Budget Breakdown: A Kitchen Renovation Uses Sustainable Materials and Lush Wallpaper to Go Green An appliance update turned into a full-on remodel in this Portland, Oregon, family's home.
Budget Breakdown: A $336K Cottage Renovation Gives an Oregon Widow a Fresh Start Barbara McDonald’s architect son updated the 1946 home by raising the ceilings, opening the floor plan, and installing low-cost,...
Budget Breakdown: They Gave a Legendary Artist’s Home an Era-Appropriate Revamp for $442K For a family of four, Ueda Design Studio restores the luminous-yet-drafty midcentury home of Alden Mason with warm materials and...
Budget Breakdown: Near Melbourne, Former Bandmates Make a Modest House Sing for $290K The countryside residence favors simple, sustainable moves over square footage, and strategically captures views without walls of...
Near Joshua Tree, a Sublime Desert Home Embraces Shadows and Sunlight Drawing inspiration from Japanese architecture and beach umbrellas planted in the sand, Mapa Architects crafts a calming escape...
He Only Built One Home—So They Gave It a Singular Renovation A thoughtful restoration celebrates the only house ever built by architect and activist Kazuo Umemoto.
Before & After: They Loved Their Cozy Cottage, So They a Built an Annex to Match In leafy northwest Washington, D.C., a two-story addition expands a 1936 home without overwhelming it.
A California Retreat Has Walls Made Out of the Beach Field Architecture harvested this sandcastle’s site to create panels that match the sparkling Carmel coast.
The Coolest Indoor Tree House Is Tucked Away in This Stately Tudor Architect Sonya Lee hides a custom, birch-plywood escape inside a typical Queens home.
This L.A. Home Hides a Second Story Beneath Its Steeply Pitched Roof “It’s almost an optical illusion,” says designer Robert Sweet about the Manhattan Beach residence’s massive gable.
Budget Breakdown: They DIYed a $212K ADU—and Loved It So Much That They Moved Right In A Seattle couple built their own backyard house with a city-sponsored design—and then rented out their old home on the property...
Budget Breakdown: Two Retired Teachers Build Oregon’s First All-CLT House for $591K Surrounded by forest and accessed via a fairy-tale bridge, the resilient forever home showcases the strength of cross-laminated...
Before & After: This Reinvented Monterey Bungalow Shows That Sometimes, Smaller Is Better Architect Merritt Amanti Palminteri redesigns her family home to add volume, flow, and infinite charm without changing the...
A Floating Living Room Sets a Family’s Lake Michigan Cottage Apart From the Rest The elevated glass-wrapped space juts out from the two-level plan, giving a unique perspective of the waterfront setting.
What Does It Take to #VanLife as a Family? Two couples with young children—road veterans and complete newbies—share how they make close quarters on the go work for them.
Before & After: A Couple Fix Up an Heirloom Cottage in the Town Where They First Met The refreshed, third-generation beach house embraces its place between the dunes and wetlands of Neskowin, Oregon.
Budget Breakdown: An Indiana Couple Hand-Build the Farmhouse of Their Dreams for $166K The proprietors of the furniture company Siosi take on a bigger project: their own home.
Budget Breakdown: A Woodworker Couple Make $10K Go the Distance Renovating a 2006 Camper Following a flurry of work during the pandemic, Casey and Brandon Smith refashioned a ho-hum trailer as a ’70s-inspired...
This Overhauled Airstream Feels Less Like a Trailer and More Like a House Two friends fit out a vintage camper with wide-open spaces, fresh white oak, and waterfall terrazzo—and launch a business in the...
Budget Breakdown: An Architect DIYs a Luminous Work Shed for $10K Tim Vander Hoek designs and builds a 60-square-foot office using a mix of lumber and a hallmark wraparound acrylic clerestory.
Budget Breakdown: An Architect Builds an Experimental Garden Studio for Less Than £5K In the British countryside, Stirling Prize nominee Michael Dillon builds a tiny office as an exercise in low-carbon, low-cost...
Before & After: An Architect Levels Up His Tiny Seattle Cottage With a Soaring Skylight Clint Bailey tears down walls and breaks through the ceiling to fill his 700-square-foot home with natural light and new living...
Can’t Decide Between a Boat or RV? This $130K Travel Trailer Promises to Do Both With sideboards that open to become pontoons, the Caracat is designed to go from land to water and back again.
A T-Shaped Cabin Hugs a Forested Hillside in Chile Its three arms stretch out to catch the best views of Ranco Lake and the Andes Mountains.
A Creative Couple’s Lovingly Revamped Seattle Condo Lists for $420K As architect Hank Butitta and artist Nell Nordlie say goodbye to their 512-square-foot home, they hope its next owner will...
A Cabin Springs Up Above a Dry Creek Bed in a Chilean Forest On a rocky bank, Hebra Arquitectos builds a breezy home that opens wide to nature.
Snag This Fire Island Beach House by Modernist Architect Horace Gifford for $3.75M Built in 1967, the cedar-and-glass residence features dramatic, barrel-vaulted ceilings that extend to an oceanfront deck.
The Home of “The Man Who Built Big Sur” Lists for $7M The longtime residence of late architect Mickey Muennig comprises three curvaceous, glass-roofed structures situated on 30 acres...
An Abandoned Boathouse Catches a Second Wind as a Shipshape Tiny Home Toronto architect Gregory Neudorf creates a pristine and practical 400-square-foot dwelling with nautical storage below deck.
A Carefully Converted Loft Near Barcelona’s Sagrada Família Asks €1.45M The renovation maintains original elements of the 1961 factory including brick walls, hardwood floors, barrel-vaulted ceilings,...
A Greenhouse-Like Home by the 2021 Pritzker Prize Winners Asks €695K in France Designed in 1993 by architects Anne Lacaton and Jean-Philippe Vassal, the two-level home comprises a wooden volume placed inside...
A London Mews Home With a Subterranean Dance Floor Asks £3.8M Behind a modest brick exterior in Kensington, an expansive contemporary home built half underground is full of light, color, and...
A Marvelous Steel-and-Glass Midcentury Asks $5 Million in Los Angeles Built by local modernist architect Bernard Zimmerman for celebrity clothier Leland Zeidler, the 4,400-square-foot home features...
This Flat-Pack Prefab Is Designed With Remote Living in Mind In Australia, a manufacturer and an architecture firm create an off-grid home that can be broken down and shipped across the...
A Suburban Los Angeles Midcentury With Ample Outdoor Space Asks $1.7 Million At the foot of the San Gabriel Mountains in Altadena, California, this four-bedroom 1947 house is a place to live, work, and...
A Punched-Up Brooklyn Townhouse Holds Three New Condos Starting at $1.2M Overlay Office turns an 1899 building in South Slope into bright, two-bedroom units that have plenty of graphic flair.