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This month’s Dwell magazine is devoted to prefab housing and has a wealth of information for anyone considering a prefab home. The cover features this beautiful home. Art object or machine for living in? Architect William Massie’s personal prefab project takes the mass out of mass customization to create a one-of-a-kind wonder.

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GARY CHANG stood in the middle of his apartment on a recent Saturday morning, ignoring a message from his Nintendo Wii on the wall-size screen: “Are you fidgeting? I can’t seem to analyze you.” He repositioned the game system’s balance board, stepped on for a second run of downhill skiing and began to shift from [...]

I’ll admit that when you think of Laura Ashley, you’re picturing shabby chic’ish flowers on flowers on flowers. But the quality is so good and yet affordable, it was worth checking out. Here are some great products that I think would work great in Modern interiors!
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“This 1,000 square-foot weekend cabin, basically a steel box on stilts, can be completely shuttered when the owner is away. Situated near a river in a floodplain, the 20’ x 20’ square footprint rises three stories and is topped by the living room/kitchen. Large, 10’ x 18’ steel shutters can be closed simultaneously using a [...]

It’s amazing the effect an area rug can have on practically every room in the home. Bathrooms, living rooms, nurseries, bedrooms, and kitchens all need a central piece that keeps everything in the space connected and grounded. In my last apartment, my roommate’s mother insisted on decorating our apartment for us. Pretty lucky, right? Wrong! [...]

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I’m really into the Pre-Fab movement but when I saw these prints from an authentic 1970s pre-fab, I realized how much our tastes have come full circle. The interior, color palette, furnishings are so now that I think that anyone could live in this fabulous pod without seeming out of date.

venturo prefab, originally uploaded [...]

When I see something as spectacular as the LoftCube, I wish I could start my adult life all over again. Instead of buying my little studio in the West Village, I would have bought a LoftCube for around $120,000, had it assembled on some cheap land (back then) in the Hamptons, and furnished [...]

We’ve had our eye on the trend for pre-fabricated modern sheds for a while — with the recent addition of Kithaus to the lineup at Design Within Reach and the upcoming MoMA exhibit on prefab housing, this could be just the beginning…

The New York Times real estate magazine Key takes a look at the [...]