At Lindal, we’re always finding new ways to express the best in modern residential style. Our approach to contemporary homes includes clean lines and lower-pitched roof profiles.
A Wide Selection of Modern House Plans
We have hundreds of ultra modern house plans to choose from. Our contemporary home designs include architect designed offerings, mid-century modern homes with clean lines and butterfly roofs, one-level ranch homes, our Frank Lloyd Wright-inspired home line, and farmhouse styles with a modern feel. Our modern house plans offer popular features such as master bedrooms with an en-suite bathroom, accessory dwelling units above the garage, and open floor plans with space-filled great rooms and walls of glass to let the outside in.
Modify any Modern Home Style
Our designs offer great flexibility in terms of square footage, size, and price. We can help you build a small home on a narrow urban infill lot or a large home on a multi-acre property with panoramic views. You may also mix and match several siding options. All Lindal Modern Homes are backed by our industry-exclusive Lifetime Structural Warranty and engineered to stand up to all manner of climate conditions. You’ll love life in your Lindal modern home.
Lindal Cedar Homes is a leader in the field of modern house plans and custom residential design. It is the only company in the industry to offer a Lifetime Structural Warranty on every Lindal home built. Lindal’s wide range of efficient designs are adaptable to a clients’ personal needs. Through the Lindal Architects Collaborative and the Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture, Lindal partners with leading architects and designers to develop and design ultra modern house plans. Lindal homes have been profiled in publications including Dwell magazine, Inhabitat, Seattle Times, Forbes, the Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal. Working with your independent Lindal representative ensures that you receive personal, hands-on attention through every stage of the process, from design through completion of your contemporary house.
Cedar Contemporary Homes
Cedar is in our name, and it’s one of the materials we work with most (we also offer many other options for siding, interiors, etc.). Cedar has some unique qualities that make it an ideal building material for both classic and contemporary homes. Read more about the benefits of building with cedar >>
5 Modern House Styles You Will Love
These ‘Kit Homes’ Stand Out With Unusual Details
From Truly Tiny Backyard Cottages to a Stunning Mansion with Walls of Glass and a Butterfly Roof
In 2009 Lindal Cedar Homes expanded its design range with a new line of modern home designs. These luxury kit homes are built from premium materials and pre-cut at Lindal’s factory. The components are then loaded into containers and delivered to build sites across North America. The post-and-beam structure allows for open floor plans, high ceilings, and walls of glass with panoramic views. Take a look at these five contemporary homes, each with its own unique style.
1. A Pre-Cut, Energy-Efficient Cedar Home
The Seafoam is a 2,000 square-foot design created by joining five simple elements.
Walls of glass provide sweeping views of the forest, lake, and nearby mountain range.
On the main level, the open floor plan includes zones for eating, cooking, and relaxing.
The master bedroom is housed in a loft on the second floor. A glass railing looks down over the lower communal areas and keeps the upstairs airy and light. See more images, information, and the floor plans.
This house is featured on the cover and in the book “Prefabulous Small Houses,” published by Taunton Press and written by Sheri Koones.
2. Butterfly Roof House with Private Apartment
This elegant modern home packs more into its 2,500 square feet than you’d expect. The butterfly roof, with its opposite-sloped pitches, adds light, loft, and a mid-century-modern vibe. The view side of the home features glass doors opening to the outside on both floors and a row of clerestory windows on the main floor for additional light penetration.
The 484 square foot, self-contained studio above the garage has a separate entrance and glass-railed deck. It can be used as a rental space, guest apartment, or for multigenerational living. See more images, information, and the floor plans.
This contemporary home, located at the base of a ski run in Crested Butte, Colorado, is the perfect getaway for a family of winter sports enthusiasts.
Built with pre-weathered siding and reclaimed wood elements, it’s a customized, expanded version of one of Lindal’s most popular modern home designs: The Cedar 1148.
The living room offers a sweeping view of the mountains.
A sleeping loft easily accommodates guests.
Wouldn’t you love to have this view from your kitchen window?
Cities across the U.S. are easing restrictions on accessory dwelling units (ADUs), allowing homeowners to construct backyard cottages. Lindal’s prefab building system is ideally suited to these efficient units, which can start at under 500 square feet. These cute side-by-side studios in Berkshire, Mass., were built as writer’s retreats.
The kitchen and living room are located in one of the studios. Clerestory windows wrap around the structure, filling it with natural sunlight.
This stunning luxury home by Turkel Design for Lindal celebrates the marriage of form and function in contemporary home designs.
