Comments on: HOM LIFESTYLE: The Whole Green Prefab Package

By: jose monroy

jose monroy — Wed, 27 May 2009 23:54:40 +0000

I thank you for the opportunity to mail me information to be able to buy from you a house of 100 m2 to be transported to veracruz mexico , if possible.
If you have any customer in veracruz mexico pls contact me to know the proper way to do so, thank you in advance Jose Monroy

By: GRIZZ

GRIZZ — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 17:01:05 +0000

I’m sorry gentleman, but in the Northeast I can purchase a 1,800 sq. ft. New Mobile for around $70,000.00 tops.
Do I sense something wrong here??

By: bluefrog62

bluefrog62 — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 10:16:10 +0000

I understand using recycled products are costly, but $200.00 a square foot is overpriced, especially when you figure in land, a general contractor to level and build the deck, plus shipment of the home. This brings us to close to $400,000.00 for a 1000 square foot home. Out of reach for most families considering a vacation get -away…

By: Merlin

Merlin — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 20:39:27 +0000

It’s not “your average doublewide” because it is a singlewide.

By: meli

meli — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 00:54:47 +0000

Ok I’m interested…why is the HOM site so hard to navigate???

By: Fred

Fred — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 14:19:23 +0000

I like the similar “eco-friendly” concept. For this purpose, it should be as simple as possible.

By: earthsmile

earthsmile — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 15:52:36 +0000

OK… URL’s verboten !!!!!! So for the cool foundation…go to ‘pinfoundations’ via google… and ‘diamond pier’ as the product.

By: earthsmile

earthsmile — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 15:48:55 +0000

Hi Folks… don’t complain about price. Just do the research. If you do, you’ll find that nothing in this design is proprietary, which is to say that it’s an assemblage a various ideas and construction/design protocols that are well known. This allows you to find a skilled builder and a young up-and coming architect… with whom you can ‘reverse- engineer’ this design for less… if doing so is desired. Yes… this means that this design could be realized for less than $200 a square foot… but just not as an offering from these designers. Hey… it’s free country right ? So enjoy the freedom… Check out: for a cool, prefab foundation system.

By: yellow eyes

yellow eyes — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 17:24:22 +0000

!000sq. ft. @ $200 a sq. ft., is not for the average person and definately not in line for modular homes of that size..

By: badconsumer

badconsumer — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 23:17:02 +0000

I’m a huge fan of pre-fab and modular and I think it’s great this site promotes the vision, but there is one glaring issue I have with this industry. Almost all of the products, including this one, are essentially designed for more sprawl. They are marketed for use on either suburban or country lots. Not only is the world rapidly urbanising, but North America in particular does not need more dream homes to drive to.

Not only do most of us need better quality, greener urban housing stock, we don’t all have the budget for a country cabin!

Where are the designers and vendors that address urban pre-manufactured housing? Where are the local governments re-thinking zoning to support and encourage factory homes? The fundamental skills in designing and manufacturing these homes are encouraging, but the context is just bad design and definitely not green.

By: greenogreen

greenogreen — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 21:21:10 +0000

It’s hilarious to me that all so-called eco friendly sites displays nothing but stuff. There are more products per square inch of screen space in eco-sites than most other type of sites.

Don’t the site owners realize the immense amount of material-energy cost needed to produce a product, especially architectural structure? There is typically on the order of thousands pound of mined ore, discarded waste, water usage and spent fuel required to produce one pound of an average consumer product.

This general fact alone should render all “eco friendly” product site oxymoronic. Try not to consume unnecessary stuff is the only tenet all these sites need to espouse to.

By: bt

bt — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 19:19:10 +0000

it’s style again,
not design.

By: apartment7

apartment7 — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 18:27:34 +0000

i know i’m going to catch some scuff for saying this, but isn’t $200 sq/ft just a tad outrageous? i really love the idea of a modern modular/manufactured home, but how come anything decent is out of reach for people who make less than $75k/yr?