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A custom three-sided banquette elegantly organizes a kitchen great room.
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Built-in drawers do double duty as storage and guard rail.
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It's a question frequently posed by clients: How can we open up the kitchen and still hide dirty dishes?
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The owners of this North Kingston, R.I., home had seen a house by custom builder Gardner Woodrights that featured English chestnut cabinets.
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Tree houses have grown beyond a few haphazardly assembled scraps of lumber nailed to a trunk. While tree house builders still use leftover materials, new techniques allow large, amenity-filled structures to be built without endangering the tree or the users.
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When upper cabinets gave way to windows in the remodeled kitchen of this historic Washington, D.C., home, architect Devon Perkins from Cunningham + Quill Architects replaced the lost storage space by beefing up the wall between dining room and kitchen.
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Not just for kids, built-in bunk beds offer fun and function in a compact space. Including a bunk room in a house that sees a lot of visitors makes good square-footage sense. "We utilize all of the little niches," says Brian Bosgraaf, president of design/build firm Cottage Home. They can provide a...
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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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Most families are too active these days to close themselves off in a separate room to watch TV, so it's no surprise that built-in TV screens are showing up all over the house. But no one wants to see all of the boxes, control panels, and cords that accompany increasingly sleek televisions. Custom...
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The owners of this Arlington, Texas, house have three children and a passion for traveling, so it is only natural that they included a room in their new home devoted to sparking their kids' imagination about exotic locales. The client asked builder Michael Wood of Dallas-based Providence Homes to...
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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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This 1,100-square-foot vacation home in Aspen, Colo., may be short on space, but it's big on ideas that make a place for everything, even the owners' two kids.
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The combo kitchen and informal eating nook in this Pepper Pike, Ohio, home had varied ceiling heights and shapes, so architect Fred Margulies used a wood panel to tie the rooms together as well as to create a focal point in the 450-square-foot space.
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Traditional Japanese Tansu cabinets inspired stepped storage underpinning the staircase in architect Sandra Vivanco's remodeled Edwardian home.
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This rural Montana master bedroom features a window seat cabinet with a covert purpose. The width is the same as a queen size mattress, so the concrete and vertical grain Douglas fir built-in can double as a headboard when the owner wants to rearrange the room.
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“Stealth architecture,” is how Mark Hutker depicts the transformation of an open 8-by-8-foot hallway alcove into a guest bedroom.
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The built-in window seat in a Camden, Maine, kitchen grew out of storage necessity but is now the place to catch early morning rays and sip coffee.
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The owner of this Martha's Vineyard weekend cottage wanted the interior to feel like a boat, so architect Doug Breer chose built-ins and floor-to-ceiling clear grain Douglas fir to execute the look. A window seat with a flip-up top provides a convenient spot to take off and store dusty shoes, which...
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The fixed bench above a deep rolling drawer looks like an integral part of the cabinetry and the painted wood matches metal counterparts with crisp edges and a recessed toekick.