Dear EarthTalk: I am looking for a small, modular home to put on a piece of vacation property. What’s available that could meet my needs and be easier on the environment than building a traditional house from scratch? First utilized by relief and aid missions around the world to house workers or refugees, self-contained modular [...]
December 2007 was the last time I wrote about prefab houses that I really liked, so I figured I would bring Prefab Wednesday back for at least today to cover the FlatPak House, which I really like. The FlatPak house is what they call a system of prefabricated components that seem to be fully interchangeable [...]
The 3rd Annual Dwell on Design Event is coming up in June at the Los Angeles Convention Center, and the magazine has been kind enough to offer free Exhibition tickets and $50 off coupons for the Conference, as well as a free 1 month digital issue to Dwell Magazine to the readers of The Good [...]
Well, that sure didn’t last long. Just 8 days after talking about not being able to find worthwhile prefab houses to cover, the new issue of Dwell shows up in the mailbox with a little story about “EcoHats” and a prefab development in London called Oxley Woods. This is a pretty big community made up [...]
This year, I have written about 26 different prefab and/or pre-designed “green” housing options. They range from the small home office/one room house to the multimillion dollar home in the middle of the desert. Because this is the last Prefab Wednesday of 2007, I wanted to take a look back through the houses covered this [...]
“The Prebuilt Mod House Range is for those who like their homes clean and crisp with a modernist edge. These finely detailed, timber clad pavilions are based on a modular system offering the ultimate in flexibility.” So says Prebuilt, who has several different kinds of prefab houses available…in Australia. The prices range from a 2 [...]
Ranging in size from the Zenkaya Studio (20.4 sq. meters) all the way up to the ZenKaya Two Bedrooms (61.2 sq. meter) units, the ZenKaya offers a couple of different options for people with varying prefab needs. Once you order whatever you need, the home can be delivered in as little as 5 weeks, depending [...]
