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 ...

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 ...

This modular/prefab home is customizable and is built to state code! The house we are touring today is a “off frame modular.” The manufacturer for this house is Commodore Homes. The model for this ...

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 ...

We found a foldable tiny house kit that can be assembled in a weekend, tool-free. Its charming A-frame design has a lovely ...

This modular/prefab home is customizable and is built to state code! The house we are touring today is a “modular.” The ...

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 ...

Prefabs such as this 1,800-square-foot one on San Juan Island in Washington represent a speedier, though not always cheaper, alternative to traditional housing construction. Method Homes When Maura ...

A prefab mirrored house that can be plopped down anywhere. Photo: Raido Saar/Courtesy of ÖÖD It was while hiking through the forests of southern Estonia with their girlfriends that Andreas Tiik, 29, ...

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 ...