Deltec Homes—the world leader in round home design—today introduced Backyard Cottages, a new line of versatile and affordable ...

Building a backyard cottage is legal, but current regulations make doing so almost as expensive as building an actual cottage. For years, the city’s attempts to ease the process for building so-called ...

Raleigh City councilors have put the kibosh on backyard cottages. For now, anyway. Councilors voted 7 to 1 to Feb. 12 to nix backyard cottages, also known as granny flats or accessory dwelling units.

Dweller is one of several West Coast startups trying to get more backyard cottages, like this one, into cities. (Dweller Image) Like many entrepreneurs, Bryan Copley had an ambitious — and slightly ...

Q: What is a backyard cottage, and why would I want to build one? A: Imagine having a private getaway or guest house tucked neatly into your own backyard. Since 2009, when the city started permitting ...

SEATTLE — Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan signed a law on Tuesday that allows for property owners to build bigger and additional backyard cottages. Backyard cottages, or mother-in-law apartments, are ...

When the city of Palo Alto passed new rules last year easing the creation of accessory dwelling units — aka granny units, in-law units or backyard cottages — a Barron Park couple was already thinking ...

Seattle would allow backyard cottages in single-family neighborhoods citywide, under a plan Mayor Greg Nickels released Thursday. "In these difficult times, now more than ever, people are asking for a ...

Backyard cottages have cleared a critical hurdle to being approved within Raleigh city limits, but some worry that the proposed rules will be too taxing for most people. The regulations, which were ...

Lawmakers in Olympia support backyard cottages for different reasons than Seattleites, but their goals are the same: To increase density in urban single family neighborhoods where the cost of housing ...

The City of Seattle could significantly pull back its regulations on secondary dwelling units on private property. RELATED: The quiet war over this regulation rages on Two of the three options ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The appeal of cottage backyard ideas are rooted in their informal charm: brimming with color, texture, fragrance, and romantic ...