Looking to build your own backyard house? These ready-made retreats are packed full of inspiration.

In a leafy Victorian suburb, a prefab extension offers a superb solution to a family’s need for extra space.

Thanks to the efficiency, flexibility, and affordability that prefabricated homes can offer, they’ve continued to gain popularity...

Two pods for living and sleeping meld with the outdoors through a patented, reversible window concept.

The UK’s Worthing Council partners with IKEA and BoKlok to bring 162 low-cost modular homes to the English seaside town.

It’s easy to buy into the hype around shipping container homes, but there are some fundamentals you should know before going all...

From preliminary guides, to lists of trusted companies, to exemplary floor plans, these resources will get you started on your...

Two San Francisco art and travel addicts overhauled a loft—and customized a pair of shipping containers—to accommodate their...

Designed by one of America’s leading cargotecture proponents, this modern shipping container home in New Jersey is seeking a new...

An attractive shipping container house shows the benefits of prefab living.

These homes across the world take advantage of the expressive nature of board-formed concrete.

Wood has a way of making a home feel both warm and textured—and introduces a natural layer that can have a powerful effect on a...

This prefabricated home in France was built to embrace the neighborhood.

Wood in general is a beautiful, evocative natural material, and when it's saved from a landfill and reused, it has even more...

Whether your budget is $10,000 or $200,000, this roundup of modular home prices in your area puts prefab within reach.

Get ready to disentangle the specific modes of construction for homes with ready-made parts.

Inspired by local residential typology, this 850-square-foot modular home has high ceilings, light-filled rooms, and a central...

From repurposed shipping containers to cabin retreats, we look at a range of prefabricated, modular homes in Colorado.

If you’re bored of solid ground and want to try out a life on water, then these international companies will give you the tools...

Feeling the squeeze from Hong Kong's affordable housing crisis, one architect turns to a surprising new micro-housing solution.

Serving Wisconsin, the Midwest, and beyond, these prefab home companies are focusing on quality materials, design, and...

These prefab home builders located throughout Indiana produce a wide range of residences.

There’s even a shipping container sitting in the kitchen.

This portable dwelling, made of two shipping containers, is ready for its next move.

These shipping containers have left their itinerant lives as vessels that carried goods around the world, only to be reborn as...

Matt and Barbara Mooney worked with Michael Gooden of M Gooden Design, a boutique design firm in Dallas, to build a home out of...

Nestled in a tiny town off the coast, this container home echoes the main ingredient the owners had hoped for in a weekend...

Paris, also known as "The City of Light", is a breathtaking city.

Dubbed the “Monster House” for its previously unruly condition, this renovated 1905 home just hit the market for $1.2M.

Explore Ecospace Studio's modular buildings that serve a variety of valuable purposes.

These modern modular homes and accompanying floor plans showcase the layouts, variations, and opportunities that prefab builds...

This 600-square-foot retreat, designed for an Austin couple, is located deep within a 30,000-acre ranch in West Texas.

With a sleek prototype in Emeryville, California, under its belt, Simpatico Homes sets out to redefine prefab's cost –and...

In South Korea, shipping containers have been used to build amazing projects including an art school, low-cost housing, a...