backyard cottage blog

A backyard cottage can be used for many things, a home office, housing an aging family member, and as an investment strategy generating rent...

We are seeing people around us cutting back and slowing down. There is  a growing trend to downsize and simplify lifestyles.  Partially, t...

A nice story about microhouse and backyard cottages (detached accessory dwelling units) is featured in the Highline Times. It features an in...

Design has started on Microhouse's newest backyard cottage in Magnolia.  Our clients are looking  to use some of the equity in their ho...

Microhouse small house plans and design services will soon be available nationally through houseplans.com. Microhouse will be one of the fea...

Here is a photo of a small rain garden designed by Landscape Architect Vinita Sidhu nearing completion Ballard. The garden is designed...

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...