modular home Archives - Douglas Cutler Architects

Modular construction is natural too, ya’ know.

A brick is a man-made module of elegant simplicity that has been used by home builders for thousands of years, and although seemingly lifeless, assembled piles of bricks stuck together with mortar rise into a protective structures, just as cells called skin combine to cover and protect our bodies.

Modular Homes: Labor shortages and stricter credit requirements pave the way to a beautiful modular home in your future.

Now that the vast majority of our immigrant construction labor force has left for greener pastures... who will be left to build our homes when the new home construction market returns? The good news is the inevitable; surplus new home…

Systems Approval for Modulars… a thing of the past?

Very few people can take a stack of boxes and turn them into a pleasing home. Only a trained architect, with certification in modular systems structures, can take those modular boxes and make them into classic Victorians, grace-filled Colonials, charming Cape Cods, and bold and light filled contemporaries.

A trained architect is always the answer but don’t take my word for it just because I am one. Let me give you an example.

A while back we were helping a factory with the styling of a home. They were wise enough to know that their customer wanted an attractive showplace sitting on his expensive piece of land. I kept calling the factory because I saw through progress photographs that they were centering the windows vertically on each other instead of the placement we had drawn in the plans.