Dezeen's top five houses of October 2026

Featuring an architect’s pink PoMo dreamhouse and a home for kids that looks like a wooden wardrobe, here are Dezeen’s houses of the month for October.

Our monthly roundup of the most popular residences featured on Dezeen captures everything from a bungalow conversion in northern England to super-luxe villas in Ibiza and Switzerland.

Read on to find out more about Dezeen readers’ favourite houses this month:

Cloud House, UK, by Peter Morris

Architect Peter Morris wanted to give his “love of postmodernism a chance to reveal itself fully” with this pair of residences in north London, one inhabited by himself and his wife and another by a neighbour with similar tastes.

“The key goal was to make a beautiful building which I hoped might create a little moment of joy for anyone walking past it on the street,” Morris told Dezeen.

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Wardrobe House by Sepka Architekti — Photo by Aleš Jungmann

Wardrobe House, Czech Republic, by Šépka Architekti

As its name suggests, this house was intended to resemble a wooden wardrobe. Like a piece of flat-pack furniture, it was prefabricated as a kit of parts and assembled on-site.

Šépka Architekti designed the house for a couple who wanted to provide two of their teenage children with independent living space, and it sits in the garden of the main family home.

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Woman on stepped villa — Photo by Jesus Orrico (also top)

Bellavista 11, Spain, by Fran Silvestre Arquitectos

This luxurious villa steps down a hillside on the eastern coast of Ibiza in three low-slung volumes.

Designed by Valencian studio Fran Silvestre Arquitectos, it is unmistakably minimalist, made up of pared-back white concrete rectangles.

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Think-Architecture-House-on-a-Slope — Photos by Nate Cook

House on a Slope, Switzerland, by Think Architecture

An underground corridor (pictured left) connects the two parts of this house overlooking Lake Zurich, designed by Swiss studio Think Architecture.

The architects had been tasked with fitting a very large amount of floorspace onto a narrow, sloping site while being as sensitive as possible to the landscape.

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Deyne Avenue extension, UK, by Loader Monteith

A two-bed bungalow in Prestwich has been transformed into a four-bedroom family home with only a modest expansion of its footprint by Scottish architecture practice Loader Monteith.

In what the studio described as “squeezing a quart into a pint pot”, a rear extension and dormer loft conversion were added, along with a reorganisation of the floor plan.

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