Charles and Ray Eames built their Pacific Palisades home in 1949 as Case Study House No. 8, one of the most photographed ...

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 ...

Home is where the heart is — and home is where the art is. The famed married industrial designers Charles and Ray Eames were ...

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 ...

While not a perfect solution in every case, prefabricated construction presents a compellingly sustainable alternative to traditional building methods.

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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For better or for worse, you're probably familiar with the process of assembling furniture. You're sent the pieces and the tools, ...

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 ...