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Huf Huas Makes Pre-Fab Homes Fabulous

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Luxury housing and pre-fab have generally been two very different things but Huf Haus is changing the face of prefabrication by offering convenient, well-made factory homes that emphasize luxury. Based out of Germany, the firm builds homes in Europe before shipping them piece by piece to locations all around the world. The walls arrive with doors and windows already installed so building is a snap and a house can be up and completed in as little as a week. The Bauhaus-inspired floor plans are open, spacious and full of light, not to mention fully customizable so no two are exactly the same. Luxuries include floors of hardwood and granite, solar panels and heat pumps on the roof to maximize efficiency, and all kinds of paint, tile, and luxe material options for the interior.

All that beauty and convenience doesn't come cheap, though, as Huf Haus homes differ from stereotypical pre-fabs in one other key way: they're not cheap. Expect to pay $1-$10 million to have one of your own.

Gallery: Huf Haus Prefabricated Luxury Home

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Jeriko House, Another Entry In The Hot Prefab Market

by Deidre Woollard (RSS feed) —

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Anyone who has ever flipped through an issue of Dwell knows that prefab homes can be quite attractive and deluxe these days. A new option in prefab comes from a New Orleans-based business owner, Shawn Burst, who is the founder of Jeriko House. Burst met with a German engineer to develop an interlocking aluminum framing system that is the basis of his new housing system. Each section is manufactured with the electrical and plumbing infrastructures already incorporated for ease of setup. There are five major design models and they will have details like Asian teak finishes, coconut skin walls, marble and ceramics sourced from around the world. The first Jeriko House will go up on May 1 in New Orleans and there are tentative plans for a 100-house development in Utah.

Burst has also promised a portion of Jeriko's first $7 million in profits to help build a Community Outreach Center on St. Charles Avenue in New Orleans. He has also planned that for every 10th Jeriko House sold, those ten homeowners will form a committee that votes to give a Jeriko House to a family in need somewhere in the U.S.

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