Category: prefab

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Prefab Wednesday – A Few Prefabs By Office Of Mobile Design.

Yet another good reason I live in Santa Monica, as one day we were down the street in Venice on Abbot Kinney Blvd. and saw this model house sitting there on a tiny little lot: Turns out it is the model of the Show House by Jennifer Siegal’s Office of Mobile Design. It was open [...]

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Is Shedworking The Solution To Working At Home?

Today’s guest post is from Alex Johnson, who is the publishing editor of The Shed magazine for people who work in sheds and shedlike atmospheres and also produces the daily-updated Shedworking site. His book, Shedworking, will be published by The Friday Project in July 2008.’ Alex’s Shed Shedworking as a term is probably new to [...]

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Prefab Wednesday – The LV Series By Rocio Romero.

Affordable? Check. Cool? Check. Approved by the wife? Not so much, at least not yet. But Rocio Romero is on to something here with the LV series of prefab homes: 1150 sq. ft, living room, dining room, kitchen, 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, and closets all for $33,923. Now that is affordable prefab housing! A lot [...]

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Prefab Wednesday – LivingHomes By Ray Kappe

Oh sometimes I really know just how lucky I am that I live in Santa Monica. Ever since we saw that this house was being built just a short ways from here, we have driven by it a bunch of times to marvel at it. This house is beautiful if nothing else at all…This first [...]

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Prefab Wednesday – 6040 House By Gregory La Vardera.

The 6040 House is a design by Gergory La Vardera of LaMiDesign based in Merchantville, NJ. I have been a fan of Mr. La Vardera’s work for a while now ever since I came across his design “The Plat House” about a year ago. But these new designs, being built by Northern Steel International, are [...]

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Prefab Wednesday-The Breezehouse By MKD Architecture.

I have to be honest…Michelle Kaufmann’s first prefab design, the Glidehouse, was initially my favorite of all prefab houses on the market. I had never seen something that felt so much like a modern healthy home before and we fell in love with it immediately. We went up to San Francisco to see the Glidehouse [...]

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Building A Pre-Fab House Can Cut Construction Waste By 90%.

I often contemplate buying land somewhere and building my own house. It would be real nice to raise kids somewhere that I have room to breathe and run around. I don’t know where or when, but that is my goal in life. I would like several acres to play with and grow my own food. [...]