Custom Home Design Awards
Barrio Historico House, Tucson, Ariz.
The 2012 Custom Home of the Year is a brilliant reinterpretation of the traditional urban courtyard house.
Custom Home / More than 5,000 Square Feet
A new home in California's Coachella Valley offers a true indoor/outdoor experience.
A custom builder's own home slips seamlessly into a difficult site.
This home blends farmhouse and New England country house typologies.
Natural light shapes the spaces at this Los Angeles home.
Carefully layered spaces and materials distinguish this Silicon Valley residence.
Custom home / 3,000 to 5,000 Square Feet
A shabby and disused Manhattan servant's quarters becomes a sparkling rooftop apartment.
Rehkamp Larson Architects offers a fresh take on a traditional cottage.
A well-composed residence suits its wooded site on Brays Island, S.C.
Custom Home / Less Than 3,000 Square Feet
Custom Detail
A home’s entry doors hint at the materials used inside.
Inspired by the forms of a grand piano, this stair gets support from a rhythmic array of steel rods.
A room-defining bookshelf detail wowed the judges.
A retro tile detail lends authenticity to a new shingle style residence.
Architectural Interiors
A rustic potting room attracted the judges' attention.
Quiet craftsmanship reinforces this home’s organizational structure.
A remodeled Manhattan loft apartment fine-tunes the openness vs. privacy formula.
Beautifully scaled interiors are a highlight of this rural Maryland home.
Dramatic geometry and a subtle palette of colors and materials give this new Northern California house an assertive yet respectful presence in its rural landscape.
Carney Logan Burke designed a family friendly residence in Jackson Hole.
Jeffery Broadhurst designs a prefab, steel-framed weekend home on the Chesapeake Bay.
Reconciling the needs of small children with those of their parents can pose a significant design challenge. This project—our Grand Award...
Like Cinderella's glass slippers, these glass stairs and balcony suggest something “incredibly magical,” said a judge.
This 1920s bungalow—our Grand Award, Custom Detail winner—had decent bones but lacked the custom domestic amenities that make a house...
Merit Award: Outdoor Spaces
Merit Award: Outdoor Spaces
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Joeb + Partners, Architects, for Winding Lane Porches, Greenwich, Conn. One judge had trouble tearing himself away from the photos of these...
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The Custom Home Design Awards judges rhapsodized over this covered pier in South Carolina.
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Packing an oversized programmatic wallop, this 620-square-foot pavilion serves as the owners' pool house, guest-house, office, ancillary...
A set of concrete steps leads from the yard down to the cantilevered dock. The standing-seam metal roof and built-in wooden benches make...
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These 23 projects represent the best in custom home design. The winning projects were selected by an independent panel of four custom home...
Custom Outdoor Space
Sitting 65 feet up in the air, this rooftop pavilion is an urban answer to the outdoor room. But Johnsen Schmaling Architects wasn't...
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The products used in this year's winning Custom Home Design Award homes.
This desert home has a raft of remarkable features: four-foot-thick rammed earth walls at its lower level, which holds an extensive private...
When David Austin's clients asked him for an outbuilding devoted to leisure, he wasn't quite sure where to begin.
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The products used in this year's winning Custom Home Design Award homes.
There are architectural details that solve problems and close the gaps between bigger pieces of structure, and there are those that also...
Stair rails come in a number of standard flavors—wood balusters, Sheetrock, stainless steel cable—each of which serves more as background...
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The products used in this year's winning Custom Home Design Award homes.
Utility buildings, those bit players on the architectural scene, are seldom the occasion for innovative work.
Projects that appear effortless are often the most challenging to create. Such was the case with this master bath remodel.
Custom Renovation King George, Va., Residence
Adding to a mediocre house is a low-risk proposition; almost any reasonable change is an improvement.
The judges appreciated the subtle artistry evident in this 4,000-square-foot house outside San Francisco.
