Backroad Home & Outbuilding Plans  Find plans for your new small country home. Select from cabins, cottages, barn homes, rental and camp cabins and garage apartments by some of America's best known country designers. You'll also find a wide assortment of plans for complementing country outbuildings: small barns, pole-barns, country garages, sheds, horse barns, tractor shelters and more.

COOL Small Home Plans  COOL House Plan Company is a blueprint superstore with over 12,000 designs by 100 different architects and designers. Along with their big contemporary homes, you'll find dozens of traditional small country cottages and cabins. 

Do It Yourself Cottage Building Plans  PlansNOW.com has step-by-step building plans for this 10'x14' cottage with a screened porch. Their concise plans and material cut lists make this almost as easy to build as a kit. Use this cottage as a guest room, garden shed, pool house or little getaway in the country. The plans are downloadable, so you can get started today. 

Design Your Own Small Home  Plan3D is an online service that helps you create a home (or garage, barn, shed or room extension), landscape it and lay out furniture. View your work from any angle - inside and out. Use Plan3D to create a new kitchen or extension to your old home or to design a new garage or shed. Everything is online and inexpensive, so you can get started today.

Prosperity Plans: How to Create a Low-Cost Small Home That Can Grow Over Time  This new book is a complete reprint of the 1935 booklet, Farmhouse Plans, by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, with forty small "Growing Houses" house designs, in a twenty-first century edition with Internet sources of working drawings and construction details.

The Tiny House Blog  The most effective way to save on home construction cost, on the expense of heating and cooling a home and on torture by the tax collector is to build the smallest house that you can be comfortable in. Check out Kent Griswold's Tiny House Blog for ideas and some of the smallest and simplest home designs you'll ever find.

CountryPlans.com  Master builder John Raabe's plans and tools for designing and building cabins, cottages and small homes. Free, downloadable study plans of a Solar Saltbox Farmhouse and an EcoCottage are packed with good ideas.  Raabe's SolarSunKit is a step-by-step guide for planning your property to take best advantage of the sun's energy.

Tumbleweed Tiny House Company  Prefab houses and building plans for seriously small homes. Small houses mean fewer emissions, less construction waste, less fuel consumption and more green space.