It essentially looked like an egg inside a box; it was an incredible challenge,” recalls Paskoski, a leading high-end Palm Beach luxury home builder. “Once we had the new house built over and above, we took the roof off of the existing house and ran the walls up 5 or 6 feet — ultimately connecting it spaceship like to the floor of the hovering structure — so you would never know it was two homes at one time,” says the big-ticket contractor, adding that such unusual requests are no longer an anomaly but the new norm in luxury-home building.