Before & After: This Accessible Catskills Retreat Brings Together Three Generations of Family Designer Fauzia Khanani of Studio For revises a ’70s ranch house to provide independence for the homeowners’ daughter, who uses a...
Cosmic Buildings’s $279K Tiny Home Recycles Water and Generates Its Own Solar Power The 380-square-foot prefab is equipped to go in your backyard or completely off-grid.
Construction Diary: In the Mojave Desert, a First-Time Builder Takes On a Tricky Prefab Home Assuming the role of contractor, Julie Park works through trials and tribulations to construct a Blue Sky house with a complex...
Want to Design Your Own ADU? This Prefab Company Gives You the Tools Type Five lets clients choose everything from floor plans to finishes via its website configurator, and then manages the rest.
Black Gables Give a Filmmaker’s Venice Beach Home a Dramatic Edge Ras-a studio plants a dwelling and an ADU on a wide Los Angeles lot while preserving its beloved avocado tree.
Budget Breakdown: This Completely Restored $500K Airstream Is Built Like a Yacht Drawing inspiration from boat design, Innovative Spaces rebuilds a 1953 trailer from top to bottom with a custom mahogany...
You (Likely) Won’t Need a Permit for KitHAUS’s $38K Backyard Studio The roughly 120-square-foot prefab is the smallest offering from the California company, which uses an aluminum system to create...
Two Winemakers Build a Compact, Fire-Resistant Home With an Earthy Palette In Healdsburg, California, a couple hire TenBooks and Social Studio to create a resilient vineyard house with a ground-floor...
Before & After: Two Friends Give a Dated ’90s Cabin a Moody Reinvention Photographer Bess Friday hires designer Hana Mattingly to revamp her woodsy Truckee getaway with a striking monochromatic palette.
Quartzite Counters and Cedar Cladding Come Standard in These $65K Tiny Homes The 200-square-foot unit by Clever Tiny Homes also figures in storage and a Murphy bed that don’t dominate the floor plan.
This Prefab Builder Never Makes the Same Home Twice—and You Can See It in the Price Turkel Design creates residences starting at $1.7M based entirely on a client’s personal preferences.
Budget Breakdown: She Turned a Joshua Tree Shack Into a Homestead for the Long Haul With $456K A 1954 one-room cabin gave designer Veronica Koltuniak access to the deep desert.
Solar Arrays and Good Insulation Make These Prefab Residences Net-Zero—Even in Cold Climates Maine design firm BrightBuilt Home offers 20 modular templates that emphasize year-round energy savings.
The Garden Is the Heart of This Revived London Terrace House Oliver Leech Architects brings in skylights, sliders, and swaths of sage to give a dreary Herne Hill home a fresh start.
Hoteliers, You Can Create Destination Retreats With These Luxe Tiny Cabins High-end prefab maker Moliving partners with proprietors to establish resort-like accommodations in a wilderness setting.
Work/Life Balance? This Architect Couple’s Cambridge Home Doesn’t See a Need to Strike One Harvard professors Sarah Whiting and Ron Witte reenvisioned a commercial space as a two-story residence and office that serves as...
Midcentury-Style Butterfly Roofs Top Off These Luxe Prefab Homes Stillwater Dwellings creates soaring, estate-worthy residences that start at $500 per square foot.
This Prefab Builder Is Making Homes That Are Designed to Keep You Healthy Dvele says it uses sustainable materials to build its residences, which come with air and water filtration systems you can...
These Tiny Prefab Cabins Are Designed to Feel Like Luxe Hotel Rooms The founders of Nokken applied their backgrounds in high-end hospitality to bring upscale touches to their units, which start at...
Before & After: This Sunny San Diego Revamp Shows the Power of Paint Designer Raili Clasen forges through a challenging loan process to salvage a rundown property—saving its bocce court in the...
Two Friends Started This Prefab Company to Beat the Weather and Build Homes Year Round Collective Homes makes everything from ADUs to single-family residences using a panelized system that can be put together come...
Tini Living Makes Tweakable Steel-Framed ADUs That Start at $38K Spanish architects Ignacio de la Vega and Pilar Cano Lasso’s prefabs are already certified in California, New York, and...
In the Foothills of the Andes, a Ceramicist Fires Up a Creative Retreat Hebra Arquitectos uses charred timber and local stone to craft an elemental home that blends into its rugged setting.
This Prefab Builder Uses the Same System to Build Floating Homes and More Traditional Residences SysHaus relies on a patented metal framework to create customizable designs that start at $260 per square foot.
Prefab Builder Pluspuu Makes New and Improved Log Cabins Starting at $175K The Finnish company’s models come as a kit of parts made from engineered lumber that stack together like a 3D puzzle.
These $31K Micro Cabins Are Light Enough to Be Dropped Into Place by a Helicopter Finnish firm Studio Puisto imagined the prefabs for hoteliers setting up off-grid retreats and homeowners wanting one for their...
More Tent Than Cabin, Jupe’s $25K Prefabs Don’t Require Permitting The flat-pack structures were designed to be easily deployed, a feature that makes them as suited for glamping as it does to aid...
You Can Vanish Into the Woods With These $125K Mirrored Prefabs ÖÖD House covers its tiny homes in floor-to-ceiling reflective panels that make them disappear into their setting.
This California ADU Builder Minimizes Waste by Taking a Whole-Tree Approach Masaya Homes’ $50K prefabs are made of teak that’s sustainably farmed in Nicaragua.
Before & After: In the East Bay, a Tumbledown Midcentury Turns Over a New Leaf On a Piedmont hillside, Regan Baker Design and TGH Architects revitalize a 1947 home built around a massive tipu tipu tree.
Two Friends Started This Prefab Company Where the Cabins Come on Wheels Bivvi delivers customizable A-frames on trailers. At $33,000, its new Base Camp model comes with even more options.
Ready for a Fresh Coat of Paint? Check Out the Top Colors of 2024 We ask leading brands to share the shades they nominated as next year’s “it” hue—and how to use them in your home.
Before & After: Every Day Is Summer Camp at This Groovy, ’70s-Inspired Cabin Form & Field cheers up a dated mountain home with punchy tile, adult-sized bunk beds, and plenty of cork.
This Los Angeles ADU Builder Says It Can Add a Home to Your Backyard in Nine Months Prefab company Cover offers turnkey projects by handling permitting, installation, and everything in between.
In England, a Couple Build a Serene Backyard Home for Aging in Place With accessibility and sustainability top of mind, architect Oliver Leech designs a garden dwelling that brings a family closer...
This Supersized Cabin in a Colorado Ski Town Brings Three Generations Together Architect Susan Conger-Austin expanded on the idea of a modest mountain home by playing with scale and the all-black aesthetic.