Considering building your own custom-made house? Here are eight examples of successful residential self-build projects from the Dezeen archives to get your creative juices flowing. More about Seven self-build housing projects to inspire your own
Architect Joe Burke has self-built Leyton House, a home that bookends a 1960s terrace in London, using rough, pale brickwork and a concrete plinth for tactility. More about Joe Burke bookends 1960s London terrace with compact brick home
Novice self-builders are gaining large followings sharing their cabin construction successes and failures on TikTok. Amy Peacock explores the implications for professional architecture. More about Could the next starchitect be a TikToker?
Polycarbonate panels clad the exterior of this triangular treehouse in Switzerland's Locarno district, which was designed by Swiss architect Olin Petzold as a woodland writing studio. More about Olin Petzold nestles self-built treehouse in Swiss valley
Czech studio Ika Architekti used second-hand and scavenged materials to create this self-built sauna in Brno, which stands on railway sleepers and is clad in corrugated fibreglass panels. More about Ika Architekti uses salvaged materials for Upcycled Sauna in Czech Republic
A green-patinated copper shell topped with solar panels forms this "habitable power station" in Oxford, designed by local studio Adrian James Architects. More about Adrian James Architects wraps Copper Bottom house in origami-like shell
A co-founder of the firm Design, Bitches and her architect husband have completed the latest iteration of their family home in California, which features ample daylight and the "feeling of being in the trees". More about Architect couple creates Atwater House in Los Angeles over two decades
A blocky form animated by hit-and-miss brickwork defines Peckham House, a self-build project by architecture studio Surman Weston that draws on its surroundings in southeast London. More about Surman Weston self-builds "characterful family home" with three gardens in London
Dutch architecture office Studio Prototype has built a house with a hexagonal footprint in an area of Amsterdam with relaxed planning regulations. More about Studio Prototype completes Edge House in experimental Amsterdam neighbourhood
The founders of local architecture studio Only If have completed a multi-storey, slender house for themselves that is meant to represent the potential for "architectural invention in constrained, residual urban spaces". More about Only If designs Narrow House for extra-skinny lot in Brooklyn
Architecture studio Polysmiths used cork panels to clad internal and external surfaces at Cork House in east London, which was built using materials available during the Covid-19 lockdown. More about Polysmiths designs "beautifully sustainable" London house featuring cork-lined living spaces
Danish architect and developer Tommy Rand has built a house for himself and his family in Denmark, featuring a spiral staircase made from 630 pieces of CNC-cut plywood. More about Tommy Rand's self-build house features a CNC-cut spiral staircase
The final video tour published in collaboration with this year's Open House London festival spotlights Walters Way, a collection of 13 adaptable houses in Lewisham that were self-built by their owners with the help of architect Walter Segal. More about Walters Way houses can be easily adapted to their owner's needs
Architecture studio Morris + Company has designed an extension for the self-built home of Walter Segal in north London that is "a direct homage" to the architect's body of work. More about Morris + Company to extend Walter Segal's former London home
In the second part of our VDF collaboration with film-makers Laura Mark and Jim Stephenson, we screen the first episode of the duo's Practice series, in which architect Piers Taylor of Invisible Studio explains why he built his own house in the woods. More about Invisible Studio "started as a voyage of self-build discovery" says Piers Taylor in film for VDF
Modular, plywood boxes have been self-built by climate change protesters Extinction Rebellion to build lock-on sites, towers and stages for London protests. More about Modular boxes used by Extinction Rebellion are "protest architecture"
Slatted screens of stained black wood surround the first-floor extension of an 1830s Georgian cottage in Essex, designed by Studio Bark but built largely by the clients themselves. More about Studio Bark's first flat-pack U-build system used for a home extension in Essex
U-Build is a simple modular construction system designed by Studio Bark, which encourages individuals and communities to self-build. More about Studio Bark's flat-pack U-Build system lets anyone self-build
The latest movie in our Dezeen x MINI Living series explores architect Maria Vergopoulou's concept for self-build micro homes made of bioplastic, which came third in the Dezeen x MINI Living Future Urban Home Competition. More about Cocoon BioFloss would enable people to grow their own micro homes
Seattle architecture firm MW Works has helped a couple to self-build this home, which is organised around a courtyard and clad in weathered reclaimed timber. More about Courtyard provides focal point for Seattle home by MW Works