The area's 4-foot-tall focus, Lord Turnbull's Ornithological Study of Red Bird, was initially destined for the dining room.

HGTV Dream Home 2013 at Kiawah Island, S.C. A barrier island off the coast of historical Charleston, S.C., Kiawah is among the country's best golf destinations. Natural conservation is a key part of life here; homes are surrounded by lush native vegetation and marshes while beach access is a short walk or bike ride away. Designed in the traditional Low Country design, our HGTV Dream Home was sturdily constructed to withstand the coastal elements while seamlessly fitting into its natural surroundings.

HGTV Dream House 2013 at Kiawah Island, S.C. Designer Linda Woodrum let the house's coastal surroundings affect this dreamy guest area's watery palette and ornamental touches. Sea glass moved the room's cheery turquoise hue while the upholstery and bedding are at the same bright green which dots the marshes outside. Linda completed each bed with a vibrant pillow which nods to Kiawah's abundant decoration inhabitants.

HGTV Urban Oasis 2012 in Miami Overlooking Biscayne Bay residential curtain wall systems . Miami Beach and the Port of Miami, the sweeping views from this airy living room are nothing short of breathtaking. Designer Lindsay Pumpa selected glossy, non-toxic furnishings that reflect Miami's cosmopolitan aesthetic without competing with the space's million dollar views.

HGTV Urban Oasis 2012 at Miami Streamlined white cupboards extend from floor to ceiling to maximize storage room in the condominium's party-ready kitchen. A massive island separates the kitchen from the living room and homes a useful wine fridge to make entertaining a snap. Luxurious Calacatta Gold marble wraps the island in a waterfall style for a classy, contemporary spin.

HGTV Green Home 2012 at Serenbe, Ga.. Just half an hour from the hustle and bustle of metropolitan Atlanta is located the planned renewable community of Serenbe. It is a peaceful hamlet that promotes living in harmony with nature and a return to one-hundred worth. Designed in an upgraded Southern farmhouse design, our HGTV Green Home fits the community's relaxed lifestyle. Many standard farmhouse attributes are here: wide front porch, stacked stone fireplace, lapped siding plus a crimped metal roof. Also present are eco friendly elements like locally-sourced materials, drought-resistant landscaping and lots of Energy-Star windows which offer sweeping views of the natural environment while blocking damaging UV rays and solar heat gain.

HGTV Green Home 2012 in Serenbe, Ga.. The open-concept dining room and kitchen perfectly reflect the house's Modern farmhouse aesthetic. The rustic trestle dining table and seats are a farmhouse staple. Our variant, made entirely out of reclaimed shipping pallets, is as eco-friendly as it is practical. The nearby server boasts another reclaimed attribute: a set of lamps fashioned from antique foundry gears.

HGTV Green Home 2012 at Serenbe, Ga.. The bunkhouse-style children' area features an amusement attic where pint-sized guests can reunite on beanbags while playing games or watching a film. A sturdy oak ladder offers easy access while a clever bucket and pulley keeps the loft stocked with snacks.

HGTV Dream Home 2012 at Park City, Utah Situated in a grassy meadow with views of the Wasatch Mountains on one side and the Provo River on the opposite, the home's design team believed that the architecture should be as rugged as the surrounding landscape with all the look of a farmhouse that had evolved over time by a small central structure into a rambling 4,000-square-foot modern retreat.

HGTV Dream House 2012 at Park City, Utah At the center of the massive home, the great room is designed to resemble an old rock structure -- possibly a century-old farmhouse or barn -- around which the remainder of the house was assembled. Limestone walls and Douglas fir trusses, stained a weathered gray, give the room an appropriately aged appearance.

HGTV Dream House 2011 at Stowe, Vt.. The home's architecture is inspired by the Adirondack Great Camps assembled in Northeastern New York during the latter half of the 19th century. These historical homes were artful combinations of Swiss chalet and Craftsman design components. Like the fantastic Camps, our 2011 Fantasy House is constructed of locally sourced materials, which helps to additional tie it to the manner of construction along with the surrounding rocky terrain.

