Each year, the CUSTOM HOME Design Awards jury selects a single outstanding project as the Custom Home of the Year. Take a look at all the past winners of the CHDA Custom Home of the Year Award.
Each year, the CUSTOM HOME Design Awards jury selects a single outstanding project as the Custom Home of the Year. Take a look at all the past winners of the CHDA Custom Home of the Year Award.
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Strong geometrical forms and soft, muted colors give this new house an assertive yet respectful presence in its rural landscape.
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Elliott Kaufman
2011 CUSTOM HOME OF THE YEAR
House in an Olive Grove, Geyserville, Calif.
Cooper Joseph Studio
New York
Strong geometrical forms and soft, muted colors give this new house an assertive yet respectful presence in its rural landscape.
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The entry elevation presents a bold composition of rectilinear forms.
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Elliott Kaufman
The entry elevation presents a bold composition of rectilinear forms.
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The house opens up on its downhill side.
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Elliott Kaufman
The house opens up on its downhill side.
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The building fans out in both plan and section.
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Elliott Kaufman
The building fans out in both plan and section.
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Interior and exterior living spaces take in long views over an olive grove.
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Elliott Kaufman
Interior and exterior living spaces take in long views over an olive grove.
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The kitchen overlooks the living area. A sliding screen beyond opens a window into the bedroom.
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Elliott Kaufman
The kitchen overlooks the living area. A sliding screen beyond opens a window into the bedroom.
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A view of the living room from the kitchen.
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Elliott Kaufman
A view of the living room from the kitchen.
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The concrete wall that slices through the building opens for a windowed seating nook in the living room.
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Elliott Kaufman
The concrete wall that slices through the building opens for a windowed seating nook in the living room.
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The interior palette follows the same grayscale theme as the exterior.
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Elliott Kaufman
The interior palette follows the same grayscale theme as the exterior.
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The bedroom. All interior millwork is oak with translucent acrylic inserts.
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Elliott Kaufman
The bedroom. All interior millwork is oak with translucent acrylic inserts.
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The master bath. The mirror reflects the view through the glass-walled shower.
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Elliott Kaufman
The master bath. The mirror reflects the view through the glass-walled shower.
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The site plan.
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The site plan.
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The floor plan.
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The floor plan.
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Building sections.
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Building sections.
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Custom Home of the Year 2010: Connors House, Westwood Mass.
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Warren Jagger Photography
The entry courtyard of this house, designed by Estes/Twombly Architects, is sheltered by stone walls, landscaping, and the building itself. For more details, click here.
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Custom Home of the Year 2010: Connors House, Westwood, Mass.
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Warren Jagger Photography
The house occupies a ridge with a clearing and view to the south.
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Custom Home of the Year 2010: Connors House, Westwood, Mass.
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Warren Jagger Photography
A granite fireplace and chimney anchors the west wall of the kitchen great room.
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Custom Home of the Year 2010: Connors House, Westwood, Mass.
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Warren Jagger Photography
The kitchen cabinets, like all the millwork in the house, are mahogany. The floor and counters are limestone. Read more here.
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Custom Home of the Year 2009: Ferrous House, Spring Prairie, Wis.
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Doug Edmunds
A cubelike mid-level entry makes a virtue of the feature that once distinguished this house, redesigned by Johnsen Schmaling Architects, as a 'raised ranch.' For more details, click here.
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Custom Home of the Year 2009: Ferrous House, Spring Prairie, Wis.
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Doug Edmunds
A new system of wood-and-steel roof trusses opens the interior to a full-length clerestory.
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Custom Home of the Year 2009: Ferrous House, Spring Prairie, Wis.
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Doug Edmunds
Wing walls, clad in Cor-Ten steel and red cedar, bookend a screened porch and deck.
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Custom Home of the Year 2009: Ferrous House, Spring Prairie, Wis.
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Doug Edmunds
Contrasting interior finishes delineate the circulation core, which includes the entryway, kitchen, and rooftop addition. Read more here.
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Custom Home of the Year 2008: Walden, Colo., Residence
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David Wakely
This home by Turnbull Griffin Haesloop Architects employs familiar Western forms to create something that feels completely new yet perfectly at home in its Rocky Mountain setting. For more details, click here.
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Custom Home of the Year 2008: Walden, Colo., Residence
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David Wakely
Two white-painted "cubes" at the center of the plan organize the building's interior without creating fully enclosed rooms.
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Custom Home of the Year 2008: Walden, Colo., Residence
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David Wakely
The broad, sheltering roof that marks this house from a distance also defines its living spaces.
