Over 1,000 years ago, the Mongols used yurts as mobile shelter. Nowadays, folks buy prefab yurts and use them to set up camp or as a permanent place of residence—and business is booming. “We are ...

Recently, I met a couple at a cafe who had just spent the first night at their vacation getaway on a rural mountaintop in Sonoma County. It turned out that though they owned the land, they had neither ...

The first thing you notice about the yurt is its sturdy construction. With 2″ fiberglass insulation in the walls and 2″ polyiso foam in the roof, the cabins stay warm despite the cold weather snap ...

Meet Whitney & Trent, a couple living in an off-grid yurt home in the Mojave Desert. They built a 30' diameter yurt with a ...

Whitney and Trent built an off-grid yurt homestead for $60,000, which includes both their small home and the land. The ...

We’ve featured yurts from Mandala Homes here on Inhabitat before, and their latest creation has raised the bar to new heights. Prefabricated in B.C., Canada, Mandala Homes’ “fancy yurts” are shipped ...

Somewhere between a tent and a hut lies a curious little structure known by a single ungainly syllable: yurt. A yurt–also known as a ger, if that sounds any better–is a small, round, roofed structure ...

One university student has found cozy and cheap housing in B.C. in the form of a yurt — a Mongolian-style tent that he built himself last summer. Michael Jeffery says the spacious tent is the perfect ...

It’s the kind of structure you might see in the pages of a storybook, a squat, wooden structure with rounded walls and a crooked door, topped with a dusting of snow. The building is a yurt, a classic ...