This article will show you five single-story houses, some very small, others with more original shapes, but all accompanied by their respective plans and some interior images to serve as inspiration.

In fact, the house is just one story. But if the overhead space isn’t occupied, it also isn’t wasted. The twin peaks are the work of the award-winning Los Angeles architect Lawrence Scarpa.

A new single-story house fits snuggly on a shady hillside in the Fair Haven Heights section of New Haven. Steel cladding on its façade is intentionally rusted, evoking a reddish-brown sandstone ledge ...