The homeowners envisioned a design where the house wraps around an open courtyard, seamlessly blending indoor and outdoor living. The primary goal was to ensure the main living area, outdoor spaces, and pool all face the stunning view. With a love for capturing sunsets and hosting gatherings, the home was built for entertaining, featuring expansive open spaces and a strong connection between the interior and exterior. A separate wing provides the teenagers with privacy, while the open courtyard maintains a visual connection due to the open courtyard. The spacious kitchen flows effortlessly into the dining and living areas, creating a large, open-concept layout perfect for family and guests.

The homeowners envisioned a design where the house wraps around an open courtyard, seamlessly blending indoor and outdoor living. The primary goal was to ensure the main living area, outdoor spaces, and pool all face the stunning view. With a love for capturing sunsets and hosting gatherings, the home was built for entertaining, featuring expansive open spaces and a strong connection between the interior and exterior. A separate wing provides the teenagers with privacy, while the open courtyard maintains a visual connection due to the open courtyard. The spacious kitchen flows effortlessly into the dining and living areas, creating a large, open-concept layout perfect for family and guests.

Contemporary private villa in Miami, Florida, with an infinity-edge pool framed by Exterpark Tech Cube composite decking in the Plata finish. The silver-grey boards wrap the pool and run along the coping, creating a continuous, low-maintenance surface between the house and the tropical garden. Exterpark Tech is made from bamboo powder and recycled polyethylene, with 95% recycled content, and is designed to perform in strong sun, humidity and around pool water.

A contemporary kitchen within a full Dublin home renovation, designed to maximise light, storage and flow. Deep-toned cabinetry contrasts with soft timber chevron flooring, while the layout frames a strong visual connection through to the rear of the home. Integrated storage and clean detailing create a calm, functional space tailored to modern family living.

The homeowners envisioned a design where the house wraps around an open courtyard, seamlessly blending indoor and outdoor living. The primary goal was to ensure the main living area, outdoor spaces, and pool all face the stunning view. With a love for capturing sunsets and hosting gatherings, the home was built for entertaining, featuring expansive open spaces and a strong connection between the interior and exterior. A separate wing provides the teenagers with privacy, while the open courtyard maintains a visual connection due to the open courtyard. The spacious kitchen flows effortlessly into the dining and living areas, creating a large, open-concept layout perfect for family and guests.

The homeowners envisioned a design where the house wraps around an open courtyard, seamlessly blending indoor and outdoor living. The primary goal was to ensure the main living area, outdoor spaces, and pool all face the stunning view. With a love for capturing sunsets and hosting gatherings, the home was built for entertaining, featuring expansive open spaces and a strong connection between the interior and exterior. A separate wing provides the teenagers with privacy, while the open courtyard maintains a visual connection due to the open courtyard. The spacious kitchen flows effortlessly into the dining and living areas, creating a large, open-concept layout perfect for family and guests.

The homeowners envisioned a design where the house wraps around an open courtyard, seamlessly blending indoor and outdoor living. The primary goal was to ensure the main living area, outdoor spaces, and pool all face the stunning view. With a love for capturing sunsets and hosting gatherings, the home was built for entertaining, featuring expansive open spaces and a strong connection between the interior and exterior. A separate wing provides the teenagers with privacy, while the open courtyard maintains a visual connection due to the open courtyard. The spacious kitchen flows effortlessly into the dining and living areas, creating a large, open-concept layout perfect for family and guests.

The homeowners envisioned a design where the house wraps around an open courtyard, seamlessly blending indoor and outdoor living. The primary goal was to ensure the main living area, outdoor spaces, and pool all face the stunning view. With a love for capturing sunsets and hosting gatherings, the home was built for entertaining, featuring expansive open spaces and a strong connection between the interior and exterior. A separate wing provides the teenagers with privacy, while the open courtyard maintains a visual connection due to the open courtyard. The spacious kitchen flows effortlessly into the dining and living areas, creating a large, open-concept layout perfect for family and guests.

Creating a contemporary garden with an existing landscape can sometimes be a challenge especially if the existing architecture and landscape features may not be as modern feeling as one might want. Introducing carefully chosen elements with clean linear features and strong lines can all help to update a landscape to a much more modern standard. Deliberate materials and paving elements combined with stainless steel, glass and composite decking along with colourful planters to add that “pop” have all done much to transform this existing landscape while working with the existing pool and house architecture.

