Modern Prefabricated Homes are Brilliant
May 3rd, 2007 . by Jilly
I’ve been doing some house hunting and I came across this modern prefabricated home in Sunset Magazine. I think its really cool how they are making this house using recycled materials, you can add solar panels really easily, the living room has a wall that folds so that your room extends to the patio. Its made to have good ventilation and where they could they used recycled materials.
Then my husband showed me this prefab (in Wired magazine) called the “Loblolly House” and I thought it was just gorgeous.
Both of these houses can be taken apart and reassembled at different locations. There’s no pricing anywhere for the Loblolly house yet. But for the Sunset Breeze House it costs about $250/square foot. Which is not a bad price, but then you have to buy land. I think that puts us out of the range of being able to afford it.
I know very little about architecture and going green. But I do know that our electricity bill is expensive. If I could do things naturally and more energy efficient – I would rather do it that way. I’m excited to see what progress can be made in making homes green and to see how they can make this more affordable for us regular people.
