Prefab homes are starting to sizzle. If the umbrella term for a host of building styles was once shorthand for “cheap,” the ideas we featured this year shrug off that perception by proving how well-designed residences can come as a kit of parts, an arrangement of modules, or a panelized system, and can be made of everything from CNC-milled engineered lumber to corrugated steel. Often, they are cheaper than stick-built homes, but not for a lack of quality—or personal touch. Here are the best prefabs of 2023.

As the prefab industry thrives, designers continue to sculpt out niches in the still-burgeoning market and turn to prefabrication as resource for bespoke projects. From a bright CLT insertion into a brick-and-mortar London townhome or a glass-encased, one-room hideaway, let the latest in prefab expand your idea of what this technology holds in store.

The Tide Turns for a Trio of Prefab Pod Houses in the San Juan Islands

This Tiny $8K Prefab Stretches Open for When You Need a Little More Room

A Prefab Cabin Camouflaged in a South American Forest Glows From Within

Dimensions X Is Building Prefab Cabins Made Almost Entirely From Recyclable Materials

This Slide-Open Prefab Was Designed to Set Your Brain on “Default Mode”

This Cantilevered Home Near Madrid Was Built With Tiny Prefab Modules for €324,000

It Took Four Weeks to Assemble This Prefab A-Frame in the Galápagos Islands

Connect Homes Builds Modernist-Inspired Prefabs With a Surprising Amount of Floor-to-Ceiling Glass

Prefab Builder Blend Projects Makes Tiny Cabins and Full-Blown Homes Made of Healthy Materials

Be Warned: This $350K Prefab May Tempt You to Move to the Tasmanian Bush

The Top 10 Prefab Homes of 2022

Jens Risom’s Legacy Lives On at His Son’s Block Island Prefab

These Tiny Prefab Cabins Can Be Wheeled Into Place to Create Entire Resorts

This London Terrace Home’s Prefab Addition Is Just Bananas

This Prominent U.K. Prefab Builder Is Scaling Up From Cabins to Custom Residences

A Prefab Tiny House Springs Up on a Fairytale Site in the Bavarian Alps

This New Prefab Manufacturer Is Making Modular “Haciendas” in Texas Starting at $249K

You Can Power These New All-Electric Tiny Homes With Your Regular-Sized Home—or Even a Car

This $32K Backyard Prefab Office Features Walls of Windows

A California Startup Rolls Out Flat-Pack Tiny Homes Priced at $38K

A Svelte $79K Prefab Cabin Promises to Work as Well in Your Backyard as It Does in the Woods