Some homes look like they were drawn by hand. This one looks like it was dreamed.  Tucked between pines and winding roads in Eliot, Maine, just miles from the salty edge of the Atlantic, there’s a house that doesn’t fit the mold—because it was never meant to.  Curved like a hillside, wrapped in weathered cedar shingles and whimsy, the so-called Hobbit House  doesn’t rise so much as it emerges —as if it simply grew out of the ground when no one was looking. It’s not a replica.

On a quiet street in Harbor Springs, tucked between tall pines and the cold breath of Lake Michigan, stands a house with six sides, no corners, and more history than square footage. It doesn’t shout for attention. But it gets it anyway. This is the Shay Hexagon House—a private residence built in 1888 by Ephraim Shay , the mechanical mind behind the famous Shay locomotive. A man of industry. A man of invention. A man who believed that if something could be done differently—it

Tucked beneath the emerald canopy of a Big Island rainforest, this home began not as a structure, but as a long-held dream. Years ago, two stewards of the land—deeply inspired by permaculture, Hawaiian ecology, and the spirit of off-grid living—set out to create something different. Not a house to stand apart from nature, but one to exist in harmony with it. This is not a typical home. It’s a sanctuary—hand-built, solar-powered, and guided by principles of sustainability and