HGTV Dream House 2011 at Stowe, Vt.. Warm caramel upholstery and locally sourced wood accents, like a white walnut cornice and Appalachian-hardwood platform bed, set with contemporary chrome and lighting fittings to create a sophisticated space that blends lodge design with the house's contemporary aesthetic.

HGTV Dream House 2011 in Stowe, Vt.. For the gathering room, designer Linda Woodrum chose a rich autumnal colour palette of orange, red and gold to provide the vaulted space a cozy sense even on the coldest winter months. Filled with lavish upholstered furniture, this is the ideal spot to relax by the fire when shooting in a panoramic view of the surrounding mountains.

HGTV Dream House 2011 in Stowe, Vt.. Up to eight guests could comfortably bed down at the home's ski dorm. Decorated in saturated shades, the area's rustic elements include a knotty pine-planked ceiling and columns made from white cedar logs, felled on the house, to bring a bit of the outdoors in.

HGTV Urban Oasis 2011 at Chicago Designer Vern Yip was inspired by famed Chicago-based architect Frank Lloyd Wright when selecting a colour palette and design components for the home's living room. The furnishings are a blend of things created by local artisans, architectural salvage and custom bits, like the huge illuminated panel behind the sofa that was made to resemble Wright's Tree of Life art glass.

HGTV Green Home 2011 in Denver The design of this eco-friendly home is motivated by the Prairie School style espoused by ancient 20th-century architects such as Frank Lloyd Wright. Flat roofs, broad overhanging eaves, locally sourced materials and flat lines which tie the home into the surrounding landscape are hallmarks of the Midwestern style. Native grasses, plants and shrubs help to blend the house to its surroundings, and the plants are drought-tolerant, so they will require little maintenance.

HGTV Green Home 2011 at Denver Designer Linda Woodrum created this peaceful getaway utilizing Prairie School principles of hand craftsmanship, simplicity and a natural decorative. In the graphite drawing of winter pines over the mattress by artist Anna Kaye into the huge headboard created from reclaimed lumber, the master suite successfully combines luxurious with a earthy color palette and sustainable approach to style.

HGTV Urban Oasis 2010 in New York City Although the high-rise residence is entirely new structure, designer Vern Yip admired NYC's architectural history by covering the bedroom feature wall at paneling that resembles masonry common from the city's 19th-century buildings. Flanking the mattress are salvaged Art Nouveau keystone pediments exhibited on custom-constructed hollow pedestals, which provide hidden storage on all sides of the bed.

HGTV Urban Oasis 2010 at New York City Found in the heart of Manhattan's financial district, this 900-square-foot home is spacious by NYC standards, but integrating all the elements that Vern needed meant creating spaces which can do double duty. The kitchen space works for food preparation, dining, entertaining and as a home office. All the kitchen essentials are present, plus a multifunctional printer and full-size washer/dryer, which are hidden away inside the glossy wood cabinetry.

HGTV Green Home 2010 at Plymouth, Mass.. Resembling historical shingle-style cottages located throughout New England this home combines timeless good looks with modern energy-saving features such as solar panels around the property's observation tower along with a trickle irrigation system. A reclaimed New England fieldstone chimney and established native shrubs and trees give the recently constructed home a sense of permanence.

HGTV Green Home 2010 at Plymouth, Mass.. Boasting a 360-degree perspective of the surrounding landscape, the tower area is ideal for watching summer sunsets or winter snowstorms. Designer Linda Woodrum made this distance for a bright and airy perch in which the homeowner could watch and feel connected to nature. Rustic, shiplap pine boards, painted an ethereal sky blue, visually raise the ceiling and further improve the area's airy atmosphere.

HGTV Green Home 2010 at Plymouth, Mass.. The kitchen features a normal New England farmhouse feel, with Shaker-style closets, a tongue-and-groove ceiling and distressed hickory hardwood flooring. The quartz countertops and glass backsplash, both made primarily from recycled materials, are just two brilliant and eco friendly choices that lend the kitchen a nautical feel.

