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Tiny Living Countryside. $23,000 from 84 Lumber. Shop Now. The price will get you 203 square feet of living space. The low-e windows and composting toilet described in the plans are an added plus.
The kit includes a shelving system—just add their favorite books or plants—and shatter-resistant windows for maximum volume. The door opening is extra wide for moving in furniture (or a drum kit).
Complete with windows and a front patio, this is no mere shed. This wood mini-home is just the right size for a den or an "outdoor" living room that can be used all year long. $2,611 at Amazon
Cover of the 1916 catalog of Gordon-Van Tine kit house plans A modest bungalow-style kit house plan offered by Harris Homes in 1920 A Colonial Revival kit home offered by Sterling Homes in 1916 Cover of a 1922 catalog published by Gordon-Van Tine, showing building materials being unloaded from a boxcar Illustration of kit home materials loaded in a boxcar from a 1952 Aladdin catalogue
The Aladdin Company was a pioneer in the pre-cut, mail order home industry. Sometimes referred to as Aladdin Readi-Cut Houses, the company was the first to offer a true kit house composed of precut, numbered pieces. [1] Its primary competitors were Montgomery Ward and Sears, Roebuck and Co. (Sears Modern Homes) in the US and Eaton's in Canada ...
Sears Modern Homes were sold between 1908 and 1942. There is some debate about whether some homes from Sears that were built in 1941 and 1942 qualify as Sears Modern Homes. Some of these homes were based on models offered in the Sears Modern Homes catalog. Others were not, but were still pre-cut kit homes built from plans and materials from Sears.
That's right: The mega-retailer is selling tiny home kits, delivering your new dream house right to your door. The structures are available starting at just over $3,000 , which is pretty impressive.
Kit-of-parts philosophy goes hand in hand with advanced manufacturing, automation, and computer and information technologies. Handling multiple identical components as instances of a master element is an efficient use of the computer in the planning stage, and use of standard components can take advantage of mass-production and mass ...