View of the Living Room. Sliding art panel covers recessed TV when not in use.

Mark Woods

©Eliot Cohen - Zeitgeist Photography

Photos By: Simon Berlyn Architecture By: Hayne Architects Project Management By: Matt Myers

Living Room

The lower level of this modern farmhouse features a large game room that connects out to the screen porch, pool terrace and fire pit beyond. One end of the space is a large lounge area for watching TV and the other end has a built-in wet bar and accordion windows that open up to the screen porch. The TV is concealed by barn doors with salvaged barn wood on a shiplap wall. Photography by Todd Crawford

Spacecrafting Photography

This transitional timber frame home features a wrap-around porch designed to take advantage of its lakeside setting and mountain views. Natural stone, including river rock, granite and Tennessee field stone, is combined with wavy edge siding and a cedar shingle roof to marry the exterior of the home with it surroundings. Casually elegant interiors flow into generous outdoor living spaces that highlight natural materials and create a connection between the indoors and outdoors. Photography Credit: Rebecca Lehde, Inspiro 8 Studios

photography by james ray spahn

Larry Asam Photography

A massive 12 foot wide sliding door (coated with a layer of chalkboard paint) obscures the media room. This 1966 Northwest contemporary design by noted architect Paul Kirk has been extended and reordered to create a 2400 square foot home with comfortable living/dining/kitchen area, open stair, and third bedroom plus children's bath. The power of the original design continues with walls that wrap over to create a roof. Original cedar-clad interior walls and ceiling were brightened with added glass and up to date lighting. photos by Will Austin

By PMK+designers http://www.facebook.com/PmkDesigners http://fotologue.jp/pmk Designer: Kevin Yang Project Manager: Hsu Wen-Hung Project Name: Lai Residence Location: Kaohsiung City, Taiwan Photography by: Joey Liu This two-story penthouse apartment embodies many of PMK’s ideas about integration between space, architecture, urban living, and spirituality into everyday life. Designed for a young couple with a recent newborn daughter, this residence is centered on a common area on the lower floor that supports a wide range of activities, from cooking and dining, family entertainment and music, as well as coming together as a family by its visually seamless transitions from inside to outside to merge the house into its’ cityscape. The large two-story volume of the living area keeps the second floor connected containing a semi-private master bedroom, walk-in closet and master bath, plus a separate private study. The integrity of the home’s materials was also an important factor in the design—solid woods, concrete, and raw metal were selected because they stand up to day to day needs of a family’s use yet look even better with age. Brick wall surfaces are carefully placed for the display of art and objects, so that these elements are integrated into the architectural fabric of the space.

Photo credit: Michele Scotto | Sequined Asphault Studio

The Family living in this former show home in an exclusive golf course community needed to grow the home to better suit their lifestyle. With an addition, I pay close attention to the period style of the original home and feel it should reflect those features. This detached addition echoes the antebellum design of the original home and that typical of an out building of that region. The material palette of stone foundation, lap board siding and metal roof, reinforce that decision. The Kitchen / Living Area and loft share a vaulted ceiling that serves as a canvas continually changing as the sun moves across the sky casting various rays and colors of light throughout the day.

Suzanna Scott