House of the Lions transforms a medieval tower apartment in Siena, Italy, into a contemporary B&B with a richly tactile interior. Catoni Associati works inside the historic shell with light steel and glass structures, colored cement tiles, and a mix of vintage, classic, and contemporary furnishings. Guests move through rooms where original ceilings, brickwork, and layered surfaces stay present yet comfortably reinhabited.

Nepita sits among pines and olive trees in Palazzolo Acreide, Italy, where DAA Studio reworks a 1990s country house into a precise play of volumes and color. The house becomes a collected retreat, its three blocks clarified through bold facades, tactile finishes, and a renewed relationship between living, sleeping, and cooking. Inside and out, the project turns memory into a clear, contemporary domestic landscape.

Apartment DFP converts an attic apartment in Brixen, Italy into a clear, open loft shaped by light and measured surfaces. Designed by AKT.studio in 2024, the project reorders daily life around the path of the sun, pulling social rooms toward views and tucking quieter zones into sheltered corners. A restrained palette of wood, stone, metal, and textiles gives the interior a calm, continuous rhythm that still reads as distinctly domestic.

Kirigami unfolds as a finely tuned winter retreat in Eden, United States, shaped by Sparano + Mooney Architecture around the precision of folded steel and timber craft. The project translates the Japanese art of kirigami into an alpine setting, using cuts, folds, and voids to organize a ski-in/ski-out home for multi-generational living. Inside, a clean, modern character frames art, views, and ritual, from onsen bathing to quiet evenings off the slopes.

MAJC House rests in the gently rolling moraines of Soiano, Italy, as a single-family house by ARKDD that turns constraint into quiet clarity. The residence and its annex open toward a protected landscape, where glass, timber, and stone keep close company with the earth. Within this calibrated setting, structure, material, and light work together to frame daily life at a measured, unhurried pace.

A Resolutely Maximalist Mini Loft condenses an entire visual universe into a compact apartment in Bagnolet, France, reimagined by ZYVA Studio’s founder Anthony Authié. Inside an industrial shell near Paris, the architect layers youth culture references, bold color fields, and cartoon-like furniture into an unapologetically graphic interior. What starts as a simple volume becomes a dense narrative of textures, objects, and memories that turns everyday domestic life into an ongoing visual story.

1930s Victorian bungalow traces the careful reinvention of a 1935 house in Austin, United States by Side Angle Side, recasting a rundown structure as a layered family home. The architects rebuild the historic shell around salvaged millwork and generous light, while interior designer and homeowner Holly Beth Potter threads vintage finds and new finishes into a calm, lived-in rhythm. What emerges is a house that holds history close yet feels ready for everyday use.

Uptown Apartment sets a calm, contemporary tone in Vilnius, Lithuania, where designer Marija Orloviene composes a light-filled home from warm materials and measured color. The apartment reads as one continuous living environment, tying together cooking, dining, and relaxing areas through subtle shifts in texture and tone rather than bold contrasts. Every view feels deliberate, yet the rooms stay relaxed enough for everyday city life.