Modern homes you can actually build. House plans & prefab kits.
Skip the expensive year-long custom design process. Pick a DEN design, customize it with our team, then build it with your local contractor — or order a complete Prefab Kit, engineered and delivered ready to assemble.
Custom-designing a house plan costs $20K+ and takes a year before you can break ground. We've already done that work — refined across 300+ real builds — so you can buy a proven design, customize it with our team, and build it with a contractor you trust. Or skip the framing entirely with a Prefab Kit: engineered, fabricated, and delivered to your site.
How it works →Three steps from design to dream home.
The way most of our customers do it: pick a design they love, customize it with our team, then build it with a local contractor.
Confirm feasibility before you commit.
Every DEN project starts with the $999 Feasibility Package. We review your land, draft a preliminary site plan, deliver a turnkey project pricing estimate, and meet for a 60-minute working session — so you know exactly what's possible before spending more. Your full $999 credits forward to whatever you build next.
Start with Feasibility →Choose your design and your path.
With clarity in hand, pick a design from our 40+ modern cabins and homes — and decide how you want to build. Hand the plans to your local contractor with a $1,999 Building Package, or order a complete Prefab Kit engineered and delivered to your site. Your $999 credits forward to either path.
Build with confidence.
Hand DEN's plans to your local builder — or skip the framing entirely and order a DEN Prefab Kit: engineered, fabricated, and delivered to your site, with shell assembly in 5–15 days. Either path comes with construction documents, materials lists, and a Build Advisor on call. Most DEN homes finish in under a year — half the time of a traditional custom build.
What you walk away with
- Construction documents & CAD files
- License to build
- Materials list & buying guide
- Optional Engineered Prefab Kit
- Local builder partner vetting
- Build Advisor on call
Modern house plans built around real budgets.
A-frame house plans, cabin plans, barnhouse plans, ADU plans, and sauna plans — every design shaped by real builds, real timelines, and real construction constraints.
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Modern Alpine Medium
from $299.00 -
Outpost Plus 2026
from $299.00 -
Modern Treehouse
from $299.00 -
Modern Alpine Family
from $299.00 -
Modern Alpine 2025
from $299.00 -
Outpost Plus
from $299.00 -
L Barnhouse
from $299.00 -
Ascent ADU
from $299.00 -
Outpost Medium
from $299.00 -
Studio House
from $299.00 -
Barnhouse 2.2
from $299.00 -
Barnhouse 3.3
from $299.00
Matt & Sarah bought a DEN design. Their builder handled the rest.
From picking the Alpine 2.2 plan online to handing the keys to their family in 7 months — the full process, start to finish.
Know what your build will cost.
Pick a DEN design, share your lot details, and get an AI-calibrated build estimate based on real costs in your area — in 60 seconds, before you spend a dollar.
- Tailored to your land, zip code, and conditions
- Budget, Standard, and Premium tiers, side by side
- No sales calls. No spam. Just a real number.
Stay in a real DEN.
Book a night in a finished DEN home before you commit to building one. See the design, feel the space, and talk to the owner — across our growing network of customer-built homes nationwide.
Book a Stay →Thousands of plans sold. Hundreds of DENs built.
I just finished my build last fall
I just finished my build last fall (I built the Barnhouse Retreat!) and had such a great experience building with my DEN plans. I cannot say enough about Mike and his team. The designs are clean, stylish and efficient and also super easy to revise during the building process. The house turned out so much better than I could have hoped for.
Couldn't love DEN more
We have been really impressed with DEN, ever since we started our first construction project in 2023 with their A-Frame 2.2 model. Since then, we have built two further DEN models and continue to be impressed with the quality of their plans and the ease of dealing with the company. Highly recommend, especially for anyone looking to build a cabin for the first time.
DEN Outdoors three project packages
DEN Outdoors three packages available provide flexible assistance for a building project. Their Planning Package, Building Package, or consideration to use the Prefab Package give great check points to validate time to complete and budget projections.
Practical process and good experience
Beautiful designs, simple, elegant, and thought through. Flexible purchase process too. We switched designs part way through and this was not an issue, because preliminary and final designs are separate. Separating this for purposes of shopping around vs final design are useful for a first time home building experience.
ALL YOU NEED IS DEN Outdoors
The plans were incredibly detailed and provided everything my builder needed. The ongoing customer service from DEN was always responsive and very helpful. The finished product is beautiful!
Mike is so thoughtful
Mike is so thoughtful and the team is a pleasure to work with. We are so excited to bring home to life with the DEN team.
Have questions? We're here.
Whether you've got a quick question or want to talk through your land and which design might fit, our team responds within one business day.
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