The idea of a small, well-planned ... “Don’t plan a big house — plan a big life!” One of the smartest examples of practicality influencing design is a staircase in the Sismours ...

"Inherently, a small building is green because it's using less materials," Wisniewski says. "If you are going to design a big house, then you should make it green." Wisniewski has seen people ...

With only a small sitting-dining room ... ‘You don’t need a big house to have fun with the design. The drama of these tiny ...

“I didn’t want a big house,” she says ... making smart layout edits and bold design moves to match. One of the surprises of the renovation? In addition to knocking down walls, they ...

Mitchell, who lives in Charlotte, N.C., is just putting the finishing touches on a house based on a Shafer design ... small houses. Lots of impediments keep the small movement from getting, well, big.

These spacious homes on small plots of land in the suburbs ... A McMansion is a huge and sometimes ostentatious mass-produced house. Not all big homes are McMansions. The big house trend continues ...

“But I didn’t want a big house, because it’s just the two of us,” said Ms. Lanteri, 44, the founder of the Washington interior design studio Nicole Lanteri Design. “So that was the ...