The Wheelers’ Atlanta Home From "Stranger Things" Lists for $350K

The retro residence starred in Netflix’s most popular series, and it’s on the market just in time for Halloween. Demogorgons not included.

The retro residence starred in Netflix’s most popular series, and it’s on the market just in time for Halloween. Demogorgons not included.

Location: 2530 Piney Wood Lane, Atlanta, Georgia

Price: $350,000

Year Built: 1963

Footprint: 2,466 square feet (5 bedrooms, 3 baths) 

Lot Size: 2.03 Acres

From the Agent: "Own a piece of television history with the Wheeler House from the immensely popular show Stranger Things. Sitting at the end of Piney Wood Lane on two acres, this time capsule offers plenty of room to roam, and an incredible restoration opportunity to turn some upside down elements right side up again. The panel-matching kitchen has plenty of counter space and a waffle breakfast area, and it leads to a separately framed dining room adjoining another living room at the front of the house, where you can keep an eye out for trick-or-treaters. The second floor has three bedrooms that share a hallway bath, along with a primary bedroom with its own bath and fireplace. 2530 Piney Wood Lane is looking for its new owner, and whether you plan to restore the retro lore, bring the home into the 2000s, or create an experiential host home, we cannot wait to see what happens next season."

Photo by Jordan Nelson

The home feels straight from the show, complete with retro appliances.

The home looks like it came straight from the show, complete with retro appliances.

Photo by Jordan Nelson

Photo by Jordan Nelson

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Construction Diary: How a Growing Austin Family Artfully Expanded a Habit for Humanity Home

A stair unit leading to a new second level has critical storage and a colorway that riffs on beloved furnishings.

Located in East Austin, the renovated house has more space for Drew and Vero's three children and their collection of art, records, and books.

In 2016, Drew Liverman and Veronica Giavedoni, both artists and graphic designers, were looking for a home to start a family. They landed on a three-bed, two-bath home in East Austin that was originally built by Habitat for Humanity, but at just 1,097 square feet, a lot of rooms were crammed into a pretty tight space, which only felt tighter when they had their first child soon after moving in.

Then, in 2019, while making plans for another baby, Drew and Veronica were considering a renovation when they found out they were having twins. The three (tiny) bedrooms weren’t going to be enough: one was already being used as an office, which left them with very little room for their kids to sleep and play. Now, expanding the home was a nonnegotiable.

Charles Melanson Architect led a renovation that transforms the roughly 1,000-square-foot home into a two-level, 2,489-square-foot residence without expanding the original footprint.

Charles Melanson Architect worked with East Austin couple Drew Liverman and Veronica Giavedoni to expand their 1,097-square-foot home to 2,086 by adding a second level.

Photo: Andrea Calo

To create more space, they approached architect Charles Melanson, whose challenge was adding another story that followed setback requirements while providing the most utility for the family. The home already used most of its small lot size, which is typical in East Austin, meaning Veronica and Drew couldn’t add a full second level. And they wanted to preserve the existing building envelope as much as they could, anyway.

A new interior stair structure was key to the renovation: it organizes circulation, houses a new powder room, and contains critical storage. "In my experience, when you add a second floor to a one-story house, the first thing that has to happen is the stairs have to be located right because everything pinwheels around that," says Melanson. The new plan now has four bedrooms: two upstairs off of a play space for the kids and two below, including an expanded primary and one that’s used as a workspace.

Drew and Veronica chose the home in part because it was near Drew’s art studio, but also to be near friends, many of whom are also artists, and creative spaces like Mass Gallery, where Drew used to work. Their creative community is woven into their home in the form of furniture and art, objects that influenced both the renovation’s color and material palette. While the updates add functional space for Veronica and Drew’s young family, it’s these personal touches that make the East Austin home all their own.

A Place to Start

Drew: Our home was built by Habitat for Humanity around 2001. It’s part of a series on our block. There’s still maybe three more down the street.

Veronica: When we bought it, it was around 1,000 square feet and had three bedrooms that were not very big. I was pregnant with our oldest daughter. We did an initial renovation; the house didn’t have a back door, so we added one with a hallway to access the backyard, and replaced linoleum floors in the kitchen with wood ones.

Located in East Austin, the renovated house has more space for Drew and Vero's three children and their collection of art, records, and books.

Melanson introduced a stair with built-in storage off the dining space, which leads to a new second level. Its colorway connects to furnishings made by friends of Veronica and Drew.

