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A Bespoke Approach

A Bespoke Approach

A Fresh Outlook

A Fresh Outlook

Close to Home

Close to Home

The Owner of an L.A. Neutra Doubles Its Living Space by Looking in the Unused Backyard

The Owner of an L.A. Neutra Doubles Its Living Space by Looking in the Unused Backyard

Budget Breakdown: A Kitchen Renovation Uses Sustainable Materials and Lush Wallpaper to Go Green

Budget Breakdown: A Kitchen Renovation Uses Sustainable Materials and Lush Wallpaper to Go Green

A San Antonio Property Is More About the Drought-Resistant Yard Than the Tiny Home It Surrounds

A San Antonio Property Is More About the Drought-Resistant Yard Than the Tiny Home It Surrounds

Two Cottages—Renovated Using Less Than $150K—Embrace Living With Kenya’s Wildlife

Two Cottages—Renovated Using Less Than $150K—Embrace Living With Kenya’s Wildlife

Cool Ranch: The Perfect Southern California Pool Is Behind a Midcentury in the Valley

Cool Ranch: The Perfect Southern California Pool Is Behind a Midcentury in the Valley

A Disused Historic Home in Argentina’s Cowboy Country Becomes a Young Family’s Rural Refuge

A Disused Historic Home in Argentina’s Cowboy Country Becomes a Young Family’s Rural Refuge

Did You Know the Visionary Behind the “Whole Earth Catalog” Lives on a Century-Old Tugboat?

Did You Know the Visionary Behind the “Whole Earth Catalog” Lives on a Century-Old Tugboat?

A Singapore Home Forgoes Air Conditioning (and Windows) to Take Living With Nature to an Extreme

A Singapore Home Forgoes Air Conditioning (and Windows) to Take Living With Nature to an Extreme

Budget Breakdown: They Built a Minimalist $437K ADU—to Live and Work Out of Themselves

Budget Breakdown: They Built a Minimalist $437K ADU—to Live and Work Out of Themselves

30 Families Wanted to Build a Home Together. Two Architects Tell Us How They Made It Happen

30 Families Wanted to Build a Home Together. Two Architects Tell Us How They Made It Happen

Turning Simple Materials and Recycled Finds Into a New-Old New Orleans Home

Turning Simple Materials and Recycled Finds Into a New-Old New Orleans Home

Here’s How Those Instagram Vintage Sellers Find Their Best Stuff

Here’s How Those Instagram Vintage Sellers Find Their Best Stuff

This Napa Family’s $226K ADU Repurposes Skateboard Wheels and Vineyard Stakes

This Napa Family’s $226K ADU Repurposes Skateboard Wheels and Vineyard Stakes

Budget Breakdown: They Built Their $60K Home to Preserve the Surrounding Forest

Budget Breakdown: They Built Their $60K Home to Preserve the Surrounding Forest

This $53K Kitchen Renovation Is the Anti-HGTV Aesthetic

This $53K Kitchen Renovation Is the Anti-HGTV Aesthetic

Furniture Designer Max Enrich Doesn’t Use His Massive Scissor Collection for What You Think

Furniture Designer Max Enrich Doesn’t Use His Massive Scissor Collection for What You Think

Why Are (Most) Sofas So Bad?

Why Are (Most) Sofas So Bad?

They Didn’t Just Want to Build a Housing Shelter. They Wanted to Shift Public Perception

They Didn’t Just Want to Build a Housing Shelter. They Wanted to Shift Public Perception

We Check in With Dwell’s First Editor-in-Chief About a House 20 Years in the Making

We Check in With Dwell’s First Editor-in-Chief About a House 20 Years in the Making

Nifemi Marcus-Bello Finds Inspiration in Lagos’s Culture of Recycling

Nifemi Marcus-Bello Finds Inspiration in Lagos’s Culture of Recycling

In Baja Sur, a Chef Turns a Historic Property Into a Compound for His Creative Community

In Baja Sur, a Chef Turns a Historic Property Into a Compound for His Creative Community

She Dreamed of Living in an Ancient Tower—and It Came True

She Dreamed of Living in an Ancient Tower—and It Came True

A Roaming Couple Recalibrate a 1975 Argosy for Creative Work and Off-Grid Bliss

A Roaming Couple Recalibrate a 1975 Argosy for Creative Work and Off-Grid Bliss

How John Cameron Mitchell Turned His New Orleans Home Into a Queer Art Church

How John Cameron Mitchell Turned His New Orleans Home Into a Queer Art Church

Your Home Doesn’t Need to Be “Smart”

Your Home Doesn’t Need to Be “Smart”

This Sculptural San Francisco Flat Is Anything But Cookie-Cutter

This Sculptural San Francisco Flat Is Anything But Cookie-Cutter

Creature Comforts

Creature Comforts

Architect Rick Cook Designed a Home for His Family—Then Discovered Someone Had Done It Better

Architect Rick Cook Designed a Home for His Family—Then Discovered Someone Had Done It Better

Two Vintage Furniture Dealers Remake a Maine Home to Fill With Their Prized Collection

Two Vintage Furniture Dealers Remake a Maine Home to Fill With Their Prized Collection

This Ohio Midcentury Had Charms—They Just Needed to Be Turned On

This Ohio Midcentury Had Charms—They Just Needed to Be Turned On

The Tide Turns for a Trio of Prefab Pod Houses in the San Juan Islands

The Tide Turns for a Trio of Prefab Pod Houses in the San Juan Islands

Who Owns Frank Lloyd Wright’s Legacy? It’s Complicated

Who Owns Frank Lloyd Wright’s Legacy? It’s Complicated

Why Architect Melissa Shin Adds Drawings of Smurfs to Her Project Plans

Why Architect Melissa Shin Adds Drawings of Smurfs to Her Project Plans

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