This year, our weekly column of original home tours took us everywhere from Denver and San Francisco to Paris and Ghent, Belgium Knock, knock. In 2018, Curbed was there, asking to be let into many, many midcentury modern gems in California (yes, please), a flood-resistant Ranch-style home in New York on stilts (!), a former pub turned residence in Belgium (!!), an aerie with excellent wood floors and swoon-worthy plaster details in Paris (!!!), and so much more for our weekly home tours column, House Calls.
Photographing bungalows, vacation houses, apartments (and everything in between) reminded us that now, as in all the years before, our homes continue to be places of sanctuary, fonts of expression, and vessels for creativity. Won?t you come in"
Carlos Chavarría

?Even the developers wouldn?t touch it?
We kicked off the year by heading to San Francisco, where Noe Valley couple Vivian Lee and Robert Edmonds (co-founders of Edmonds + Lee Architects) gave us the lowdown on what it was like to build the house they craved on a small lot no one seemed to want. Their tenacity and vision led to a modern, two-story family home with minimalist-yet-warm interiors?and excellent views of the city.

Liz Kuball

In Palm Springs, a couple embraces midcentury style?and green design
The home-tours team at Curbed works from climes where temperatures drop well below freezing in winter, so in February we found ourselves hungering for sun an...