Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If you've ever considered going down the prefabricated cottage home kit road, you may have found yourself overwhelmed by a ...

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 ...

Snow loads, –30 °C nights, and humid summer heatwaves test any cabin. A prefab kit that thrives in those extremes starts with a super-tight shell: thick wall assemblies, continuous insulation, and ...

Despite seemingly endless interest in decorating, landscaping, buying, staging and selling houses, actually building a house is a mysterious process that is mostly left to professionals. But for some ...

When Anthony Belisle co-founded Supermod on Vancouver Island two years ago he wasn’t just thinking about speed or affordability, but also how to design and build modular homes that don’t look ...

With all the talk about housing affordability out of reach for many British Columbians, it shouldn’t come as a surprise that the popularity of modular homes is on the rise. But these new modular homes ...

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 ...

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 ...

Despite seemingly endless interest in decorating, landscaping, buying, staging and selling houses, actually building a house is a mysterious process that is mostly left to professionals. But for some ...