Watch: This oceanfront property in southeast Alaska, with concrete floors and a pink kitchen, cost $2.07 million to build and furnish. Its homeowner describes the joys and challenges of custom-building a home over the water in rural Ketchikan.
cribes the joys and challenges of custom-building a home over the water in rural Ketchikan. Photo: Kyoko Fierro for the Wall Street JournalThis WSJ series walks you through the halls of one-of-a-kind mansions, where homeowners share the amenities and design features that make their homes unique.Luxury home tours on YouTube are exploding, and transforming the way high-end real estate is discovered and sometimes sold.
Photo: Michal Czerwonka for The Wall Street JournalGreek architect Tilemachos Andrianopoulos provides a tour of his design: a triangular home that blurs the line between inside and the olive grove outside. "Even for a completely new structure, there is always something that already exists there," he says. Photo: Rob Alcaraz/The Wall Street JournalKristin Tang first camped on her lakeside property in Fruita, Colo.
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