When Brian and Jess Johnson drove to Taos, New Mexico, for a getaway weekend from Colorado in 2016, they had no inkling the trip would change their lives and their notions of a dream house in a ...

When Lynn and O’Neal Gray were looking for somewhere to retire, the Dallas-based couple settled on a 500-acre plot in California‘s Paso Robles wine region on the coast of Central California about half ...

This 30sqm tiny home proves that off-grid living doesn’t have to mean discomfort. Built from transformed shipping containers, the design focuses on flexibility, efficiency, and smart interiors.

In 2020, there was a spike in searches for off-grid homes and a general trend of moving to rural areas. Rural housing applications spiked by 80% during the pandemic, according to Fannie Mae. Overall, ...

When she was 30 years old, Karen Rathburn’s father gifted her a remote piece of land in Lone Pine, California—located between the Sequoia and Death Valley National Parks. The rocky acreage was once ...

When Henry David Thoreau famously retreated to a tiny cabin in Massachusetts’s Walden Pond in 1845, it was because he wanted to live simply and “deliberately” in search of what he called “essential ...