Maine design firm BrightBuilt Home offers 20 modular templates that emphasize year-round energy savings. Solar panels facing the sunniest part of the home help heat its water and charge its ...

Rebecca Brill is a writer whose essays have appeared in The Paris Review Daily, VICE, Literary Hub, and elsewhere. She runs the Susan Sontag's Diary and the Sylvia Plath's Food Diary accounts on ...

Many homeowners are surprised to learn that most solar systems stop working during an outage — even on sunny days. That’s why many people add a backup generator (or solar batteries) to make sure their ...

Plant Prefab has unveiled three models in its new Passive House LivingHomes line starting at $586,300. The homes have at least three bedrooms and smart home features using Amazon's Alexa. Plant Prefab ...

A prefab, or prefabricated, home is often an affordable alternative to a traditionally constructed home. See what experts have to say about this type of home. ucpage / Getty Images You’ve heard of ...

Folks, we're living in a beautiful age that yields all kinds of designs to make human life more simple and carefree. One such design comes in the shape of a 100% self-sustaining and off-grid prefab ...