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 ...

Whether it’s to sleep, work, or build, there are plenty of reasons to add a tiny home to your yard. Kit homes make it simpler than ever to build an outdoor structure. They’re essentially tiny homes in ...

Despite seemingly endless interest in decorating, landscaping, buying, staging and selling houses, actually building a house is a mysterious process that is mostly left to professionals. But for some ...

The Finnish prefab builder uses locally sourced spruce and pine, touting them for their performance in a range of climates.

Zip Kit offers up a variety of compact homes – from studio sized houses to three bedroom homes ranging in prices from $40,000 to $185,000 depending on finishes. Timberhawk Homes has been building ...

Below is a listing of companies that offer green dwellings in the form of modular, prefab/manufactured, compact and/or mobile structures. These days, there are many such options available that are not ...

Plant Prefab’s Nest LivingHome toolkit includes multiple options for designs that can be built on unused lots throughout a city. “In the last 10 years, there’s been this kind of unprecedented increase ...

Adding two income-producing rentals or self-contained guest homes next to an existing house on a city lot continues to get easier in Oregon. Factory-made compact dwellings, complete with windows and ...

Wildfires, hurricanes, tornadoes and floods fueled by manmade climate change are changing the housing industry. That's ...

Despite seemingly endless interest in decorating, landscaping, buying, staging and selling houses, actually building a house is a mysterious process that is mostly left to professionals. But for some ...