The relocated master suite of this existing Japanese-style home was updated with a warm spa-like quality and adjacent master bath, deliberately left open to the bedroom.

For her Manhattan kitchen, Emmett Roepke’s film-producer client wanted a modern overhaul that was nonetheless mellow enough to let her cooking take center stage.

“This project was a study in urban bachelor-pad living,” says architect Cass Calder Smith of a two-story San Francisco house he built for a single 30-something. 

Casa Domus was just another model home in another Mexico City-area subdivision when an Italian furniture importer and her husband purchased it, and subsequently asked the developer to leave any outstanding interior work unfinished.

In renovating a historic Vancouver residence, local firm Hotson Bakker Boniface Haden achieved a deft melding of old and new that centers on an exuberantly hued, light-strewn kitchen.

Painting pictures with words would seem to be a lawyer’s strength.

Apparently, even in a place like Mautern, Austria, just 37 miles west of Vienna and a few hundred yards from the Danube, there are dreary, poorly constructed homes.