How Offsite Displaces Site Built In The Suburban Subdivision
The first murmurs of discontent with suburban housing in the US were heard in the 1970s in California. The positive idea of the suburbs...
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Sign Value V Use Value Vis A Vis Manufactured Housing
By the time Thorstein Veblen appeared on the scene late in the 19th century, the free market free enterprise system had transformed the...
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The Manufactured Home As The Total Work Of Art ?
Architecture critic Neil Levine said of Frank Lloyd Wright's Usonian homes, '....moving into a Usonian was like checking into a hotel. ...
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How Manufactured Housing Becomes Mainstream
California is leading the charge at the political level to help manufactured compete on a level playing field with site built, ending ...
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Design for a 4 Bed 3 Bath Doublewide
In a previous post I drew up plans for a 3 Bed 2 Bath Doublewide of around 1,650 sq ft. In this post I up the stakes, adding another bed...
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Motivation For Courtyard Manufactured Subdivision
Although the mobile home arguably arose first as an auxiliary vehicle for the automobile, coming onto the scene soon after the...
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Festive Living, Factory Made
Warren Buffett says the most important task of a business is to delight the customer. And yet manufactured housing is usually ...
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Pied-à-Trailer ?
To become mainstream, the tiny home, what might amusingly be termed the 'pied-à-trailer', is probably best packaged to work ...
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Motor Court Manufactured Home Subdivision
A circular driveway with pleasant landscaping lends curb appeal and is a nice, practical feature. Add in a hedge running along the...
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Diagonal 3 Bed 2 Bath Mobile Home Park
Placing mobile homes at 45 degrees to the street greatly simplifies installation and reduces the required width of park streets. Here is...
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