Construction Diary: Design and ideas for modern homes & living Construction Diary Articles How a Chocolate Bar Inspired This Austin Architect’s Hill Country Home How a Music Producer Remixed His Childhood Home in Michigan The Site Was Small, So They Put the Garden on Top of the House How an Austin Architect Rebuilt Her Brick House for Three Generations of Family She Built Her Maine Home From Scratch as a Novice General Contractor They Built Their Serene Mérida Home Without Felling a Single Tree How a Tucson Couple Built a $100K ADU—and How You Can, Too How Japanese Minka Homes Inspired a Designer’s Coastal Cabin in Maine They Lived in a Yurt for Six Years as They DIYed Their $708K Home A Designer Builds Her First House for $659K—on a Fully Forested Portland Hillside Siblings Team Up to Build a Hudson Valley Dream Home How a Growing Austin Family Artfully Expanded a Habitat for Humanity Home He Hand-Built a High-Design Surf Shack in Uruguay How Two Artists Turned a Cabin Outside Joshua Tree Into a Clear-Minded Retreat This Coastal Cabin Renovation Is a Master Class in Craftsmanship She Envisioned a Dome Home—Then Made It a Reality Outside Joshua Tree This $250K Prefab Cabin Is an Ode to the Finnish Sauna How a California Designer Crafted His New Family Home—On Top of Their First Home A Couple Pining for Their Woodsy Upbringings Experiment With a Retreat in the Pacific Northwest With $293K, Two Designers Make a Rhode Island Victorian Their Own 650 Square Feet Is Perfect for an Italian Couple and Their Three Cats An Architect’s Home Overflows With Greenery—With No White Walls in Sight An Irish Architect’s Passive House Shows the Strength of Cross-Laminated Timber In Chile, a Much-Needed Addition Feels a Part of the Landscape In Los Angeles, a Couple Create a Multigenerational Haven An Architect Relies on Memory to Rebuild His Childhood Home How a Bay Area Couple Rebuilt Their California Ranch Home From the Ground Up In West Texas, an Adobe House Gets a Donald Judd–Inspired Revamp At Sea Ranch, a Couple Build a “Forever Moving” Home Made to Change With Them Two Friends Dream Up a Cabin-Like Home on a Tricky Lot Split by a Stream After a Devastating Fire, a Couple Start Over With a $17K DIY Cabin In the Mojave Desert, a First-Time Builder Takes On a Tricky Prefab Home It Took a Decade, But Their Experimental, DIY Home Was Worth the Wait A Maine Designer Builds His Family’s Home Completely by Hand This Architect’s “Fugly” Beach House Has the Most Exquisitely Crafted Kitchen The Founder of a Cabin Rental Company Builds a Fire Island Retreat of His Own