These Are the Most Popular Homes of January 2023

From innovative prefabs to an overhauled Airstream bus, here’s what our readers were most drawn to last month.

These Are the Most Popular Homes of January 2023

From innovative prefabs to an overhauled Airstream bus, here’s what our readers were most drawn to last month.

The materials for the prefab were chosen to help the lodge blend into the wood. According to the architects,

Consider this inspiration for creating that perfect escape in a remote corner of the world, or building a dream home on a budget. January’s most-viewed homes will give you the ideas—and hard numbers—to help make things happen.

Budget Breakdown: How a Couple Built a 480-Square-Foot Home for $68K in Cash

Madison points out that the pod concept would make it easy to add an extension if necessary.

If you’re coming from a 160-square-foot Airstream, 480 square feet is downright palatial. At least that’s how Madison and Mark Talley of Tall Architects see it. Since they moved from a camper into their self-designed, self-built space in 2017, the couple and their three-year-old son, George, have happily made the tiny house a home in Vancleave, Mississippi.

Photo by Ann Madden Photography

Blue Dot stools sit at the custom table. The sofa is from Joybird. Kitchen lighting was sourced from 143 Lighting.

Their incentive for thinking small wasn’t just about challenging the conceit that bigger is better, Madison and Mark were simply trying to keep costs down. They were able to complete the project in 2017 for $68,000 (a budget, Mark notes, that likely wouldn’t be doable in today’s economy).

Photo by Ann Madden Photography

After living with the original exterior for a while, Bryan had the shell buffed to its natural silver finish.

Bryan and Meredith Verona had such a good time driving an SUV around the southwest United States that they began what Bryan calls their "road trip series." "The trips became something that we really cherished over time," he says. So when Bryan found his dream RV–a 1989 370LE Airstream–for sale in Cleveland, Ohio, he immediately purchased it and drove it back to NYC the same night.

Photo courtesy of Glickman Schlesinger Architects

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