This week’s prefab is the m-house, a design by Tim Pyne. Based in the UK, it is not available here in the United States, but I sure wish it was. The house is over 1000 square feet and is delivered to your site in 2 pieces and then assembled. Costing £147,500 (about $297,000) the house [...]
I am feeling really under the weather this week and instead of trying to go and research the next prefab house for this Wednesday’s edition, I thought I would take a moment to answer a reader’s question as to why I write a weekly post about prefab housing. Here is the question: “I have been [...]
Made from recycled shipping containers, these Quik Houses are definitely a pure example of prefab housing…after all, they were built a while ago and can be delivered in their final form. The Quik House has three bedrooms and two and one-half baths in its 2,000 square foot plan. Made out of 6 shipping containers, the [...]
From my home state of Massachusetts, comes this green prefab house from Noble Home. The Noble Home is a house kit that gets shipped to your building site and contains all the parts needed to build a finished house shell on your foundation. OK, sold so far! So how much would a house like this [...]
From passive solar design, sustainably harvested wood and full construction in about a week, the JoT house makes for a great prefab house. The JoT house can be built for as little as $100 per square foot, so for the 1500 square foot house, you are looking at $150,000…Not bad in the world of prefab! [...]
Oooh I think I found a good one here…the PLACE houses by Heather Johnston are beautiful modern prefab kits built in a factory to exacting specifications…and can be delivered anywhere! To make things simple, these houses are available in four sizes: tiny, small, medium and large. Easy enough, huh? The medium size house is 2,531 [...]
A two bedroom prefab for $109,000? Sounds interesting. Except for the foundation, fitting and seaming of the house after arrival, and utility hookups, these weeHouses from Alchemy Architects come ready to live in. Very cool! The base models include: windows and patio doors, Container siding (cement fiberboard with vertical battens), EPDM cold roof, tongue and [...]
