Holy Moly Batman…a house that powers itself, composts its own waste, collects its own water, and is completely automatic doing all of these things. When can I get one? Maybe if it is ever made I can get on the list, but for now, the zeroHouse looks to be just a great idea. The solar [...]
Looking for a cool and simple home office you can put out back? This might be the thing for you. The K3 from kitHAUS ships flat to your door and you can assemble it in 2 days. At 117 square feet, it won’t fit your family of 4, but it will provide a great office [...]
Founded in 2004 in San Francisco, California, Modern Cabana is a private, family-owned business that provides its clients with designer, pre-fabricated accessory structures of the highest quality and design integrity. Its flagship solution, The Cabana, is a testament to the fact that modern, green design is compatible with affordability, ease of installation and, of course, [...]
Did you know IKEA did housing? Me neither! The iconic home furnishing store has gone into the prefab housing business with the property company Live Smart@Home and construction firm Skanska, and have come up with some tremendous ideas. The BoKlok houses are built in a factory and delivered on site, where they can take only [...]
I have written before about the Marmol Radziner prefab houses, but I came across this video of the inside of their factory and thought you prefab junkies would find it pretty interesting…
I had written before about Greg La Vardera and LamiDesign back in August, when I mentioned his 6040 House. But I wanted to mention a new project being built in Austin, TX – the Porch House, a two-story 2,100 square foot home usually designated as a vacation or weekend house. And although that may be [...]
This week’s prefab house is the Jeriko House, an aluminum-framed prefab that is easily assembled on site in as little as 5 months. That supposedly includes design planning time as well, so the actual construction must be pretty short. Because it is made from aluminum formed into precision shaped ‘profiles’ offering the approximate strength of [...]