HGTV Dream Home 2010 in Sandia Park, N.M. Constructed in the pueblo revival style, this spacious home is perfectly suited to its desert environment. The plan style originated centuries past with all the Pueblo Indians who used adobe, a type of mud mixed with straw, to build durable homes in which interior temperatures stay a relatively even temperature even though scorching days and cold nights. Situated on three acres, carefully built with native plants and adjacent to protected natural keeps, the house boasts stunning desert views.

HGTV Dream Home 2010 at Sandia Park, N.M. The house's great room is a mixture of modern pared-down furnishings and Southwestern touches. Antique Native American baskets, books on Southwestern culture along with a bowl full of colorful chili peppers create a conversation-starting tablescape. Designer Linda Woodrum says of her approach to creating a vignette, "I keep taking off and adding things until I feel as I have it."

HGTV Dream Home 2010 at Sandia Park, N.M. A conventional Southwestern color palette of simmering red, trendy turquoise and golden wood tones tie the home's casita, or guest home, into the desert's spectacular sunsets. Underneath the mattress, the vibrant accent wall adds modern sparkle while supporting a good reason: The tiles were manufactured by the women of Southwest Creations Collaborative, an Albuquerque-based nonprofit organization.

HGTV Green Home 2009 in Port St. Lucie, Fla.. Modern Spanish-style architecture pairs using eco-friendly substances and drought-tolerant plants to make a royal home perfectly suited to the region's subtropical climate. Florida is an ideal place for a Spanish-style home, as Spaniards were the first Europeans to maintain this territory from the New World. Typical characteristics of this warm-climate design style are low-pitched red tile roofs, stucco exteriors and often a campanile, or bell-tower-like arrangement, reminiscent of the first Catholic assignments.

HGTV Green Home 2009 in Port St. Lucie, Fla.. Rather than matching the house's interior layout to the exterior's Spanish architecture, designer Linda Woodrum decided to highlight Florida's recognizable tropical colour palettes, and she started in the foyer, where fearless coral stripes encircle guests having "a message of what to expect, what the home will be about," she clarifies. The playful palette and wide stripes are reminiscent of the beach-cabana fashion popular in 1950s Florida. Neutral ceramic floor tiles don't divert from the eye-catching focal wall and are simple to maintain in this sandy waterfront area.

HGTV Green Home 2009 in Port St. Lucie, Fla.. Bright and sunny, the couch pops with saturated citrus colours. The area's 4-foot-tall focus, Lord Turnbull's Ornithological Study of Red Bird, was initially destined for the dining room. However, after seeing how well it worked with the chaises' kicky orange cloth, Linda decided to keep the threesome together.

HGTV Dream Home 2009 in Sonoma, Calif.. A nostalgic mix of formal Victorian and casual farmhouse styles, this house has a rustic appeal perfectly suited for its agricultural environment. The Victorian architectural attributes -- turned porch posts, spandrels, balusters and corbels -- are reminiscent of historic homes sprinkled throughout California's wine country.

HGTV Dream House 2009 at Sonoma, Calif.. Soft, neutral colors, gleaming hardwood flooring, custom cabinets and a profound sink-right-in slipper tub unite the best of Victorian elegance with farmhouse charm in the master bath. Designer Linda Woodrum selected a creamy palette as: "It is rather tricky to wear makeup or see the way you look in the mirror if you are surrounded by strong color. A subtle, neutral colour scheme goes a long way."

HGTV Dream House 2008 at Islamorada, Fla.. Constructed to resemble Florida's Cracker style -- wood-frame homes constructed throughout the state by 19th-century settlers -- that the home's deep porches catch tropical breezes from the bay. Additional Cracker influences are evident, like the shuttered windows, metal roofing and a clerestory, or cupola, designed to vent interior heat. Early settlers made the Cracker style to cope with Florida's unrelenting humid and hot climate; those homes relied upon ocean breezes to keep the inhabitants trendy in the centuries prior to air conditioning. Cracker style is currently seeing a resurgence as Floridians embrace their state's architectural background and look for energy efficient homebuilding methods.

