House Calls
Curbed's weekly original tours series takes you inside homes with eye-catching style and big personality—from modern tiny homes to pedigreed midcentury gems and everything in between.
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In Bushwick, a designer’s own home embodies a quirky, open ethos
Inside Brooklyn designer Michael Yarinsky’s carefully crafted two-bedroom apartment.
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A 1950s tract house turned eclectic, colorful sanctuary
A journalist from Mississippi and a photographer from Brooklyn spend four decades making a Santa Barbara tract house their home.
Spice up your life: Paint and accent-color inspo for spring
Springtime color inspiration from some of our favorite Curbed home tours.
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A sleek renovation brings sunlight into a 1970s condo
Seattle’s Shed Architecture & Design revamps a unit in a 1970s Green Lake condo, bringing light into dark, low-ceilinged interiors.
A gorgeous renovation sweats the small stuff
A multidisciplinary studio revamps the circa-1980s home of a special client—a founding partner’s mother.
A couple trades their 1800s townhouse for a new-build
An Indianapolis couple trades a 19th-century townhouse for a carefully crafted new-build home
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This Atlanta apartment was once an elementary school cafeteria
A media director makes her home in the former cafeteria of a converted school on the National Register of Historic Places.
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How a ‘swinging ’60s bachelor pad’ became a family home in Silver Lake
How did a hillside bachelor pad transform into a family home for five, twice the size of its original footprint? With the help of five different architects and as many renovations.
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In Seattle, multifamily living done right
An architect couple creates a home in a newly developed trio of townhouses in Squire Park.
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Making a home in a former candy factory in Brooklyn
Writer, food editor, and podcaster Julia Bainbridge returns to New York City from Atlanta.
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Inside a California couple’s DIY Eichler renovation
A California couple transforms an ailing Eichler house to make their midcentury modern fantasies a reality.
A couple finds their midcentury dream home
Inside a sensitively renovated circa-1965 house in Waikanae, New Zealand.
Inside an 1800s farmhouse turned family home near Philadelphia
What’s old is new again in Bucks County, Pennsylvania.
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A Central Park West apartment gets new details that make all the difference
Yun Architecture works with a couple—and a master plaster-worker—to refinish an apartment with stellar views.
Year in Curbed: The best of 2018 House Calls
This year, our weekly column of original home tours took us everywhere from Denver and San Francisco to Paris and Ghent, Belgium.
A midcentury time capsule with an ’80s flair gets a modern update
A Colorado couple gives a 1957 gem a respectful renovation.
‘Energy-efficient design can be simple’
An Indiana couple builds their eco-friendly dream house on 8.5 acres.
In Paris, mixing flea market finds and scores from ‘the French Craigslist’
Writer, creative director, and pastry chef Jackie Kai Ellis makes a home near the Canal St. Martin in the City of Light.
A couple embraces nature with a minimalist house in North Carolina
"We tried to create something that felt very sculptural and responded to the scale of the property," says one of the architects of the house.
After Hurricane Sandy, a couple rebuilds—on 6-foot-tall stilts
"They literally went around with a jigsaw and cut out floors and raised the house without them."
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A renovation 47 years in the making—and a mother-son dream team
An interior designer takes on a project with clients he knows well—his parents.
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A Ladera Heights designer finds—and remakes—her midcentury dream home
"The specs were perfect. I just knew we would make an offer before I even saw it," says Natalie Myers of Veneer Designs.
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Inside a ‘timeless yet modern’ home in Encino
Proem Studio works with a couple to figure out what the "nuts and bolts" of their life are like—and design a home accordingly.
A micro cabin in Vermont offers an artist refuge
The "Micro House," in Camel’s Hump, Vermont, is a 430-square-foot refuge for an artist.
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Inside San Francisco’s best homes
From the eclectic home of creatives in Oakland to an empty-nester couple’s colorfully Postmodernist apartment in SoMa.
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Inside a Mar Vista oasis with a pool and ocean views
Marmol Radziner creates a hilltop retreat.
5 Victorian homes to get you in the mood for fall
This is what leaves crunching underfoot looks like.
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Inside an architect’s light-filled family home in a pedigreed Chicago tower
With a view of the city—and Lake Michigan.
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A 1949 Hollywood Hills home melds Old Hollywood glamour and midcentury cool
And marries the couple’s East Coast roots with their distinctly Los Angeles house.
9 maximalist interiors that get the style right
Color! Pattern! Texture!
A Portland couple trades in a farmhouse for their midcentury dream home
They bid an 1890s farmhouse adieu for this 1966 gem.
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Two architects turn an 1889 factory into their home and studio in the South Loop
They had dreamt of finding a freestanding building with a little outdoor space and space to grow into: a tall order in the neighborhood, but not impossible.
11 sparkling pools you’ll want to dive into
Each of these pools, from a tiered stunner in the Hamptons to one that backs up to a Napa vineyard, will remind you summer isn’t over yet.
‘If you take out the art, the building itself can’t stand’
Architect Davide Macullo and artist Daniel Buren collaborate on a whimsical house that combines familiar and the fantastical in a small Swiss town.
9 vacation homes to fuel your wanderlust
The height of summer has us dreaming of escapes.
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Inside a sunny Glendale bungalow that doubles as an artist’s studio
Mixing vintage finds and art by friends, a couple creates a colorful sanctuary.
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In Bed-Stuy, making a home in a former chocolate factory
A creative couple embraces their new home’s industrial roots
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A Fire Island house brings the spirit of sand and surf indoors
A Fire Island, New York, couple teams up with Delson or Sherman Architects and interior designer Alexandra Angle to fashion their family getaway.
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An airy Harlem brownstone keeps things playful yet practical
And a family embraces change