Design ideas from the Fine Homebuilding photographers.

By Susan Teare, Ken Gutmaker, Lincoln Barbour, Brian Vanden Brink Issue 267 – HOUSES 2017

In FineHomebuilding.com’s “Through the Lens” blog, our contributing photographers — Lincoln Barbour, Ken Gutmaker, Susan Teare, and Brian Vanden Brink — share photographs they’ve taken of beautiful, well-designed homes along with their observations about each project or shoot. We’ve selected eight of our favorite interiors and exteriors to display in this gallery, with a quote from each photographer describing what he or she found most inspiring about the featured projects.

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