Builder Living Home 2009

We were really looking forward to touring the Builder Living Home at this year's Builders Show. The pre-show buzz had really captured our attention and when we heard that then entire home was assembled inside the convention center in three and a half days, we had to see this one for ourselves!

This warm and modern prefab home came in around 2400 sq. ft., but did feel much larger thanks to wide doorways, enormous windows and a generous floor plan. The purpose of the home was to show the building industry that green, modular home construction can be physically and financially attainable. You can read more on the home's Z6 Goal Program (Zero Waste, Water, Energy, Emissions, Carbon & Ignorace), sustainable certifications and construction specs at the Living Homes site. This innovative start up is offering builders two lines of single and multi-family designs that result in healthier, happier homes that have a dramatically smaller ecological footprint than most new homes.

For now, we'd like to share some of our favorite design attributes of this spacious and sustainable home. We loved the open, yet very sturdy staircase, the open shelving in front of the kitchen window allowing storage without sacrificing the view, the fun and inspired kids room using low VOC chalkboard paint, the sustainable furnishings and the wide doorways with solid wheatcore doors.

Builder: Living Homes

Architect: Kieran Timberlake

Interior Design: Color Design Art