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Custom Home of the Year 2008: Walden, Colo., Residence
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David Wakely
The interior deploys archetypal Western imagery in service of Modernist design principles.
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Custom Home of the Year 2008: Walden, Colo., Residence
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David Wakely
With views that stretch for miles and nary a neighbor in sight, one does not need a porch railing for privacy. Read more here.
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Custom Home of the Year 2007: Camouflage House, Green Lake, Wis.
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Kevin J. Miyazaki
In an effect inspired by the forest that surrounds it, views through this new lakeside home by Johnsen Schmaling Architects shift with one's perspective. Its unfinished red cedar siding will gray to blend with the tree trunks. For more details, click here.
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Custom Home of the Year 2007: Camouflage House, Green Lake, Wis.
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Kevin J. Miyazaki
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Custom Home of the Year 2007: Camouflage House, Green Lake, Wis.
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Kevin J. Miyazaki
Stained siding panels reflect the colors of fall foliage. The linear, open-plan interior wears a simple palette of pigmented concrete floors, clear-finish MDF wall and ceiling panels, and laminated fir structural beams.
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Custom Home of the Year 2007: Camouflage House, Green Lake, Wis.
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Kevin J. Miyazaki
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Custom Home of the Year 2006: Millbrook, N.Y., Guesthouse
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Maxwell Mackenzie
The living room of this hilltop guesthouse by Meditch Murphey Architects drinks in the vista of the Hudson River through a 10-foot-tall glass wall, which lights up like a beacon at night. For more details, click here.
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Custom Home of the Year 2006: Millbrook, N.Y., Guesthouse
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Maxwell Mackenzie
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Custom Home of the Year 2006: Millbrook, N.Y., Guesthouse
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Maxwell Mackenzie
Simple building forms and a strictly ordered geometry heighten the drama of the hilltop site.
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Custom Home of the Year 2006: Millbrook, N.Y., Guesthouse
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Maxwell Mackenzie
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Custom Home of the Year 2005: Sonoma County, Calif., Residence
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JD Peterson
Sliding glass doors open up the corner of the master bedroom to views of the vineyard and mountains beyond. Ample terraces establish a close connection between this house, designed by Aidlin Darling Design, and its site. For more details, click here.
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Custom Home of the Year 2005: Sonoma County, Calif., Residence
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John Sutton
The client's plan was to build a main house on this vineyard property and turn this rammed-earth gem into a caretaker's residence.
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Custom Home of the Year 2005: Sonoma County, Calif., Residence
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JD Peterson
A clear sealer applied to the rammed-earth walls, both interior and exterior, protects them from damage.
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Custom Home of the Year 2005: Sonoma County, Calif., Residence
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John Sutton
Custom blocks of cabinetry define the house's public spaces. Read more here.
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Custom Home of the Year 2004: McLean, Va., Residence
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Julia Heine
A masterful composition of disparate forms and materials, this Northern Virginia house by Bethesda, Md.-based McInturff Architects defies categorization. For more details,
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Custom Home of the Year 2004: McLean, Va., Residence
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Julia Heine
Pinpoint siting, earthy materials, and walls that seem to disappear fully engage this suburban home in the outdoors.
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Custom Home of the Year 2004: McLean, Va., Residence
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Julia Heine
Painstakingly detailed yet relying on simple forms, the interior emphasizes natural materials and natural light.
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Custom Home of the Year 2004: McLean, Va., Residence
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Julia Heine
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Custom Home of the Year 2004: McLean, Va., Residence
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Julia Heine
Read more about this project here.
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Custom Home of the Year 2003: Jamestown, R.I., Residence
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Warren Jagger Photography
Three traditional building forms—a gable-roofed main house, a shedlike studio, and a saltbox-style loft—come together in an unexpected fashion in this project by Lerner/Ladds + Bartels in Providence. For more details on this project click here.
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Custom Home of the Year 2003: Jamestown, R.I., Residence
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Warren Jagger Photography
2003's overall winner wowed the judges by combining traditional, regionally appropriate materials, colors, and building forms in a completely Modern fashion.
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Custom Home of the Year 2003: Jamestown, R.I., Residence
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Warren Jagger Photography
For the client's garage and artist's studio, architect Chris Ladds fashioned a 2,000-square-foot building with a curved shed roof that sits at an angle to the 2,900-square-foot main house; the east ends of both structures almost touch.
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Custom Home of the Year 2003: Jamestown, R.I., Residence
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Warren Jagger Photography
The curved south wall of the main house exactly follows the sun's path throughout the day. Read more about this project here.