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Fritz Tiny Homes can equip their homes off-grid sites. Other available additions and upgrades include window blinds, a dishwasher, and air conditioning.

Today’s e-bikes, like this Vale Go from Electra, combine high-quality parts with modern-day smarts. It’s powered by a Bosch Active Plus motor and outfitted with Schwalbe 27.5" tires, hydraulic disc brakes, a suspension seatpost, and a Bosch Kiox display that delivers data on your speed, performance, and battery charge—all for $3,400.

Featuring architects Daniel Moreno Flores and Marie Combette

Another place where the couple minimized expenses was on the flooring. "The floor was a cost saver,

The Los Angeles–based design-build company, Homestead, converts underutilized garages or backyard sheds into ADUs that can be rented out or lived in.

When a Los Angeles–based entrepreneur and writer were seeking creative refuge, they didn’t have to travel far for inspiration. The duo simply looked to their backyard to erect a 245-square-foot guesthouse on their hillside property in the Los Feliz neighborhood. Nestled just behind their main residence, the tranquil space, designed by Jerome Byron, serves as a work/play sanctuary for the couple and their two children.

The bedroom area, adjacent to the living space, offers cinematic views of the verdant landscape. “The diagonally oriented floor plan creates exciting spaces that exude outward toward the exterior,” Dornier says.

Roombus's all-in-one smart home - the Nest - comes in three sizes and has all the connected living features built into each unit, powered by its own RoomOS smart home system.

As it's homes are built in a controlled indoor environment, Method Homes can streamline the installation of smart home technology in each unit.

Devle's Skyview model home in Ventura, California. All Dvele's homes are built on the DveleIQ smart home platform that is designed to optimize the health of the building and its occupants and can use artificial intelligent to learn and adapt its systems to optimize the living environment.

The piston-operated pine sunshades lift upwards to protect the exterior deck and give residents the ability to manually modulate the home’s access to daylight and shade as the sun moves across the sky.

The prefab roughly measures 35.5 feet by 15.7 feet and comprises an open kitchen, living room, bedroom, and bathroom.

The large window that floods the interior can be sealed off for privacy with sliding shutters.

The Shelter team enjoy the breakfast nook. The kitchen is fully stocked, including a tasty variety of spices from Spicewalla, an offshoot of Chai Pani, an award-winning Indian street food restaurant in downtown Asheville.

The home’s walls are clad in Oregon white oak reclaimed from a dismantled barn on the property. Jessica Helgerson chose to paint them white to create a bright, airy look, but she left the kitchen wall au naturel for a visual pop. With storage at a premium, the kitchen needed ample cabinetry as well as some ingenious solutions—including a pull-out cabinet hidden in one half of the range hood. A vintage cabinet on the left wall provides open storage for everyday dishes.

After finding paradise on a Hawaiian papaya farm, filmmaker Jess Bianchi and jewelry designer Malia Grace Mau tapped San Francisco artist Jay Nelson to design and build their dream home in just five weeks. Located just one block from the beach, the home takes inspiration from laid-back surf shacks and is mainly built with reclaimed wood.

The Nook exterior features shiplap cypress siding, a reclaimed oak deck, and an entranceway of oak blackened in the traditional Japanese method.