Prefab

Regular readers of BGTV have followed the exciting design journey of our star member GreenModernKits, also known as Copeland Casati.

Today, Copeland announced her new prefab green cottage kit, available at GreenCottageKits.com.

The kit "offers affordable, traditional cottage and larger cabin kit home design with green energy efficient technology" such as passive solar, rainwater collection, and the use of Structural Insulated Panel ("SIPs").

The 2000 (or smaller) square foot modular homes were inspired by traditional Virginian architecture including farmhouses, browstones, and colonial buildings.

Copeland teamed with architect Eric Drivdahl to complete the design, and floorplans of the two story homes are available on the kit's website (the sister site of GreenModernKits.com).

You can read more about the new design on Copeland's announcement in our Share section, and you can follow Greenmodernkits blog on our website.

Congratulations to Copeland and GreenCottageKits.com!

We're looking forward to watching these kits being assembled and turned into homes!

Hi everyone!!!

I am thrilled to announce our prefab Green Cottage Kit design is here!

Although a modern enthusiast, I grew up (and my parents still reside) in a home built in 1801. A Virginia native, I appreciate old farmhouses, Victorian brownstones, colonial and happy, yes, exuberantly happy cottage architecture.

So, when people came to me on GreenModernKits.com asking for a cottage, I understood.

So I kidnapped Eric Drivdahl, an award winning architect with a heart of gold, and he designed a gorgeous, passive solar, SIPs, cottage kit with so many thoughtful details:

- 2,000 sq. ft. (and less: this house has 3 configurations)

- 3 bedrooms (or less)

- Structural Insulated Panels (SIP) for energy efficiency

- Passive Solar

- Trombe Wall

- Nooks and Crannies where you can curl up and read your books!

We haven't even named it yet, but we're so happy.

If you have any names you'd like to suggest, we'd love to hear them!

Sincerely yours,

Copeland

aka Green Modern Kits! : )

Well, my fabulous contractor, Ron Bernaldo of Giant Oaks Construction just called to tell me...

He has the building permit for our modern plan casa ti house kit in his hand!

Now the fun begins!

Stay tuned!

If you'd like to follow along, you can also check regularly on my modern prefab green building project page and my blog for our own casa ti house kit.

As we finish the systems design and wait for warm weather (it is currently too cold to pour) I thought I'd start a project blog on building our off grid house in Charlotte County, Green Modern Kit's casa ti.

So, if you're interested (or just bored!) head on over to...

Other blogs will become available on each upcoming project soon- The R1 Residence in Mountain View, for instance.

I'll post those blogs here as the links become available.

We've posted plenty about modern green prefab design here at Building Green.

We pretty much love everything Michelle Kaufmann touches; we adore most of the small prefab options on the market today; and we're thrilled that there has been such a resurgence of interest in prefab housing.

It saves on so many resources, and so many designers are incorporating green materials, appliances and principles into their homes.

There's only been one problem as far as we can tell: If you don't go for sleek, modern, airy design like we do, most of today's popular green prefab might not be for you.

That's why we were happy to stumble upon Details' custom-level modular homes this morning. They're prefab and, unlike most green prefab homes, they're very traditional in appearance. Just take a look at the adorable CoHo cottage pictured above.

Details' prefab homes are highly energy-efficient (think SIP panels, tankless water heaters, and open and closed cell spray foam insulation), save on natural resources and place a healthy indoor environment at the top of their list of priorities.

Read more about Details' green prefab here (warning: It's a PDF).

Image courtesy of Ross Chapin Architects