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 ...

Not so long ago, senior citizens lived out their final days in multi-generational family homes where younger relatives could care for them. In some parts of the world, that’s still the most common ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

The Vermont-based company is best know for producing energy efficient urethane panels, but their latest venture sees Vantem assembling their products into prefab homes. With the six available ...

who introduced automated conveyor belts to the process. The assembly line was so effective that it increased productivity by almost 500%. And as these processes were being refined, the housing ...

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 ...