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663 Sq Ft Modern One-Bedroom Ranch Plan

This 663-square-foot one-bedroom ranch combines a compact living core, laundry and mudroom functions, patio sliders, steep 12:12 roof forms, and a slab foundation.

House Plans Desk10 min read

800 Sq Ft Mid-Century Cottage Plan With Two Bedrooms

This 800-square-foot mid-century cottage uses a shallow shed roof, deep eaves, two bedrooms, two bathrooms, and a compact open living core. The review examines circulation, storage, outdoor edges, and eight finish studies.

House Plans Desk12 min read

2-Bedroom Cottage House Plan: 967 Sq Ft With Vaulted Living

This compact cottage plan fits one or two bedrooms, two full baths, and a vaulted living core into 967 heated square feet. The review explains the main level, unfinished-basement option, exterior geometry, and eight non-structural facade studies.

House Plans Desk15 min read

Cottage Exterior Renovation: 10 Concepts with Cost Ranges

A cottage this size is the cheapest house in the world to get wrong and the most rewarding to get right. Ten house exterior renovations later it is ten different houses — and the point of putting them side by side is that the footprint never moved.

Renovations & Interiors Desk23 min read

Duplex Exterior Renovation: 10 Curb-Appeal Directions

You are dressing two front doors, two garage bays, and a shared party wall as if they were one deliberate building — and the moment the massing reads as "two units stapled together," the curb appeal collapses.

Renovations & Interiors Desk13 min read