Ikea Prefab has finally arrived out west. Yes, you read that right. After offering their extensive (and impressive) line of Prefab homes only to those lucky enough to share a continent with the Swedish manufacturer, we here in the good old U S of A can finally get in on the awesome! Now, not only can you snag the affordable… Read more →
Category: PreFab
Like Crack for Design Enthusiasts.
That is approximately 1/3 of the pile of crap I brought home from Dwell on Design to sort through and eventually, in some form or another, write about. The LA Convention Center is BIG (and NOT easy to navigate) and the eye candy was plentiful. Designers and creators were on hand to chat at almost every booth, and as an… Read more →
Dream a little dream.
Once upon a time, before there was a baby on the way…before the economy took a nose dive…Scott and I had decided that our first home would be one of these beautiful pre-fab creations known as a FlatPak House. We made our preliminary plans (ours was to be notably smaller than those pictured in this gallery) we got our quote,… Read more →
As the world turns…so does your house.
Emma sent this house to me a few weeks ago, and it may be one of my favorite prefab creations yet. I’d actually seen the original rotating house on HGTV, but had somehow missed the fact that Solaleya has made this incredible concept available in a PreFab. These unique homes are very reasonably priced (for home builds only) but lord… Read more →
The Stahl House
Isn’t it incredible that one of the most famous (and coolest) houses in LA, The Stahl House (aka Case Study 22), was commissioned and built for only about eleven thousand bucks? Of course that was back in 1960, when you could get an architect like Pierre Koenig to build you a glass house on a slab of rock that would… Read more →
So crazy it might just be awesome.
The UK’s YOUMEHESHE 7.83 Hz house is one of the coolest pieces of pre-fab architecture I’ve ever seen, and at 170k (sans land,) it’s certainly something to fantasize about. Read more →