Photo: Andrea Calo

Time to Expand

Drew: There were plans of expanding the family. We were talking to our architect, Charlie, and our friends Will Slack and Cody Meeks, who are contractors, about the project. We just wanted to get some ideas. But then we found out Veronica was pregnant with twins and we had to do the renovation.

Veronica: We were trying to have one more child, but we were like, we’ll just have a guest room if it doesn’t work out. And it worked out doubly, so we had to adjust the plan a little bit.

Going Up

Veronica: Prior to finding out we were having twins, we wanted an upstairs for the kids with an open area where they could play or watch movies. Like a second living room, basically. With the second level, we were able to do vaulted ceilings and there’s a lot of windows that frame the trees around our yard. It feels like you’re tucked away in a really cozy tree house. It’s really my favorite place in the house.

Drew: I feel like the whole stairwell part really came out. It’s sort of the most poured over and thought about part of the house. Having wall space was important, and having storage was important, because we have a big record collection and a lot of books and paintings and things like that. But we were thinking of the storage more practically at first, just like as many built-ins as we could do. There was a lot of that in the initial planning. The idea came up to do this really big built-in by the stairs, like a metastasized version of this piece of furniture I’d made that was just a big shelf. It had all these like interlocking spaces in it and stuff. That’s what this larger built-in turned into.

The double-height stair volume and new windows create a much sunnier, open, and functional home.

The double-height stair volume and new windows create a much brighter, open, and functional home.

Photo: Andrea Calo

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Flush With Original Finishes, This SoCal Midcentury Lists for $2M

Nestled between Santa Barbara and Los Angeles, the 1957 home has well-preserved woodwork, vintage tile, and natural stone walls.

Nestled between Santa Barbara and Los Angeles, this 1957 home has well-preserved woodwork, vintage tile, and natural stone walls.

Location: 1234 Woodland Drive, Santa Paula, California

Price: $1,989,000

Year Built: 1957

Architect: John Stroh

Footprint: 2,976 square feet (4 bedrooms, 3 baths)

Lot Size: 0.42 Acres

From the Agent: "This stunning one-story midcentury-modern home is located in the coveted Oaks neighborhood of Santa Paula and is just minutes from the beaches of Ventura and downtown Ojai. Designed by renowned architect John Stroh of Wilson, Stroh, & Wilson in 1957, the home has soaring ceilings, walls of glass, and clerestory windows. The dining room features pocketing Shoji doors—Stroh was known to incorporate Asian inspired features into his designs. The bathrooms have been thoughtfully updated while retaining their pristine, original tile counters and baths. The charming eat-in kitchen opens to the expansive rear terrace and deck. This is an exciting opportunity to own an architectural home in a prime location that’s close to L.A., Santa Barbara, and so much more."

Jason Ragle for Sotheby's International Realty

Jason Ragle for Sotheby's International Realty

Jason Ragle for Sotheby's International Realty

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Red Piping Punches Up a Liechtenstein Home Split Into Two Units

Two sets of stairs, a veranda, and a pergola mark an intervention that makes space for more family.

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Project Details:

Location: Schaan, Liechtenstein

Footprint: 1,722 square feet

Architect: Dominic Spalt Architektur / @dominicspalt

Builder and Structural Engineer: Frommelt Zimmerei und Ing. Holzbau AG

Photographer: Willem Pab / @willempab

From the Architect: "In the center of the Liechtenstein municipality of Schaan, a single-family house from the 1960s was converted into a multigenerational house. Despite its hidden location between an old printing house and an office building, the building takes on a new, self-assured presence thanks to precise interventions. A central component of the transformation are three striking red steel elements that set deliberate accents and make the interventions in the existing structure visible.

"The original, oversize single-family home was converted into two residential units, one above the other. While the garden apartment remained largely unchanged, with only minor adjustments such as color accents and small openings for new pipes, the upper part of the house underwent a more comprehensive transformation. The existing bedrooms were retained but functionally expanded through targeted measures. The biggest change concerns the attic: the original attic with a gabled roof was replaced by a spacious living room. This open-plan layout is enhanced by precisely placed windows, creating visual connections to both the garden with its mighty, shade-giving tree and the striking Drei Schwestern mountain range. The transformation of the house was achieved with minimal but precise interventions that respect the existing structure while enabling the new living requirements of multigenerational use. The red steel elements not only serve as structural reinforcements, but also set design accents that weave together old and new. The project shows how targeted interventions and the preservation of essential components can lead to the sustainable further development of existing building fabric."