HGTV Dream House 2008 at Islamorada, Fla.. Combining British West Indies-style mahogany furnishings using beachy shell prints and splashes of hot pink, the guest bedroom has a zest perfectly in step with the house's tropical locale. The area's actual stunner is the intense lime-green wall shade. "The colour is my favourite area of the room; it is powerful but appealing, and it's balanced with the blacks and whites," says designer Linda Woodrum.

HGTV Green Home 2008 in Hilton Head, S.C. This low-country cottage features all of the hallmarks of this enchanting and quintessentially Southern coastal design: a wide hipped roof, shuttered windows, deep covered porches and committed outdoor living spaces that take full advantage of magnificent sunsets and coastal breezes.

HGTV Green Home 2008 at Hilton Head, S.C. Full of coastal colors and whimsical sea creatures, the kids' beachy living room cleverly makes maximum use of limited space by producing designated zones. A small corner beneath the eaves is an entertainment area where kids can unwind while they watch films, play video games or even read. Separated by a gingham drape, the sleeping area features custom bunk beds with jumping dolphin headboards at a kid-pleasing colour of lime green.

HGTV Dream Home 2007 in Winter Park, Colo.. Surrounded by lush mountain beauty and situated at the bottom of a few of the most popular ski paths in the area, this Swiss chalet-style home provides breathtaking views and a home base for outdoor experiences year round. Typical attributes of chalet style -- gable roofs with wide eaves, exposed beams and mounts, balconies and enormous windows -- are all evident.

HGTV Dream House 2007 in Winter Park, Colo.. Rough-hewn wood beams are a character-adding architectural component over the lodge-style living room. Below, the area's cozy traditional furnishings, wide-plank hardwood flooring and stacked stone fireplace suit the house's relaxed, rustic feel to a tee.

HGTV Dream Home 2006 at Lake Lure, N.C. Designed to follow the large mountain ridge it straddles, this home is perfectly positioned to take in sweeping views of the picturesque Blue Ridge Mountains and placid Lake Lure. Locally sourced materials were used to create the rambling lake cottage, which can be Appalachian in style and uses many indigenous materials, such as river rock, board-and-batten siding, hand-hewn logs and bark shakes. It borrows several design features from the rustic mountain homes average from the remote regions of Appalachia.

HGTV Dream Home 2006 in Lake Lure, N.C. Serene colors and a relaxed cottage design make this guest room a dreamy escape. Designer Linda Woodrum chose to paint the vaulted ceiling the same blue as the sky outside to give the room an airy, cloudlike feel. Handmade quilts and country-inspired cloths tie this room to its Appalachian locale.

HGTV Dream Home 2006 at Lake Lure, N.C. This is log cabin luxury at its best. The soaring living area is sophisticated yet rustic, with colors that reflect the normal world out. Designer Linda Woodrum admired the rich history of North Carolina's hills by integrating regional pieces, like an antique apple crate for a coffee table, combined with locally crafted baskets, paintings and pottery. She brings the outdoors in by confronting the built-in bookcases with split branches and filling the space with pinecones and cut branches.

HGTV Dream Home 2005 in Tyler, Texas Proving the old adage that everything is bigger in Texas, this huge lakefront house boasts over 6,000 square feet of luxurious living space spread over the main house and two-story dock home. A towering 32-foot-high ceiling overlooks the great room, sunroom and kitchen, while an abundance of floor-to-ceiling windows provides a sweeping view of the lake.

HGTV Dream Home 2005 in Tyler, Texas In 780 square feet, the dock home is a luxurious guest house as opposed to a place to stash angling equipment. The little home is full with a well-appointed kitchen, living room, bathroom and dreamy bedroom, where whitewashed wood-plank walls combine with wraparound lake views to create this among the house's most intimate spaces.