Dreaming of less home maintenance, lower utility bills, and a more laidback lifestyle? These small house designs will inspire ...

House Plans Can Help Make Passive Design Solutions Go Mainstream. Natalie Leonard expands the market with affordable plans designed to the Passive House US standard.

I have owned a copy of the 1965 Small House Design book for many years, and have always been impressed with the houses. My late mother-in-law lived in one of them, and having grown up downtown in ...

True house pattern books, focused more on design and layout than construction, would become more common in the mid and late 19th century. While hunting through some period architecture books we ran ...