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A Desert Prefab Demo from Nottoscale

An artist’s retreat in the desert offers an opportunity for Nottoscale to demonstrate its prefab housing.

Because the site was so isolated, the only way to put a house here was to ship it completely built as a prefab.

Far from roads or hardware stores, the construction served as a prototype for the company.

The isolated prefabricated dwelling is used as an simple retreat for an artist and includes a guest bedroom.

Despite the compact floor plan, each of the bedrooms offer small computer workspaces.

The concrete-framed wooden deck almost doubles the living space and includes a built-in hot tub.

Sunlight floods the cheerful space with its chic and comfortable furnishing.

An IKEA-like uncluttered design sensibility in the furniture choices and color palette makes a simple and joyful.

Two identical bathrooms are clad in tiny green tiles.

The retreat offers a restful vacation spot set in expansive desert views that stretch to the horizon.

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Tiny Casa Kolonihagen Pops Out a Bedroom

What you see is what you get in this teeny house  by Tommie Wilhelmsen.

The compact cabin is in Stavanger, Norway.

A glance through the big window as you approach reveals the main space is a living room.

Popped out next to the big window is a high-up sleeping alcove, accessed via a small stepladder.

Once up there, the space is just right, reduced to the basic need for sleep.

An intriguing gap in the darkest shadows offers a view through to other neighbouring houses.

As you enter through this central gap, you turn left into the space.

Cosy conversational seating in the living room is built into another alcove but is low to the ground.

The space of the sleeping alcove appears to expand the small living room, even as it is separate.

By contrast with the pristine white interior, the exterior is richly stained panelling and plywood.

At the far end of the cabin is a bench-style “kitchen” of sorts.

This rudimentary workspace is intended just to wash glasses and to prepare fruit from the garden.

The cabin in the garden provides a place to host friends.

The garden cabin is designed to accommodate a guest – but also to serve as a base where friends can gather.

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A Quiet Retreat on Puget Sound

The Case Inlet Retreat is the utmost in simplicity and tranquility for a couple with a young child.

The contemporary vacation home is located along the eastern edge of the Case Inlet, in southern Puget Sound in Washington state.

Architects Seattle-based studio MW Works Architecture+Design have created a simple vacation home that perfectly sits in the introspective scenery.

This is a small house that packs a punch.

What appears to be an outdoor shower clad in untreated wood is just outside the bedroom.

In fact a sliding door can seal the “outdoor shower” closed – or open to bring in fresh air as desired.

Cedar boards keep the floor dry for a sauna feeling.

Simple unpretentious faucets are used in both the shower and the the bath.

The same wood is used outside, paired with rusting Corten steel panels.

The house is nestled within a forest glade.

Its quiet views are echoed in the restrained material palette.

A wood burning stove keeps the small family retreat toasty on cold winter nights.

Polished concrete floors throughout are paired with the floor to ceiling glazing that connects to nature.

Outdoor stairs cut through the Corten steel for a direct route to the rooftop deck.

An early lesson in good design.