Hover above the tree line just outside of Montreal, Canada, and there you will discover a picture-perfect cottage aptly named: Window on the Lake. Continue reading →

Don’t bother calling the cleaners, because this A-frame house is as neat and tidy as they come! Perched in the tree-lined mountains of Montreal, Canada, this cabin renovation is a brilliant collaboration between architect Jean Verville and the clients who call this space home. Continue reading →

Set in Santiago, Chile, this small cabin is a mountaineer’s refuge; a sanctuary getaway after the trek it apparently takes to get there, making this space both a shelter and the ideal shut-in. Continue reading →

This beautiful, modern cabin has not one, not two, but sixteen points of entry within it’s 1350 square feet of spaciousness. Continue reading →

In what was initially planned as a storage shed deep in the forest near Montreal, CA, the La Colombiere was transformed into a modern mountain refuge that was designed to maintain the existing footprint of the shed while providing views, lodging, and usable space for the owners. The home was designed by YH2 and represents a bizarre, but intriguing metamorphosis of an existing structure into something that promotes views, respects the landscape, and zigzags visitors through a visual maze of wood, plaster, and blackened steel. Continue reading →

Welcome back to the 1950s, an era when simplicity prevailed and beauty was timeless, which is very much reflected in this chic beach home, expertly remodeled courtesy of Sally Draper Architects. Continue reading →

Parts of Norway are among the most remote, naturally stunning locations on the planet. The Infinity House by Vladimir Konovalov Architecture takes full advantage of one such place, planting an isolated modern cabin in a place most humans wouldn’t have the fortitude to dare reach. The house is unique not only it where it exists, but in how it is expressed from a material, spatial, and architectural standpoint. Continue reading →

Situated in Montreal, Canada, this modern, Nordic-inspired lake cottage have taken the owners of this dwelling from their city home, and placed them into this epic cottage hideaway they now call home. Continue reading →

Welcome home to the shabby chic work of art known as the Topanga Home. A 1927 original hunting lodge that has been transformed into a simplistic beauty, all without forgoing any of it’s original features. Continue reading →

15 miles north of the Mexican border in Arizona rests the Casa Caldera, a quaint and serene marvel in residential modernism that doesn’t rest on the ground so much as it disappears into it. Tucson based architecture firm DUST have painted a nostalgic desert masterpiece that carefully measures materiality versus ecology, protection versus exposure, man-made versus natural. It carries with it an intimate relationship with the land it occupies, and is a contemporary case study of how good residential architecture can be. Continue reading →