers' mix-and-match of modular arms and backrests. Click here for more information on the Montage sofa.

The twisted “Segal Staircase” (“It’s almost like a ladder that spins around,” explains Jo)—a signature element in the neighborhoods’ homes—got a fresh look, with panelling in front of each stair and stabilizing poles. It also received a striking coat of turquoise paint. “I can’t remember the Pantone color, but needless to say there was a big argument about it for six months,” laughs Jo. “I guess I won.”

If you couldn't guess from his wooden clogs, Pieter Hoff is from Holland, a country built on green energy and democratic desire, largely below sea-level. He's now using mother nature's example to regenerate tree in areas thought to be unsalvageable—like stripmines—with his innovative Groasis waterboxx, the small green pot on the left.

At first glance, you’d never guess this playground was built with recycled wind turbine blades. The prevalence of windmills in the Netherlands inspired architect group 2012Architecten to re-imagine ways to use scrap parts. This playground celebrates Dutch industrial culture with originality, modernity, and most of all – safety. Its simplicity reminds us that imagination is the prerequisite for fun.