Modern Green “i-House”
I keep hearing that our current economic recession is going to spawn a new decade of affordable design. While the jury is still out, one can always hope. Luckily with projects like the i-House it looks like there just might an air of change in the wind. The i-House is a prototype to be manufactured by Clayton Homes, the largest builder of manufactured housing in the U.S. Sure if you look to close you can tell it’s just a single wide house with a butterfly roof stuck on top, but for $100,000 what do you expect? The interior also sports some nice Ikea cabinetry and what looks like a fairly open floor plan. With a smorgasbord of eco options available it looks like a pretty good deal. Let’s just hope that the projected pricing doesn’t get to inflated before it actually makes it to market.
Check out a virtual tour here.
Via our friends at Jetson Green
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I’ll be interested to see what actual pricing turns out to be. As we all know, modern pre-fab housing has been, in all the examples I’ve seen, priced *significantly* higher than equivalent on-site stick builds. I always laugh/groan when I read these articles about these great, modern prefab homes, then I look at the price tag: $200-$300 per sq ft and beyond.
An article on Jetson Green from last September goes into the details on why prefab is not “affordable.”
http://www.jetsongreen.com/2008/09/prefab-is-not-t.html
“Let’s just hope that the projected pricing doesn’t get to inflated before it actually makes it to market.”
Past history has shown that you shouldn’t get your hopes up.
I agree with Chris. That said, this particular prototype was less than impressive – to me, anyway. I think it was the garish color scheme that I couldn’t really get over. [And that awesome music that accompanied the virtual tour! Bow-chicka-bow-bow!] In any event, I’m certainly rooting for more affordability in the prefab market. Perhaps Clayton Homes and their i-House will be the ones to break that barrier.
“And that awesome music that accompanied the virtual tour! Bow-chicka-bow-bow!”
Heh, agreed. Total porn music. Not that I would know, of course, but I’ve been told…
If anything, perhaps we can look forward to cooler looking trailer parks in the future.
Enough with the gibberish….. When are you posting your completed kitchen! Come on man!!
The designs are amazing. The bedroom design looks simply great. Hope these are available at affordable budget.
Thanks
Kate
Hi,
Nice post. I really like this. The home design pictures are fantastic.
Thank you
Nancy.
Sorry, I should have warned you all about the horrible music.
i’d live in that. all i need now is the land on which to place it.
Narrow houses like that can give you some excellent exposure, but this design doesn’t have any spaces lit from opposite sides, even though the front and back rooms (livingroom and bedroom) could have been designed with light from 3 sides. Oh well.