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 ...

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 ...

The Australian company begins with cross-laminated timber to create carbon-negative homes starting at $145K AUD. Welcome to Prefab Profiles, an ongoing series of interviews with people transforming ...

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 ...

Brazilian architecture firm Porto Quadrado has revealed a serene refuge composed of three prefab cabins tucked into the wilderness of Brazil’s Rio Grande do Sul. The Alpes São Chico Housing Complex is ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Five years ago, while driving cross-country with his 11-year-old son to install the first cabin in his new prefab building venture, Andrew Kelly passed a smallish log cabin — the kind sometimes used ...