These Were Our Most Popular House Tours of 2023

In this four-bedroom, five-bathroom Palm Springs home, interior designer Michelle Boudreau pulls off the mid-century modern look perfectly, balancing a serene color palette with with eye-catching patterns, textures, and wood materials. To put it plainly, it’s a fun, groovy, and stylish space.

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The story behind this Northern California Craftsman bungalow was as special as its design. Woodworker Rich Collins had been collecting high-quality wood pieces for 20 years, and he took all of these pieces and made them into a home with the help of architect Todd Gordon Mather. The home-building process started in 2017, but was halted when Rich got bladder cancer in August 2018. After he was declared cancer-free in March 2019, he and his wife got their building permit the next day and planned a groundbreaking ceremony to commemorate the occasion. We were lucky to get a tour of the finished home, where every detail and feature has a special story.

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A family of four had outgrown their tiny home in Phinney Ridge, Seattle, but they loved their historical 1907 house so much that they didn’t want to move. So they turned to Kip Katich of Best Practice Architecture to help them add more space and make the home more functional. Kip gut-renovated the first floor and basement, removing interior walls to improve the flow and bring in more light. He also made the kitchen smaller and the bathroom bigger (since there’s only one bathroom in the home). He also added a cube-like structure in the backyard which acts as a home office. “Everything turned out beyond our expectations,” Kip says. “And the house feels open and effortless.”

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The iconic modernist vibes of Sea Ranch were the inspiration for musician Drew Straus’s 1930s home in the Silver Lake neighborhood of Los Angeles. Rachel Bullock of architecture, furniture, and interiors studio LAUN, oversaw the project, adjusting the layout, prioritizing the sweeping city views, and of course, taking cues from the modernist Sea Ranch ethos (rooting the design in the property’s unique topography).

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Owners of Koheid Design, Travis and Aubree Boul Gramberg, bought their Costa Mesa, California, house right as COVID-19 lockdowns were happening. But that didn’t deter them from dreaming up big plans for the space, which had good bones and was on a large lot. With the help of architect Craig O’Connell, they transformed the home into an indoor-outdoor family oasis.

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When Joanne Koch, Principal at Koch Architects, was renovating her Sea Ranch cabin, she was committed to sticking to the ideals of the architecturally significant community. Overall, Joanne wanted to enhance the connection to the site, forest, and ocean views. Now the home is modernized, while really blending into its surroundings and emphasizing the beauty of nature outdoors.

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A first-time homeowner in her 50s (who’s also a mom of two and grandma of two) was ready to make her 768-square-foot San Diego bungalow completely hers. So she tapped interior designer Allison Garrison of Allito Spaces to help make it an inviting place that maximized every square inch. Allison created more cohesion and function in the space, and added muddy and muted shades of blue and green.

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Joelle Kutner and Jesse Rudolph of design-build firm Ome Dezin worked their magic on an older Craftsman home in the Los Feliz neihgborhood of Los Angeles that was dilapidated, lacked some TLC, and had non-functional rooms (like a dingy kitchen). The newly remodeled space now has an open layout with better flow, updated and upgraded mechanics and materials, and an ADU in the backyard.

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When you see the house architect Peter Gluck of GLUCK+ designed and built off Mulholland Drive in the Hollywood Hills for his son, writer and director Will Gluck, his daughter-in-law, writer Trista Gladden, and his two granddaughters, there’s no mistaking the Case Study influence: Steel frame, walls of glass, open floor plan, angular roof, multi-purpose room that opens to the outside. Even the footprint of the house looks deceptively small, in keeping with the original Case Study model. But when you dig deeper and learn that the most innovative aspects of this construction are buried underground, it becomes clear that this house is more about the future than the past.

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When a family of five downsized from a 6,300-square-foot residence to a 1,500-square-foot home in Northern California, there was a lot they had to get used to. One of which was the smaller kitchen which didn’t have enough storage for their pots, pans, kitchen tools, and extensive china collection. Linette Dai of Linette Dai Design turned the cramped kitchen into a functional, stylish, and timeless space with plenty of room for the whole family.

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