After Lowes’ Katrina houses, we now have IKEA’s flat-box shipped house options. But, they aren’t available in the US — at least not yet.
These little gems aren’t inexpensive, however. And one development in northern Europe is using the BoKlok homes, clustered, in neighborhoods. To learn more, read this Realtytimes.com article.
Although I love the tiny houses, and I like the idea of high-efficiency home production, these houses hold little charm. To me, they look like boxes — and ugly ones at that.
To each his own, I guess.
We have to start making energy efficient homes and in time architecht will enbraces this and improve on appearance. I think its a great idea. We just got our first IKEA store in Orlando last month what a huge huge huge store bigger than the largest mall next door to it.
I agree that energy efficiency and being more choice-driven in housing is important… I just think it can be pretty AND functional, even from the beginning.