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  2. Kit house - Wikipedia

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    Kit house. 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. [ 1] Kit house manufacturers sold houses in many different plans and styles, from simple bungalows ...

  3. Sears Modern Homes - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  4. DIY Kit Homes You'll Want to Build This Summer - AOL

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    Kentucky-based Mighty Small Homes is well known for its range of kit houses, including this trailer-mounted tiny home. It's a snug 192 square feet with room and can be customized with a loft space ...

  5. The tiny house trend: Should you downsize to a tiny home or ...

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    There’s no universal size that defines a tiny house. Some folks consider anything from 150 to 400 square feet a tiny home, while others call their 800- or 1,000-square-foot home “my tiny house ...

  6. List of house types - Wikipedia

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    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. Laneway house: a type of Canadian house that is constructed behind a normal single-family home that opens onto a back ...

  7. Kit House (Style Spotlight) - AOL

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    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 ...

  8. Lustron house - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  9. Tiny-house movement - Wikipedia

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    The NestHouse tiny house was designed and built by Jonathan Avery of Tiny House Scotland, Linlithgow UK. In Brazil, Tiny Houses Brazil was the first mini-house factory in the country, operating out of a shed on a farm property in Porangaba, São Paulo. The company develops projects and builds mini-houses on wheels.

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