Many of our readers have commented lately that some of the recent prefab, modular, and kit housing projects that we have written about do not address real living - whether in the context of lifestyle, environment, or price. This week’s Prefab Friday is dedicated to you; your concerns are not lost on our ears! We [...]

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” We were appointed to design this new sustainable living quarter following success in a competition sponsored by The New Deal for Communities, New Cross Gate. The brief was to provide health, educational, community, creative and performing arts facilities together with a new public square and housing.The winning scheme proposes 76 residential units surrounding a [...]

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I finally got a chance to tour the new Boulder Hill Condos off Boulder Hill Pass - down behind the shopping Center at the Rt. 25 Entrance. These apartment buildings are being converted to condos as they are sold. Prices start at $75,900 for a one bedroom unit and go up to $120,900 for a [...]

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Brocky Proxmire wrote us about the bedroom his mother, interior designer Kelley Proxmire, designed for the DC Design House. It’s stunning, so elegant and sophisticated, and had a special feature: “The big hit of the room was the now you watch it (#7) now you don’t (#8) TV. The TV is mounted on a swing [...]

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Made from bent plywood, the Bookseat is a sleek piece of furniture which is also a storage solution; you guessed it, the perfect solution for small houses and compact living spaces.
Available with a felt cushion in customizable colors, the Bookseat is a simple bookcase that playfully curves and becomes a seat; another great example of [...]

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Structural insulated panels (SIPs) or sip panels, for short are high performance building panels used in floors, walls, and roofs for residential and light commercial buildings. EcoSip is aiming to revamp the green building industry with their prefab outer walls.
Sip panels are made like a sandwich composed of two sheets of oriented strand board, plus [...]

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Prefab cabins by CabanaVillage are customizable cabins. These prefabs are constructed with cedar or maintenance-free siding, and cedar doors, windows and trim. All prefab cabins come standard with 1/2? plywood roof sheathing and 2×4 SPF framing.
The compact 12 x 12 prefab cabin has an 8 x 12 enclosed space, and is considered to be under [...]

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