Modular Homes, Prefab Homes and Kits Homes

With there being literally 1000′s of different modular home designs from well over 150 different modular home manufacturers on the market today it can be almost impossible to compare two different modular home manufacturers properly -  side by side in a true features and benefits comparison. This post explores some of the comparison criteria that [...]

Minimal Use of Skilled Resources Following on from our previous post about the the convergence of advantages of constructing a modular home this post explores how building a modular home supports the minimal use of valuable resources. Resources have always been finite and so naturally as thier availability  declines it is expected that costs associated [...]

Modular Home construction increased by almost 48% between 1992 and 2002 – An obvious question is why ? What events led to this explosive growth in popularity ? This is a series of posts designed to explore the factors influencing the rapid growth of the Modular Home Industry today. The housing market is an extremely [...]

Generally people first considering a Modular Home will begin their journey either by reviewing a specific home design that they have seen that that they like, or by starting at the other end of the process identifying a particular “Manufacturer” of Modular Homes and review their portfolio of designs looking for a design that may [...]

Prefab versus Modular Homes The terms ‘pre-fab homes’ and ‘modular homes’ are the cause of some confusion  – what exactly do they mean ? What’s the Difference? Prefab versus Modular Homes When talking about prefab versus modular homes, it’s not always an easy case of either/or. Both have the advantage of having the main home [...]

Jeriko House Jeriko House is a company that provides a proprietary aluminum modular building platform system similar to what is traditionally called a ‘kit-of-parts’ building system. Founded by Shawn Burst in Louisiana Jeriko House designs and manufactures modern prefabricated modular homes intended to provide a versatile, consumer focused, environmentally friendly and easy to assemble prefab [...]

Modular Interchangeable Adaptable House Loq-kit is a proposed system of mass-produced interchangeable and reusable and adaptable house parts. Loq•kit was created by architect Patrick Freet in 2001 as a way to use the “components” to build affordable homes quickly assembled into many configurations. The nature of the Loq-kit adaptable housing system is that each house [...]

kitHAUS Prefab Modular Homes KitHAUS has revolutionzed the conventional rules of prefab in a way thats as innovative as it is flexiable. Tom Sandonato and Martin Wehmann – designers and co founders of KitHAUS have a total of more than 30 years experience in the design and building arena. Together they renovate home interiors, revamp [...]