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Want to buy a tiny house online? With these kits you can build an artist's studio, backyard she shed, rental guest house, or woodland vacation cabin.
Sears Modern Homes were houses sold primarily through mail order catalog by Sears, Roebuck and Co., an American retailer. From 1908 to 1942, Sears sold more than 70,000 of these houses in North America, by the company's count. [1] Sears Modern Homes were purchased primarily by customers in East Coast and Midwest states, but have been located as ...
Handy Home Products Palisade Shed. 'Handy' is right! This tiny home is billed as a shed, but that's much too modest. It features sliding barn-style double doors, overhead windows to let in light ...
Kit houses, also known as mill-cut houses, pre-cut houses, ready-cut houses, mail order homes, or catalog homes, were a type of housing that was popular in the United States, Canada, and elsewhere in the first half of the 20th century.
That's right: The mega retailer is selling tiny home kits, so you can have materials to assemble your downsized dream house delivered right to your door. The structures start at $7,950,...
Lustron houses are prefabricated enameled steel houses developed in the post- World War II era United States in response to the shortage of homes for returning G.I.s by Chicago industrialist and inventor Carl Strandlund. Considered low-maintenance and extremely durable, they were expected to attract modern families who might not have the time ...
British architect Richard Horden, at the Technical University of Munich, developed the Micro Compact Home (M-CH), a high-end small (76 sq ft or 7.1 m 2) cube designed for 1–2 persons, with functional spaces for cooking, hygiene, dining/working, and sleeping.
By Bud Dietrich, AIA Kit houses were America's first mass-produced, prefab homes, sold by Sears, Montgomery Ward, Gordon Van Tine, Aladdin and a few others. The materials for these homes, ordered ...
Kit house: a type of pre-fabricated house made of pre-cut, numbered pieces of lumber. Sears Catalog Home : an owner-built "kit" houses that were sold by the Sears, Roebuck and Co. corporation via catalog orders from 1906 to 1940.
Prefabricated homes, often referred to as prefab homes or simply prefabs, are specialist dwelling types of prefabricated building, which are manufactured off-site in advance, usually in standard sections that can be easily shipped and assembled.