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Mirrored Storage • A stylish way to stow stuff or a high maintenance mess? Our followers and staff reflect on the pros and cons of this glassy option.

Working From Home Through the Ages • We’re all familiar with contemporary “live/work” spaces, particularly since the pandemic incited a (seemingly) lasting shift from offices to remote jobs. But people have been merging home and labor for centuries. Here, we scan noteworthy dual-purpose housing typologies from the past—some of which are still in use.

Modern World

How Much Did That House Actually Cost to Build? A Shelter Magazine May or May Not Tell You

Worth the Weight A retired couple live in a yurt for more than six years as they build a concrete home with their own hands for $707,800.

It’s Alive! • Mythical creatures inspire an interior designer and an architect’s take on a fairytale family home.

Best Seat in the House • Two music lovers build an angular black cabin with a massive window and a frontrow view of the Berkshires.

The Case for the Developer Mural • In the age of value-engineered housing design, corporate-funded street art has become the distinguishing architectural element that some of the public has been craving—and criticizing.

Dwellings

CORNER STORY • They used to be places where you might grab a Coke or a quart of milk. But in some residential pockets of North America, corner stores that have sat vacant are turning out to be prime real estate not for proprietors but for homeowners disillusioned by prohibitively expensive housing markets. Here, three clever owners share how they applied pluck and perseverance to turn disused mom-and-pops into dream homes that, dollar for dollar, beat out anything they could have found doomscrolling on Zillow.

OUT OF THE BOX

MiDCENTURY PRESERVATiON iS PRiCELESS FOR THESE LAS VEGAS NEIGHBORS • Call it kitsch, or commitment to detail.

Saturation Point • Following a contractor conundrum, a can-do couple decided to handle the colorful renovation of their fixer-upper themselves.

We Need to Bring Back Dump Decor • Garbage picking was once a great way to furnish our homes on the cheap. If we resurrected it, would we be better off?

sourcing • The products, furniture, architects, designers, and builders featured in this issue.

one last thing • Designer Drew Seskunastwists the tension of a tree root he discovered at the beach into his work.