Call it a mother-in-law suite, a granny flat, a guest house, a backyard office, an accessory dwelling unit, or just your own sweet compact home. Whichever name you choose for it, there’s no denying ...

This Amazon tiny house has a modular layout and a chalet-style covered front porch that’s made for year-round outdoor ...

Some were off-grid cabins toying with convention; others, warm family homes hiding mechanized production. All of them prove ...

Continuing the run of collaborations from Californian prefab home designer and builder Plant Prefab, the company has announced a line of three Passive House-certified “LivingHomes,” all designed in ...

More than 20 years after I first promoted the building method at Dwell, it has yet to live up to its promise—but it can. This story is part of Dwell’s yearlong 25th-anniversary celebration of the ...

Dvele manufactures highly energy-efficient, self-sustaining prefab homes. With historic wildfires sweeping the West Coast and burning over 3.2 million acres in California alone, it is clear in 2020 ...

SHERI KOONES is the author of six “Prefabulous” books, including “Prefabulous Small Houses” (Taunton Press, 2016; $21.95), which features 32 gorgeously livable, inspiringly sustainable prefabricated ...

On a mid-September morning, six trucks pulled into an alleyway of Oakland’s fast-gentrifying Golden Gate neighborhood, their oversize load wrapped in white plastic sheets — each truck carrying a piece ...

With towering walls of glass, heated concrete floors and high ceilings, Minnesota's iconic FlatPak House is back on the market. Designed by Charlie Lazor, the house near Cedar Lake in Minneapolis was ...

Fast to build, eco-friendly and affordable: modular and pre-fabricated homes have been touted as a possible solution to ...