Posted on 11/21/2017 11:09:24 AM PST by mairdie
... The M.A.Di Home was created by Italian architect, Renato Vidal. It is earthquake resilient and has the eco-friendly capacity to become completely off-grid with solar panels, LED lighting and rain water systems.
The home can be built at any location without the need for it to be constructed on concrete foundations.
The assembly process takes a team of three people just six to seven hours, and involves each module being unfolded before roof pitches, interiors walls and flooring are added. ...
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Now, those are some LURES. :=)
My house has a closet bigger than 162 sq ft.
Very exciting.
Color me green with envy. Mother’s first statement upon seeing our first and last house: “But Mary it only has one closet.” “Oh, mommy, no house has only one closet.” Sigh.
Those staircase/shelves look very clean and very cool but I honestly don’t see how they pass code without a railing.
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Excellent point! I remember houses on the water around Seattle. Truly amazing. Do they get you seasick?
Yeah. Good grief, fall out of bed and roll off into space. And real life isn’t like in the cartoons.
Most are in fairly sheltered coves posted no wake so movement is minimal, you only notice it when you lay down to go to sleep. Not enough to induce seasickness, lol.
My dad helped my grandfather build their family home from a kit in the 40s. Came with everything, right down to the nails.
When it arrive on the flatbed truck, they just tipped the bed and let it all slide off. The windows came on a separate truck.
His father could plainly see that some of the lumber was damaged during the unloading. The delivery driver handed him a form and told him to just list everything damaged, and they’d be back in a smaller truck with all the replacement parts.
Someone figured out it was cheaper to replace a few items than to take the time unloading the truck by hand.
Fascinating economics. As long as what was damaged wasn’t instantly needed, it probably wouldn’t even be frustrating.
Yes, and it would FLY very well in a hurricane or tornado.
I think that Menards still sells house kits.
I can’t even CLEAN my house in 6 hours, much less build one!
I guess the trick is to not build it in places that have hurricane force winds or tornadoes.
The smart person will also place it between or by natural land wind blockers such as a hillside or big rock formations bearing in mind which direction high winds usually come from.
I wonder how well these quick build modular building would hold up compared to a standard mobile home type modular meant to be placed at ground level. What about the wall thickness and how well they insulate from the heat and cold of the changing seasons?
Oh yeah, I saw that show. Lovely little house for 200k. :-)
But I will admit, I thought the young boy’s sleeping area in the hull section was really cool.
LOL
Those berths down a half flight of steps are a little unnerving if there’s no window. Probably just paranoia, those pontoons are filled with foam so the boat isn’t going to sink even if another boat hit it, but worrying about waking up and getting out of there if water did start coming in was a factor. Ours had five berths and we didn’t use that one. Kind of cozy and very private, but vaguely coffin-like too and below the water line.
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