This modern California home is warm and inviting, enjoying beautiful views from every floor via large glazed openings in the front and rear of the house, that blend between indoor and outdoor spaces, and a roof deck overlooking the surrounding San Francisco hills. Continue reading →

Check out these beautiful small prefabs – a collection of micro-buildings that are sustainable, fast to erect and extremely versatile and adaptable. What started as ‘sheds for living’ later became dwelle.ings. which offer various prefabricated units from 7.5 to 24 sq. meters models, which could serve as home offices, garden studios, playrooms and guest accommodation or maybe even a home gym with sauna and hot tub. Continue reading →

The town of Stowe lies in a broad, fertile valley in Vermont, surrounded by beautiful forests and mountains. Sounds like the perfect place for this small meditation pavilion – a place to sit quietly while observing nature and the surrounding landscape with a sense of stillness and transcendence. Continue reading →

The Hill House is a small sustainable cabin that sits on a long, narrow, rocky hillside, in a beautiful wooded area in Winthrop, Washington, approx. 190 miles NE of Seattle. Continue reading →

Who wouldn’t want a house in the countryside. A holiday home that has been tailored for your needs, where you can relax, take long walks and enjoy the fresh air. Two young art collectors are fortunate to call this beautiful modern home their country house. Continue reading →

This desert home has an impressive structure that blends beautifully with the surroundings of Tuscon, Arizona. Its total space of 2,150 sq. ft features high ceilings with large glazed openings that frame and reflect beautiful desert views. Continue reading →

Even if you have an unusually narrow lot combined with strict building restrictions, do not despair for there is always a way. Take for example the Galley House in Toronto’s Roncesvalles neighborhood; this 12-foot-wide family home has an extremely snug fit but is also highly functional and beautiful. Continue reading →

This very unique garden shed is inspired by a book by American writer and philosopher Henry David Thorea, called ‘Walden; Or, Life in the woods‘. The story details Thoreau’s life and his relationship with nature, where he experienced simple living and self-sufficiency, over the course of two years in a cozy 10′ x 15’ cabin he built near Walden Pond, Massachusetts. Sounds great, right? Well, the story influenced this three feet wide and two stories tall garden-shed, which invites one to live outdoors. Continue reading →

Sophie’s Terrace is located at the foot of the magnificent Chartreuse Mountains in eastern France. I wouldn’t call it a treehouse per se, but more of an open space with a panoramic view, built 7.5 meters high on an Austrian pine tree on the edge of a grove – the perfect place to enjoy fabulous summer days and warm nights under the stars. Continue reading →

Back in 2001 Matthew and Maria Salenger were looking for a way to run an art and architectural design studio out of their small 1950’s three-bedroom Tempe home. They could have chosen to extend their compact home and build an addition to create more space, but no, they’ve decided on a new way of living, working, sleeping, and building in suburbia, by constructing a pair of narrow, 30-foot-long steel pods in their backyard. Continue reading →