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Modern Homes – Are Just What You Need

admin — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 12:39:39 +0000

The architects keep the needs and desires of the people, who are going to live in those houses, in mind before they build the houses. Interior designing is the difficult art of designing houses, which has become a very popular a subject in the universities these days. According to the natural factors like, air, sunlight and other microelements, the designers construct the house in a manner that will be best for the welfare of the dwellers. This belief is called Feng Shui and it has its origins from China.

Modern Homes have several rooms and each of these rooms have their unique functions. These rooms include the atrium, the attic, the alcove, the basement, the bathroom, the bedroom, the conservatory, the dining room, the room for the family and many more. Light frame techniques are used for building such remarkable houses. There are many such commendable houses built all over the world. A striking plan of center-courtyard is found in architecture of one of these contemporary houses built for an elderly couple. In the backside of the building, there is a glass facade, which is 20-meyers long. This façade faces an embankment connecting to the living room, kitchen and the dining room, which is situated opposite to the lush green lawns.

In modern homes, the abundant open floors gives an impression which comes across as very uninhibited and the vision of the outdoor looks very widespread from whichever angle one may look at it and that gives a look like the house is built right at the lap of nature. The terrace of this house also has a solar panel, which helps the house in low consumption of power. The floors of this house are kept warm in the summer and cool in the winter by a heat pump, which is built with the house. The architecture of modern homes prefers single storied rooms. This helps in reducing the cost of constructing such houses of elaborate intricacy. In order to build the houses on its concrete slab, materials, which are prefabricated, are used. To make sure that the panel serves energy, the rooftops of the modern houses feature photovoltaic, as it is in nature, sustainable.

A balance is maintained by checking the heat of the summer and the chilly air of winter by the steel plate at the top of these houses. A contractor of concretes constructed the concepts of homes that are made of contemporary and concrete walls. In the homes exterior, there are concrete walls, which are curved giving the house a striking feature. This house has a design, which includes a series of blocks and that gives the house a grand and elegant look. Bright and natural lights decorate the interior highlighting the polish finish of the floors, which are made of stones. See it from outside. They are marked by minimal décor with an assortment of wooden furniture, modern elements of art and customized showpieces, which attracts your attention to all the main places of the modern houses.

Modern Prefabricated Homes And Their Benefits

admin — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 00:28:10 +0000

While a traditional home is built by workmen on a site, a prefabricated house is built in a factory. In other words, sections of a prefab home are built in large pieces in a factory, transported to the owner’s land and then simply assembled and placed onto a pre-existing foundation.

Modern prefab homes are also popularly known as modular homes as you can put together any number of rooms to create the kind of home you wish.

Prefab homes are increasingly witnessing high demand due to a variety of reasons:

Speedy construction

The construction of a prefab home is much faster than a custom built home. Within two months of order time your home is ready.

Since each room is built in a factory, all you have to do is to place your order with the prefab house builders and your house is built, transported to your site and then put together. On the other hand a traditional home can take few months or even a year.

Life nowadays has become very fast and people are perennially short of time. Prefab modern homes are an ideal option as they are faster to build and hassle-free.

Better Insulation

The insulation of prefabricated walls is superior to traditional houses as they are built in a factory. Although site-built walls are thicker than prefab walls, they still tend to sag over a period of time.

Protection from Bugs

Since modules of prefab houses are built in the factory, they are better protected from bugs. In contrast, traditional homes take a lot of time to build so the timber and other parts are more exposed to damage.

Money Saver

Once your prefab home is built, you can save a lot of money on electricity due to superior insulation. Precious money is also saved on lumber. It generally reduces construction and design costs to a great extent as compared to a traditional home.

Design the Way You Like

With a prefabricated home you get the benefit of designing your own home according to your whims and fancy. You can choose the number of rooms you want, their size, designs, etc.

Environment- Friendly

Prefabricated homes are less damaging to the environment as they are made from recycled, renewable materials, use less energy and don’t pollute. As people are becoming more conscious about environment, the demand for eco-friendly green prefab homes is growing.

In fact, there are green home building websites now that offer aesthetically designed environment-friendly prefab houses, modern outdoor and indoor furniture, home accessories, etc.

Better Equipped to Handle Natural Disasters

Prefab homes are stronger than traditional homes. Particularly, for an area which has experienced hurricanes or tornadoes, a prefab is an ideal choice as they can withstand violent storms and other natural disasters better than traditional homes.

Lower prices, faster and easier to build, and a range of designs to choose from are the chief benefits of prefabricated homes. The popularity of prefabricated homes is thus sky rocketing.

Prefab homes today are built from such advanced technology that you can’t even tell the difference between a prefabricated house and a traditional house. People from all walks of life are now choosing prefabricated homes instead of traditional homes.

Modern Prefab Homes Are Spread Across the Globe

admin — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 12:32:33 +0000

Whoever thought that prefab homes could ever become a hot item, but that is what is happening with new modernist prefab home designs. Even ten or fifteen years ago, owning a claustrophobic plastic box home was not considered the height of elegance.

But that is changing rapidly, just like ‘red can become the new black’ modern prefab homes have become the latest chic, must have, in housing design. Many top residential architects are now trying their hand at designing eco-friendly, prefab homes.

Demand for these new designer, homes is booming across the globe. Everywhere from Australia to Europe, to North America, people are now turning to housing that is built off-site then brought in to the home owner’s lot to be quickly assembled.

Modern prefab homes are suddenly considered to be a mainstream alternative to traditional block and brick structures and have moved a long way from the image of being the only suitable for retired residents in a senior’s friendly, Florida development.

Like all great new ideas, these homes are not actually a new idea; nearly 100 years ago Sears were advertising ‘mail-order’ housing in their catalog, 30 years ago. Japanese developers were selling what they dubbed ‘living capsule’s’ for Tokyo’s land deprived masses.

All over the world architects, designers and large corporations are moving in on eco-friendly prefab homes. One example is trendy Swedish furniture maker Ikea, who built an entire village of modern homes at a place called Boklok in Sweden, all of which were snapped up in by eager buyers, even before construction began.

And in a twist to the prefab home market the company has just started selling ‘flatpacked’ apartments to the residents of London for just $140,000, by London standards that is the price of a garage.

Never slow to catch on to a hot new idea, the Japanese company Muji is offering
eco friendly prefab homes for around $200,000 fully inclusive of all interior and exterior fittings, again by Japanese standards this is far less than the cost of a minuscule apartment.

In the US, several household name stores are moving into the modern prefab house market, and with good reason. Market research company Freedonia has reported that it expects the market in the US for eco-friendly, prefab homes to reach $15 billion this year. Well-known big-time investors, like Warren Buffett are buying into manufacturing companies that are involved in the production of modern prefab homes.

Many of these new eco-friendly, prefab homes are built using environmentally sustainable materials, previously not considered such as bamboo. An architectural design company down in Australia has gone even further producing a house made of recycled cardboard stuck together with Velcro, for now, that may be a step too far, even for the most eco-friendly, prefab home owner.