Marry the small-house craze with the equally hot trend of prefab homes, and what do you get? Small prefab homes, which are the housing industry’s equivalent to miniature schnauzers tied with a gift ...

Quick look: The book profiles 32 homes across the country, and explains some of the latest technologies. In a foreword, Robert Redford extols the ecological virtues of going prefab. Author Sheri ...

How many times did you feel like you wanted to just get away from everything and everyone and to spend some time in a small ...

Prefab housing startup Koto has unveiled a series of tiny timber cabins with minimalist designs inspired by friluftsliv — translated as “free air life,” this Nordic concept is the act of embracing ...

Last year we reported on 2by4 Architects' Recreational Island House, a particularly appealing vacation home constructed on a small island in Loosdrecht, the Netherlands. The Dutch firm received such ...

A young Traverse City contractor’s idea for a green prefab could revolutionize the concept of Northern Michigan cabins. A Northern Michigan builder and entrepreneur redefines the word modular with his ...

We've been taught to believe that we can't have it all in life, and that also applies to the current trend of downsizing. After all, if you do decide to downsize and move into a tiny house, you can't ...

The first two in a new line of factory-built cabins are scheduled to roll out of a Waukegan factory this week on the backs of trucks that will deliver them to a half-acre site next to a cove in ...

Latvian architects Toms Kokins, Ēriks Grūbe and Mārtns Hermansons came up with the ESLICE prefab home as a way to find a balance between wants and needs. The small two-story home has two bedrooms, a ...

Author Sheri Koones believes that prefab houses (or "prefabulous," as she calls them) are the homes of the future. She's written five books about them. In the new "Prefabulous Small Houses" from The ...

Italian designers created a prefab cabin called Mountain Refuge. The modular cabin is about 260 square feet, with the potential to combine several units together. The designers are looking for prefab ...

Prefabricated housing startup Koto has launched a series of modular one- to four-bedroom cabins that can be customised with add-ons such as saunas and outdoor showers. The Scandinavian-style cabins, ...