The inclined butterfly roof provides shade and shelter, channels out unwanted hot air and collects its own rainwater. The roof’s slope enhances the modern aesthetic of this architect-designed home.
A massive sliding door ‘disappears’ into the wall; blurring the line between indoor and outdoor living.
Sheri Koones Features Lindal in Books on Prefab Floor Plans and Home Designs
A Lindal Elements home on British Columbia’s sunshine coast graces the cover of Sheri Koones’ new book, Prefabulous Small Houses, published by Taunton Press (September 2016). Koones chose the modern prefab home because of its attractive contemporary style, energy-efficient features, and modest size — just over 2,000 square feet.
Q&A on the Modern Prefab Home with Sheri Koones
LCH: Why prefab?
Koones: Prefab construction is the future of home construction for all the obvious reasons. It saves time, money and is more predictable. You already know in advance what you’re going to get; there are no surprises, no delays because of weather and extremes in temperature.. Prefab houses are built more efficiently and with less waste. Today, about 5% of new homes are prefabricated. There’s a growing interest in prefab, although a bias still exists, thinking of prefab as doublewides. Many people also still think of prefabs as just modular construction, although there are many ways to construct prefab houses, such as Lindal’s method. I’ve been writing about prefab construction for a long time. My books have evolved over the years to focus more and more on energy efficiency and smaller homes. Smaller is greener; with less waste, and recycling of much of the material site builders throw in dumpsters. With prefab, you’re saving materials as well as energy. In general it’s a much better idea to be building prefab houses.
LCH: How has prefab evolved over the years?
The sophistication of the houses has grown from the time I wrote my first book in 2002. The original prefabs were very simple and boxy, the newer prefabs are much more interesting and efficient. As the prefab industry has become more sophisticated over time, so has the customer that is opting for a prefab home.
LCH: To what demographic does prefab appeal?
It’s a broad range, from young people and first time home buyers to empty nesters who want to downsize.
Building small houses is a very hot topic and many people are intrigued by the whole concept. Prefab also tends to be particularly popular in the Pacific Northwest, where people are very energy conscious and interested in sustainable building and living.
LCH: What are the green benefits of prefab?
Prefab houses are more environmentally friendly than houses built entirely on site. In traditional construction there’s a lot more waste, and all of the debris will go to a landfill and the homeowners will pay for all of those materials. In a factory, much of those materials will be recycled. Building green is an advantage on a personal level – adding resale value, saving money on energy, and making the house more comfortable.
LCH: What kinds of prefab homes are featured in your book?
The book profiles 32 houses and all different types of prefab: Modulars, SIPs — structural insulated panels that are fused together with rigid foam in between — panelized, unique construction, a new type of prefab concrete walls. I select the houses very carefully and only include those that are really efficient and attractive.
Lindal’s post-and-beam modern prefab homes have walls of glass and spacious interiors that reflect the easy, open style of contemporary living. Lindal partners with American Forests’ Global ReLeaf program to plant 25 trees for every home built.
Lindal homes are featured in several of Koones’ previous books:
Koones wrote about the Green Retreat house in “Prefabulous + Almost Off The Grid”, 2012 (pictured above). It was the first green-certified home ever built in Washington State.
The Far Horizon Reflection Home (pictured below) in Koones’ 2007 book, “Prefabulous”, was designed for Lindal by renowned Pacific Northwest architect Jim Cutler. Cutler also designed the 66,000 square-foot estate of Microsoft founder Bill Gates in Medina, Wash.
The images and floor plans in our home design books are a great way to get ideas and start planning your new custom dream home. Best of all, we can modify any Lindal house plan to suit your build site and lifestyle.
Walls of glass provide sweeping views of the forest, lake, and nearby mountain range.
On the main level, the open floor plan includes zones for eating, cooking, and relaxing.
The 484 square foot, self-contained studio above the garage has a separate entrance and glass-railed deck. It can be used as a rental space, guest apartment, or for multigenerational living. See 
Built with pre-weathered siding and reclaimed wood elements, it’s a customized, expanded version of one of Lindal’s most popular modern home designs: The Cedar 1148.
A sleeping loft easily accommodates guests.
Wouldn’t you love to have this view from your kitchen window?
The kitchen and living room are located in one of the studios. Clerestory windows wrap around the structure, filling it with natural sunlight.
The second studio contains the sleeping quarters and a working desk with a picturesque view of the rolling hills beyond. See 
A massive sliding door ‘disappears’ into the wall; blurring the line between indoor and outdoor living.
Soft green couches add a welcome pop of color and whimsy to the neutral shades of the floors, walls and furnishings. See 
LCH: What are the green benefits of prefab?
