Small Fabulous

Cully Grove

Chairs from Dietiker surround an expandable table from Kave Home.

Dwell’s first issue devoted to prefab (“Prefab is Pretty Fabulous!” January 2001) featured this black-and-white home by Anderson Anderson Architects.

Marie Saldivar’s experimental metal-clad dwelling is the perfect place to host family—and proof of concept for her new prefab company.

A Murphy bed pulls out of a central, maple-clad volume that also holds a sleeping loft, a bathroom, and a kitchen designed and built by Remo. “When it’s so small, you see everything a little bit closer,” Remo says. “There was more pressure to do it right.”

Floor plan for Refugio Bariloche by Nicolás Tovo and Teresa Sarmiento

A wood-burning stove heats the 840-square-foot home during winter months.