Cottage on stilts

If you’ve set up home on a lake, chances are you're there because you love to be outside. Your days are most likely spent outdoors, so you don't need much as far as a house goes: a place to lay your head, cook dinner, and seek refuge when the weather takes a turn. Amenities are nice, but when you already have so much at your doorstep, they take a backseat. It’s no wonder, then, that there are so many incredible lake houses with small footprints. We wouldn't mind heading off to any one of…

This is the final complete build by Christine of Plum Construction, although she's working on another project! LaLa's Seaesta is a gorgeous black little house in Galveston, Texas just a couple blocks from the beach. While

architect jan tyrpekl builds this zen house in austria with a compact timber structure elevated among the trees on stilts.

Ceramicist Raina Lee and partner architect Mark Watanabe have turned a stilted shed in their Los Angeles backyard into a showroom for her pottery.

This cozy cottage on stilts may be small on space, but it’s big on style. This award-winning cabin design by Andersson Wise Architects is warm, woody and

perched on a rock ledge on the hillside of asberget, sweden, the south loft is a snug wooden gateway cabin.

Whitten Architects clad this Maine retreat with Eastern cedar and placed it on stilts so that the single-storey structure would seem like a treehouse.

Not far from the wood-planked boardwalk of Bethany Beach, Delaware, a charming vacation home of a young, active family is ready to give you a tour!

From bungalows built for two to spacious beachside retreats, we've gathered your all-time favorite coastal house plans.

Explore the Skigard Hytte by Mork-Ulnes Architects, a stunning mountain retreat in Kvitfjell, Norway, that seamlessly blends traditional Norwegian elements with modern design. Elevated on 45 wooden columns, the cabin is both an architectural marvel and an ecological statement, respecting the native landscape it inhabits.