The traditional dream cabin meets the twenty-first century. There is a new style of architectural design emerging in the West, one that taps the spirit of history even while keeping an eye toward the future. It’s an aesthetic that integrates a homestead heritage with sustainable living, luxury with logic, pleasure with pragmatism. The ideas might be applied to a historic train depot that is converted to an urban-inspired living space, a farmstead reclaimed as a family retreat or a new sod-roof home constructed of salvaged and recycled woods. It’s one part rustic, one part recycled and all parts refined style to assuage the yearning for nature, open space and the need to own a piece of it, if only for a little while.