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 ...

The LV150 is built to withstand winds of up to 150 mph and lists for $38,760. It is 1,150 square feet. It's not often that the terms "prefabricated home" and "modern architecture" are heard together.

The low-slung structure tucked among the unearthly boulders of Joshua Tree looks vaguely like many other modern prefab homes from the last decade — streamlined silhouette, eco-chic materials, ...

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 ...

Ty Sharp, a 26-year-old software consultant from Aspen, Colo., is building a 2,876-square-foot vacation home in Ventura, Calif. The four-bedroom, four-bathroom custom home, for which he’s paying ...

The do-it-yourself, modest tiny home boom is gaining popularity in an era of shocking rent increases and low housing inventory — and we may have America's former largest retailer, Sears, to thank for ...