backyard cottage blog

Our newest new small house plan the Atom. The idea for the atom cottage comes from a 1940's prefab house built by the U.S. Government as...

At Microhouse we have years of experience designing rain gardens and other water retention systems. Whenever possible we incorporate rain ga...

Microhouse will make a virtual appearance at the West Seattle Summer Fest along with our building partners Ncompass Cottage Company.   In co...

Are you interested in renting a backyard cottage or do yo have an existing cottage that you would like to rent?  We have both potential tena...

We have been working with Puget Sound Solar on the Microhouse Eco Cottage. For the 800 sq. ft. cottage we estimate that with a 3 Watt syste...

Do you need help legalizing an existing backyard cottage built without a permit? We helped Lars and Denise to legalize their cottage origina...

Microhouse will make a virtual appearance at the Seattle Green Festival June 5th and 6th. We try to keep a low overhead here so we won't...