Cabins

Get back to basics with these features on modern cabins. Whether you’re interested in renting one for the weekend or dreaming of moving into a tree house, explore these homes and get in touch with your earthy side.

Like a little chapel on the prairie, architect Jean-Baptiste Barache’s simply elegant retreat in the tiny Normandy town of Auvillier is a modern play on centuries-old forms and...

- 9 years ago

Retreat in the Aspen Grove

Studio B, a Colorado based architecture and interior design practice with offices in Boulder and Aspen, first designed the grandiose main residence in the backcountry a...

- a year ago

A Northern Haven

North Haven, a rocky island in Maine’s Penobscot Bay, is quintessentially New England. As it happens, so is this boat barn–inspired brand of rugged, regional modernism.

- 9 years ago

This Snowbound Pad Will Actually Make You Miss Winter

In Quebec's Eastern Townships, a home camouflages into the snow.

- 2 years ago

Landscape, the Architect

High up in the mountains of Norway, the V-Lodge’s simplicity in design and choice of materials speak to its wild surroundings.

- 2 years ago

Find Sanctuary in This Chalet in the Italian Alps

La Pedevilla blends traditional and contemporary elements in the alpine landscape of South Tyrol, Italy.

- 2 years ago

Straw Tech

When Anders Stokholm asked his old friend Felix Jerusalem to design his family’s new home in Eschenz, a northern Swiss village on the Rhine River and Untersee Lake, the client and...

- 9 years ago

Quietly Swiss

A chalet shaped after the surrounding mountains of Les Jeurs.

- 2 years ago

Just Getting to This Remote Patagonian Retreat Is an Adventure

A vacation home for a Chilean family rises on stilts from a rocky cliff, enjoying idyllic views of Lago Todos los Santos.

- 2 years ago

Red Cedar Is the Key Ingredient of This Wooded Cottage For Sale

Located just an hour-and-a-half away from Chicago, a three-bedroom modern cottage in Michigan City, Indiana is for sale for just under 900K.

- 2 years ago

FAHouse: A Double Triangular House in the Forest

- 2 years ago

7 Breathtaking Tree Houses You Can Actually Rent on Airbnb

While tree houses are frequently available for residence within imaginary kingdoms, fantasy novels, and the landscape of our childhood memories, they're harder to come by in the...

- a year ago

A Lakeside Home Brings a Scandinavian Sensibility to the Midwest

After a devastating fire, architect David Salmela designs a house to replace a beloved lakeside retreat in Wisconsin.

- 2 years ago

This Snug Guesthouse in Upstate New York Is Good Enough to Live In

A tiny outbuilding offers a cozy living space inside a simple shell.

- 3 years ago

How Much Could You Do with 270 Square Feet?

Taking its lead from a Swedish building code, a new book proposes ingenious concepts that can fit in 270 square feet.

- 4 years ago

La Maison Haute by Atelier Pierre Thibault

La Maison Haute is a minimal home located in Quebec, Canada, designed by Atelier Pierre Thibault.

- 2 years ago

Take Me Home

A “tree house” of clean lines, ample glass, and thoughtful ingenuity lets a Washington, DC–area family and a stream of weekend guests enjoy prefab living in an unlikely locale:...

- 10 years ago

Hiding Out in Montana's Rocky Mountains

Each week, we tap into Dwell's Instagram community to bring you the most captivating design and architecture shots of the week.

- 2 years ago

By the Book

This modern log cabin from architecture students at Auburn University was designed to be completed for $20,000—an admirable solution for the down-at-heel looking to put down roots.

- 9 years ago

Off the Beaten Path

A dramatic departure from your typical cabin on the lake, this unique retreat adds shades of black to a tiny island awash with local color.

- 9 years ago

Surf Shacks 026 - Mason St. Peter

Since first starting this series, we’ve been haunted by images of Mason St. Peter and Serena Mitnik-Miller’s cabin hideaway perched in a hillside of Topanga Canyon and have been...

- 2 years ago

On the Rock

Katja and Adam Thom’s cabin, on an exposed postglacial archipelago in Canada’s windswept Georgian Bay, is more than eight miles from the nearest road.

- 10 years ago

When Living on the Edge is Super Comfortable

Off the coast of British Columbia—on a site accessible only by boat—a family of Vancouver urbanites commissioned a sustainable cabin for weekend getaways that feels a world away.

- 8 years ago

A Couple’s Cherished Vacation Home is Given a Second Life

By building a modern property next to their traditional cabin, a couple starts fresh on familiar land.

- 2 years ago

Forgo the Tent and Give a Tiny House a Test Drive

Giving users a taste of the tiny house movement, one startup offers compact cabins for short stays.

- 2 years ago

Backcountry Haven

Professional backcountry snowboarders Zach and Cindi Lou Grant modernize a run-down A-frame cabin outside of Park City, Utah, to help them access untracked powder and follow their...

- 2 years ago