# @dwellmagazine on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DNT5ZAtS-cP
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/33973670-dwellmagazine-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2025-08-13T21:49:53.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Dwell (@dwellmagazine) — https://gondola.cc/dwellmagazine

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With $237K CAD, an architect couple built their new home on old land. “For us, it was about designing a home for the life we wanted to live,” says Marika Drolet-Ferguson. She and her partner, Mathieu Boucher-Côté, who cofounded design firm nordais_architecture, had spent years living nomadically when they decided to settle down and have a child. Between teaching gigs and artist residencies, they’d often return to Marika’s childhood home, so it made sense to them to build something there; it was just a matter of asking themselves what a permanent home might look like. During the design process, a key influence was the Swedish sommarhus tradition they encountered while doing a residency in 2016. “Everyone just disappears to their sommarhus in nature. They’re disconnected from technology,” says Marika. Her graduate research also shaped their thinking on density and multigenerational living. By sharing a wall with her parents’ home (and a connection through the basement) the couple intentionally designed their home to be flexible: it could someday be used as an office, a rental unit, or even swapped with her parents as they age. For now, it suits their current life perfectly as a family of three. Swipe to see their final budget, and see exactly where every dollar went at the link in bio.
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Photos by michaudfelix_photo
Story by laurennicoley6
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