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 ...

Not so long ago, senior citizens lived out their final days in multi-generational family homes where younger relatives could care for them. In some parts of the world, that’s still the most common ...

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 ...

With nearly two decades in journalism, Dori Zinn has covered loans and other personal finance topics for the better part of her career. She loves helping people learn about money, whether that’s ...

Ever since the first Lord of the Rings movie came out, people have been fascinated with the concept of having their own "hobbit home" – a quaint, vaulted house that sits beneath a covering of soil and ...

Zip Kit offers up a variety of compact homes – from studio sized houses to three bedroom homes ranging in prices from $40,000 to $185,000 depending on finishes. Timberhawk Homes has been building ...

Milan 2013: Swedish architects Claesson Koivisto Rune will present a kit-of-parts for a prefabricated Scandinavian house in Milan this April (+ slideshow). "The prefab/kit house market generally ...

PERRYVILLE, MO. - A pastoral setting just west of Perryville, Mo., features an ultramodern house that the designer-in-residence hopes will become a big part of the future of prefabricated housing. The ...

In the late 1800s and early 1900s one could purchase the parts of a house from a catalogue. The components would then be delivered to the homeowner by train. Most often the homeowner would put the ...