Family home designs often make up the bulk of the work portfolio in smaller architecture studios or individual architect's practices. However, only a few studios can boast such a long list of built projects and extensive experience with this typology as Prague-based Stempel & Tesař architekti. In conversation with professor Ján Stempel and his colleague Jan Jakub Tesař, twenty years his junior, we contemplate the theory and practice of individual living and the (non)existence of trends.