Luxury bathroom with a 'hotel feeling' in a loft in Antwerp. A moody atmosphere is created with a material palette consisting of black Nero Marquina marble from Spain, dark stained Walnut panelling, concrete flooring and patinated bronze detailing. Bronze detailing is continued in the floor to accentuate the strong lines and geometric shapes. Photo by: Thomas De Bruyne

Picture this: a large-scale renovation and addition, a dream team collaboration with Krieger Klatt Architects, Mosher Dolan, and Whitmer Design, and clients who wanted it all. Timeless? Yes. Eclectic? Absolutely. Funky yet grounded in tradition? You bet. Our clients desired a space that was both enduringly classic and delightfully unique—and we delivered. Our clients craved a space that was functional for a bustling family life (hello, kids and constant entertaining!) but also a showstopper. The goal? To create a timeless kitchen and pantry that felt like an extension of the home's traditional bones while making a strong statement. Challenge accepted.

The homeowners envisioned a design where the house wraps around an open courtyard, seamlessly blending indoor and outdoor living. The primary goal was to ensure the main living area, outdoor spaces, and pool all face the stunning view. With a love for capturing sunsets and hosting gatherings, the home was built for entertaining, featuring expansive open spaces and a strong connection between the interior and exterior. A separate wing provides the teenagers with privacy, while the open courtyard maintains a visual connection due to the open courtyard. The spacious kitchen flows effortlessly into the dining and living areas, creating a large, open-concept layout perfect for family and guests.

The freestanding clawfoot tub sits beneath a pitched plank ceiling, creating a sheltered bathing area with a strong vertical focus. An exposed brass shower riser draws the eye upward, while a dark timber ridge beam and leaning ladder contrast with the white-painted walls and pale floorboards. A small wood stool and loosely arranged towels reinforce the room’s simple domestic character. Soft side light highlights the tub’s curved profile and the texture of the boards. Traditional cottage influences give this space a quiet, nostalgic warmth that encourages rest and unhurried comfort.

The homeowners envisioned a design where the house wraps around an open courtyard, seamlessly blending indoor and outdoor living. The primary goal was to ensure the main living area, outdoor spaces, and pool all face the stunning view. With a love for capturing sunsets and hosting gatherings, the home was built for entertaining, featuring expansive open spaces and a strong connection between the interior and exterior. A separate wing provides the teenagers with privacy, while the open courtyard maintains a visual connection due to the open courtyard. The spacious kitchen flows effortlessly into the dining and living areas, creating a large, open-concept layout perfect for family and guests.

This home features a bold modern exterior with a flat roofline, standout architectural element is the elevated front entry bridge, crafted with composite decking and sleek black cable railing, which creates a dramatic and contemporary approach to the home. The bridge leads to a wide concrete staircase, reinforcing the strong linear design and modern curb appeal.”

The homeowners envisioned a design where the house wraps around an open courtyard, seamlessly blending indoor and outdoor living. The primary goal was to ensure the main living area, outdoor spaces, and pool all face the stunning view. With a love for capturing sunsets and hosting gatherings, the home was built for entertaining, featuring expansive open spaces and a strong connection between the interior and exterior. A separate wing provides the teenagers with privacy, while the open courtyard maintains a visual connection due to the open courtyard. The spacious kitchen flows effortlessly into the dining and living areas, creating a large, open-concept layout perfect for family and guests.

Jacob Lilley Architects Location: Sudbury, MA, USA On a beautiful piece of property west of Boston, we have been asked to design and site a new home for a family of six. The house has been sited to maximize views to an adjacent pond and private outdoor spaces for family recreating. The design of the house is an ‘L’ scheme that creates a courtyard entry and includes porch elements to insure a strong connection from inside to outdoor spaces. Photographed by: Greg Premrue

Tracie McIntyre; This garden follows the architecture of the house which was completely redesigned to reflect the owner's love of Mission style architecture. Palms of various sizes are massed to provide the structure which they lack on their own. Sizeable ferns throughout the garden provide and underlying texture and dynamism. Annuals in hot colours, bananas and coleus provide seasonal thrill. The highly textured foliage of Albizzias add an exotic note and will, over time, increase the play of light and shadow in the garden. The biggest challenge was creating a relationship between the house, which sits high on the lot, and the garden. A strong sense of indoor outdoor connection was achieved from both the basement and main level of the house by creating landings and enclosed courtyards ensconced by generously filled planters that lead up to the main garden.

Large trendy brown two-story wood house exterior photo in San Francisco with a hip roof and a metal roof