Photo by Willem Pab

Photo by Willem Pab

Photo by Willem Pab

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Mexican Design Is Ready for Its Close Up

The first U.S. edition of the Mexico Design Fair showed the country has much, much more to offer than Frida Kahlo souvenirs.

This story is part of Fair Take, our reporting on global design events that looks up close at the newest ideas in fixtures, furnishings, and more. 

The time is right for Mexican design to have its moment. Over the past few years, there’s been more global interest in the country in general. Its architects, like Tatiana Bilbao, are becoming global stars. Tourism is up, and (maybe too many) foreigners are flocking to the capital. Luis Barragán has been reborn as a star for the Instagram age. But Mexico’s contemporary furniture and object designers don’t yet have the global clout that some of their peers elsewhere have. The talk at the 2025 Mexico Design Fair (MDF), which I went to last week in Austin, Texas, was that the country’s creations are ready for the spotlight.  

The 2025 Mexico Design Fair exhibition at the Carpenter Hotel in Austin, Texas.

The 2025 Mexico Design Fair exhibition at the Carpenter Hotel in Austin, Texas.

Preston Rolls

MDF is a relatively small event as far as such events go. It doesn’t have the endless exhibition halls of Milan’s Salone del Mobile; all of the two dozen or so objects were shown in a small, semi-outdoor space at the Carpenter Hotel. That intimacy has been intentional, MDF’s founder, Carlos Torre Hütt, tells me. Every previous iteration since the annual fair started in 2021 has happened around Puerto Escondido, Mexico, offering a beachy atmosphere where designers can share their work with design lovers over meals and talks spread over a few days of events. 

Sadly for me, Austin does not have a seaside vibe, but this year’s fair was similarly casual, open to anyone to stop by and see, as designer Ana Lucía Santoyo of Mot Studio put it, that there’s more to Mexico’s contemporary design than just souvenirs with Frida Kahlo’s face on them. 

Ana Lucía Santoyo of Mot Studio with a pitcher from her line of tableware.

Ana Lucía Santoyo of Mot Studio with a pitcher from her line of tableware.

Preston Rolls

The work on display was diverse: Santoyo showed a line of colorful ceramic tableware designed to work for all of the culinary traditions listed on UNESCO’s Intangible Cultural Heritage list; Esteban Leñero displayed a cast-iron room divider depicting an abstracted villagescape; Bilbao presented a three-legged chair made of eucalyptus wood. There was a recurring theme of celebrating the country’s artisans and ancient traditions while putting their skills to new purposes. Jaime Levín took the twisted iron rods common to Mexican homes and made stools out of them, and Santoyo talked about working with Oaxacan weavers using historic techniques to create a new line of coasters.  

Mot Studio’s tableware

Mot Studio’s tableware.

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Breeze-Block Walls Add to the Airy Atmosphere of a Lakefront Home in Brazil

The residence’s open living space has glass sliders that, when open, make it hard to distinguish indoors from out.

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Project Details:

Location: São Paulo, Brazil

Footprint: 11,000 square feet

Architect: Nitsche Arquitetos / @nitsche_arquitetos

Builder: P&P Engenharia

Structural Engineer: ITA Engenharia em Madeira

Civil Engineer: Marata Engenharia

Landscape Design: André Paoliello

Lighting Design: Lightworks

Interior Design: Tusco

Photographer: André Scarpa / @scarpa_andre

From the Architect: "Due to the large dimensions of the plot, the project was conceived from the outset as a sprawling single-story house, composed of separate volumes divided by small gardens and connected by a covered circulation path. The house can be understood as a juxtaposition of construction materials, where each element is presented in its distinct appearance and can be clearly understood in its specific function. The project follows an assembly logic, which becomes evident in the built work.

"The house is divided into seven volumes, separated by garden recesses. The largest block is the social area, which houses the living room, kitchen, and a veranda with a barbecue area. This block is connected to three other volumes, each containing two suites, by a long corridor. A wall made of hollow ceramic elements runs along the entire length of the circulation path, protecting it from rain and allowing cross-ventilation in all rooms connected by the corridor. From the living room veranda, the pool area can be accessed by walking through the garden on elevated platforms clad in white Itaúnas granite. Under the pool’s sundeck is a sauna, which opens up to the view of the Jurumirim reservoir. On the side opposite the reservoir, separated from the other blocks by the hollow brick wall, are two additional volumes: one containing a game and TV room, and another for services, with a kitchen, laundry area, and related facilities. The floor plan was entirely developed using a grid module.The project was based on the intersection of two perpendicular axes: a circulation axis that connects the bedroom blocks with the integrated living room/kitchen and the TV/game room, and a service axis that extends from the enclosed entrance veranda, forming a straight line between the garage and the barbecue area on the veranda.

