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 ...

If you've ever considered going down the prefabricated cottage home kit road, you may have found yourself overwhelmed by a mountain of information. What's a prefab home, after all? Is it the same ...

A prefabricated home is assembled on-site from prebuilt parts, as opposed to a stick-built home, which is constructed from the ground up in the traditional way. Prefabricated houses are often thought ...

Bottom Line: This customizable tiny house offers a secure and comfortable living space. It's durable, well insulated and highly adaptable to satisfy individual tastes. Pros: This model arrives fully ...

This minimalist off-grid prefab is designed to not look like a prefab. For all their advantages when it comes to quality and sustainability, prefabs still get unfairly characterized as being ugly, ...

Some Americans apparently love to fantasize about an extreme downsize that reduces their personal space to the bare minimum and slashes their cost of living to a fraction of what it once was. Hence, ...

PERRYVILLE, MO. - A pastoral setting just west of Perryville, Mo., features an ultramodern house that the designer-in-residence hopes will become a big part of the future of prefabricated housing. The ...

In the late 1800s and early 1900s one could purchase the parts of a house from a catalogue. The components would then be delivered to the homeowner by train. Most often the homeowner would put the ...