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A laminated plexiglass screen adds a retro-contemporary flavor to this renovated 1950s row house.
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A cozy and convenient shoe bench helps organize a Concord, Mass., remodel.
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A traditional stair made of wide-plank character oak treads with a mahogany handrail and custom balustrade stands out for its elegance and refinement.
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Standard industrial shelving components form the structural frame of a small, elegant custom home.
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If only every architect spent as much time thinking about the underside of a staircase as Cathi House does.
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A suspended meditation chamber—a pod of serentiy— forms the physical and spiritual core of a Bethesda, Md., residence designed by David Jameson Architect and built by Added Dimensions.
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The centerpiece of a remodel that joined two existing San Francisco row houses into a strikingly modern residence, this flowing stair provides both circulation and sculptural interest.
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Built-in drawers do double duty as storage and guard rail.
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Why add another bedroom to an already packed program when it's only going to be used a few days per year?
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One of the hallmarks of a well-designed custom home is the intersection of beautiful form with prosaic function. In the hands of a deft designer or clever craftsman a basic safety feature—like a guard rail—becomes eye-catching storage, as in the projects shown in this article.
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At an ordinary site meeting late in the building process, the owner mentioned how he and his family liked the way root outcroppings formed over rocks and “an idea took root,” puns Brad Gardner, vice president of production for Boston-based F.H. Perry Builder.
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Citing its “delicious proportions” and “undulating” presence, the judges compared this dramatic entryway to “a very elegant wedding cake” that celebrates the home's ubiquitous views of the Lieutenant River.
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A bed is a microcosm of the house, a shelter within a shelter, says architect Mark Simon, who frequently designs built-in beds as part of a home's architecture. A built-in bed saves space when it includes compact, convenient storage, and it can free the room to focus on other things like a great...
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A four-story atrium, filled with rocks hand-picked from the rugged mountainside site, bisects this Boulder, Colo., home.
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Hobson Crow, AIA, felt the architectural details throughout this art collector's Austin, Texas, home, also should be works of art.
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A center stair in an open plan calls for something distinguished, but for this Bay area home that something had to be in keeping with its modest bungalow setting.
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“We wanted the stair to be sculptural because it's the first thing you see when you walk in the door, but it also has to lead you upstairs where the living spaces of the house are,” says Steven House of the multi-purpose stair design in this San Francisco home.
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It's not the main entrance, but this mud room entry is the one most frequented by the homeowners, so architect Jan Gleysteen felt it deserved a casual grandeur of its own.
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Expanding the breadth and width of treads at the bottom of a staircase for effect as well as ad hoc seating is a practice dating back to ancient Greece, observes architect Steven House.