Word: lindall
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...bold, angled roof, dormer windows and a country-cottage feel reminiscent of 19th century architect Andrew Jackson Downing. Aside from its traditional style, there are several major differences between this and other Graves homes. Designed as a "kit house," it was crafted in a factory owned by Seattle-based Lindal Cedar Homes and shipped to its destination on a truck. Unlike typical Graves houses, which can easily cost $1 million, LaChance and Rice's 2,000-sq.ft. prefabricated abode will be completed for well under $300,000, including the land. "We didn't have a clue what a kit house...
Forget boxes on wheels and tacky subdivisions. Prefab is now just plain fab. Once the poor stepchild of residential construction, so-called systems-built housing is now the province of topflight architects, who are reinventing the genre with innovative designs, new building components and environmentally friendly approaches. In September, Lindal (2003 sales: $50 million) begins offering two versions of the Graves-designed kit house on its website, where it already sells a prefab home created by James Cutler, the architect behind the home of Microsoft chairman Bill Gates. New Jersey architect-cum-performance artist Adam Kalkin is taking orders...
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