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These tiny treasures are just the ticket for those who are hard to please.

Oaxaca Interests is a Texas-based real estate operator, developer, and investment firm. The company partnered with award-winning architecture practice Lake|Flato to found HiFAB.

HiFAB will arrive at the build site several days prior to delivery of home in order to pour the foundation and to prepare for connections. On the day of delivery, HiFAB will "Crane Set” the home, tie into the connections, and apply exterior final touches.

Pratt modular homes are budget friendly and customizable, with over 300 standard kit home floor plans to choose from with an infinite number of possibilities.

Countrymark Homes provides hand-hewn, Appalachian rustic, and round log profiles creating superior authenticity and eye appeal. Their Hewn Profile is handcrafted in a local Amish community in Southern Indiana.

The use of consistent and contrasting flooring minimizes disorientation, and decks are accessed via zero-step thresholds. “More and more, I’m having talks with clients about flexible homes,” Wylie says. “They want homes that will work now and for future needs.”

Haus.me says construction permits and foundations are not needed for the smaller mOne and mTwo units.

Architect Jim Garrison of Brooklyn-based Garrison Architects was asked to design a retreat for visiting families on an idyllic lakeside expanse of land at a boarding school for troubled teens, Star Commonwealth in Albion, Michigan. To drastically reduce academic interruption and cut site noise, Garrison decided early on to create an 1,100-square-foot modular building dubbed Koby, with two bedrooms on opposite sides of the structure and a common dining area in the middle “as a therapeutic space for families to gather and eat together.”

House No. 10 floor plan

The new volume extends into the backyard but increases the house’s footprint by only 225 square feet. It is slightly taller than the existing structure, minimizing overlap between roofs. The cladding is composed of marine-grade plywood panels, colored black with Benjamin Moore’s Arborcoat exterior stain, to create an affordable facsimile of cement fiberboard panels. The patio is paved in black decomposed granite.

The NanaWall door system created another challenge in terms of seismic retrofitting since it created such a large opening. "Meeting current seismic code is a really high bar; you do a lot of work no one sees," says Pond. The Gellermans chose to bring their first and second floors up to seismic code for existing structures.

Give thanks to mom on Sunday, May 9 with these showstopping gifts that all clock in under $50.

The vaulted ceiling adds an expansive airy feel that the original home lacked. Now, the wall of windows perfectly frames the gorgeous overlook.

Plant Prefab’s LivingHome 10 is a 406-square-foot tiny house packed with smart tech that is designed to slot into dense urban environments, making it ideal for a guesthouse or rental.

An Ethos bathtub contrasts woodwork by Porcelanosa in the master bathroom.