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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jamie Hailstone is a U.K-based reporter, who covers sustainability. From the heavy use of raw materials to logistics and ...

Some were off-grid cabins toying with convention; others, warm family homes hiding mechanized production. All of them prove ...

Fast to build, eco-friendly and affordable: modular and pre-fabricated homes have been touted as a possible solution to ...

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 ...

Korean tech giant LG has unveiled a futuristic Smart Cottage, a modular and energy-efficient modern home appliance system. The Smart Cottage’s module components are made with solid low-carbon steel ...

Set on a vineyard in California’s Napa Valley, a compound intended to entertain a large family is in the early stages of design. In addition to the main residence—in what Oakland, California-based ...

DAGOpen OÜ has just won the architectural competition for a standard design of Ukrainian Family houses, with their design “Hata.” The competition invited 17 designs from Estonian and Ukrainian ...

With towering walls of glass, heated concrete floors and high ceilings, Minnesota's iconic FlatPak House is back on the market. Designed by Charlie Lazor, the house near Cedar Lake in Minneapolis was ...