"The house has two main facades with contrasting characteristics. The rear facade, which encloses the longitudinal circulation, is defined by a large wall of green ceramic hollow elements that spans the entire length of the building. The opposite facade, facing the reservoir, is entirely closed with anodized aluminum frames and clear glass. In the bedrooms, sliding folding panels made of perforated PVC fabric (Soltis screen) were also installed, which protect the interior spaces from sun exposure and insects while allowing ventilation.

"Wherever possible, we sought to combine constructive rationality with aesthetic expression. Few finishes were used, and we aimed to work with materials in a way that highlights their unique characteristics. The wooden structure is always exposed. The white thermo-acoustic roof tiles are visible from the interior. Except for the wet areas, the flooring throughout the house is the exposed structural concrete slab, which has been polished to resemble terrazzo but is more cost-effective, as it eliminates the need for a screed and additional finishing materials. The atmosphere of the interior spaces emerges from the combination of these few constructive elements and the selected furniture, which is simple and comfortable."

Photo: André Scarpa

Photo: André Scarpa

Photo: André Scarpa

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Before & After: Two Foodies Give a Top-Floor Apartment a Top-Shelf Revamp in São Paulo

Gurgel D’Alfonso Arquitetura combines stainless steel, Brazilian stone, polished brass, and an heirloom table to create a kitchen that’s both personal and professional.

Underfoot, the architects added terracotta tile that runs from inside to out, creating further continuity and grounding the home in a natural material. Since being on MasterChef Brasil, Greg has been producing more Instagram tutorials with the new kitchen as set, with Fred and the children often pitching in to help behind the scenes.

If you ask Greg Bosi and Frederico Leonardo Dora what their two sons love to eat, you’ll find it’s not a prototypical kid favorite like mac and cheese. "The recipe that they love the most is one of the first recipes that we cooked for them, a mushroom galette," says Greg, referring to a flaky tart with an assortment of mushrooms and cheese. "They ask for it on a weekly basis."

That’s just a typical dinner in the family’s household in the city of São Paulo, Brazil. Both Greg and Fred’s professional lives revolve around food, and even after they clock out, they love to cook at home. Fred studied the culinary arts in college, but upon realizing that he didn’t want a career confined to a restaurant or hotel kitchen, switched to media studies. He’s been producing food content for the internet ever since, most recently at the YouTube channel Banquete.

After the couple met over a berry smoothie 16 years ago, Greg became enamored with cooking, too. "What got me into cooking was that I met Fred and we fell in love, and I started seeing how he was doing it," says Greg, who worked in marketing up to that point and now produces content for the Brazilian studio of Tastemade, as well as his own Instagram recipe tutorial— and he recently completed a stint on the reality show MasterChef Brasil earlier this year. 

In 2020, Greg Bosi and Frederico Leonardo Dora bought a new, two-floor apartment in São Paulo, Brazil with incredible views of the city.

In 2020, Greg Bosi and Frederico Leonardo Dora bought a new, two-floor apartment in São Paulo, Brazil with incredible views of the city.

Ricardo Faiani

Three months before the pandemic, the couple adopted their children, Henrique and Vicente, and soon realized they wanted more space than their current apartment provided, including a bedroom for each child and a dedicated office for Greg. "We wanted to have a separate space with doors because I talk a lot," says Greg, with a laugh. "This way, I wouldn’t interrupt Fred and the kids while they were doing other stuff."

When a two-floor, three-bedroom penthouse became available in a building just fifty meters from where they were living, they went to go see it, but they weren’t impressed. "The kitchen was too small," says Fred. "The apartment was in a building from 1998, so it was not vintage, and not new. It had this weird ’90s vibe."

It wasn’t until the couple brought over architects Rogério Gurgel and Caio D’Alfonso, of the firm Gurgel D’Alfonso Arquitetura, that they started to see the apartment's potential. And most importantly, that the kitchen could be much, much bigger. 

Before: Living Room and Dining Room 

Before: The kitchen had an "American

Before: The kitchen had what the couple call an "American" layout with a window and counter that opened to the apartment, but it was still too small.

Courtesy of Gurgel D’Alfonso Arquitetura

After: Living Room and Kitchen 

The firm Gurgel D’Alfonso Arquitetura opened the kitchen to the rest of the main living spaces.

Gurgel D’Alfonso Arquitetura opened the kitchen to the rest of the living area.

Ricardo Faiani

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