Order Prefab homes online, manufactured and shipped to the location. Once it reaches the home location is assembled in 24 hours.
If ordering homes is as convenient as ordering books from online stores, then many will be happy. That's the idea behind a new line of prefabricated housing from LivingHomes of Santa Monica. It is like manufacturing homes in industries, shipping it to the buyer and installing at the location the buyer wants it. All these prefab homes are designed by famous architect Ray Kappe. However the prices of these homes don't come in cheap, the prices start from $775,000 for the house RK1 model shown in the picture and this doesn't include land and extra charges (which may be shipping or taxes in that area). This RK1 is a 3,100 Square Foot home. Check the gallery here, they are beautiful.
After the order is placed via online, the house is built in a factory, then it is trucked to the home location. Once it is reached there, it is assembled in one day. So you can move in right away. The designers of these homes say that this house is modern, eco-friendly, has high efficiency LED lighting, solar panel and an optional environmental monitoring system to keep energy use minimum. Most of the building materials are made of recycled materials, Counter-tops, tiles, structural steel, insulation are all made of recycled materials.
It is a new company, one home has been installed and six more are paid for will be done during the next year.
3 comments:
I heard about this Steve Glenn guy, the founder, from Clever Homes. He called up Clever Homes and said he was a "venture capitalist" and wanted to invest in them. So they let him come in and they told him their secrets. He then copied EVERYTHING they had and created Living Homes. He showed up at the Dwell conference (you can see it online in video someplace) and had used Clever Homes logo, copied their business plan, quoted the words of their architect and had pitced their technology to investors as his idea. Just look at him in the movies online.. he is a New York weasel. His houses are overpriced, you can get one for half the cost from 20 other pre-fab suppliers. They are death-traps because of the steel which draws EMF into the house and the coatings on his woods which out gas.. and they guy is just a jerk if you ever had to deal with him. He got his investors to pay for a free house for himself and now his factories see that he lied about the volume. I work at one of those factories.
Thanks for your comment, you should report this in Digg.com, it is sad people will do that. Don't they have Copyright protection or patent protection?
all,
the comments left by anonymous are absolutely, categorically untrue -- and i assume it's part of a some trip anonymous has with me/us. here's the proof: 1. he or she has posted this EXACT SAME COMMENT in two other blogs. in both cases, the blog master took the post down; 2. he/she is posting anonymously; 3. every claim is untrue. the facts:
1. when i started working on livinghomes in 2004, i spoke to a number of companies including clever homes, michelle kaufman and marmol radziner (who did my last home). i told each i was exploring doing a prefab company.
2. i never saw the business plan of any of these companies.
3. our logo hasn't changed since launch. nor has clever homes. you judge the difference. i can't help but point out that many have observed that clever homes actually copies our website, but i'm hoping anonymous isn't a clever homes affiliate, so i want to resist bringing clever homes into the frey. they're good people.
4. i'm not from new york. never even lived there.
5. a home like ours for half price from 20 other suppliers? show me one; we'll buy them there and make money!! problem is, there aren't even 20 suppliers actually shipping homes.
6. steel happens to be the most fire retardant of the major building materials. that's why it's used in skyscrapers.
7. i'm not a jerk. i'm a nice guy.
8. i paid for my home myself, thank you.
9. we don't have factories. we have A factory. we have built one home; have one in production; and a number are in permitting. that's not a lie.
anonymous, you're a flammer -- in the worse sense. if you want to make accusations, reveal yourself so that you can have an honest discussion of facts.
steve glenn
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