She used commercial materials to build dream 2-story ADU for $30K by Kirsten Dirksen on October 1, 2023 Christi Azevedo has spent years machining metal to make furniture so when she wanted to build a fast, fire-resistant, easily-configurable …
Granny felt lonely. Her new backyard home has her relatives knocking by Kirsten Dirksen on September 3, 2023 Alice Marozas had been living alone in a 5-bedroom home since the death of her husband 7 years earlier when …
Turns drafty townhome into tranquil Cork Passive House by Kirsten Dirksen on March 19, 2023 To insulate a drafty, rundown home in Barcelona while making it as healthy as possible and also “perfectly integrated into …
LA architect needed small home. He got turnkey custom prefab by Kirsten Dirksen on March 12, 2023 Fred Fisher and Jennie Prebor’s teen boys had outgrown the family’s two-bedroom LA home. Instead of adding space to their …
T-Fold wooden home blends design & disaster-proof tech by Kirsten Dirksen on February 13, 2022 After the 2009 earthquake in Central Italy left 40,000 people homeless, Nico D’Incecco and the team at A-Fold began thinking …
Built a backyard Yome (yurt + dome) to stay in San Francisco by Kirsten Dirksen on September 5, 2021 When Ava Rosen first slept in a yome – a hybrid between a yurt and geodesic dome – she fell …
LA couple builds backyard cottage, then moves-in from main home by Kirsten Dirksen on July 19, 2020 Paul and Yuki Gasiorkiewicz bought a nondescript 1930s bungalow in LA’s Echo Park and rather than trying to convert it …
Pittsburgh incremental house: affordable home expands with owner by Kirsten Dirksen on January 26, 2020 “While we have, in Pittsburgh, autonomous vehicles driving around the city, we’re still building homes with a hammer and a …
Alleyway home in Toronto makes room splitting into 5 levels by Kirsten Dirksen on December 1, 2019 Toronto is the fastest growing city in North America, but rather than simply grow up and out, city planners are …
LA startup offers custom small prefabs adapted to area code by Kirsten Dirksen on June 2, 2019 In 2017, California lawmakers forced cities to relax their regulations on backyard units; Alexis Rivas and Jemuel Joseph were ready …