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The Custom Modular Home Building Process

There are plenty of design decisions and customizations that take place prior to construction. By building a custom modular home you have the ability to change your home&#;s floor plan. You&#;ll be able to move walls, modify rooms and spaces, and build additions such as decks, porches, second stories, or garages.

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Once you begin your custom home building journey, the design process doesn&#;t end once you find the perfect single-family home floor plan. There are many customizations you can make to your existing home during your initial design consultation. From vaulted ceilings to custom cabinets, the sky truly is the limit when it comes to custom-designed modular homes. At Carolina Custom Homes, we&#;re here to help you create the perfect custom-built modular home, and will work alongside you every step of the way.

When you hear the term modular homes, you probably think of something akin to mobile homes on cinder blocks&#;temporary solutions for would-be homeowners that are far from the dream homes they hope to one day occupy. The truth, of course, is more complicated, and by the time you learn more about this fast-growing segment of the home-construction industry you may think, This is the home for me.

We&#;ve spoken to industry experts about the history, making of, and pros and cons of modular homes to give you the scoop on this old-but-new way of building homes, piece by piece.

What are modular homes versus manufactured homes versus mobile homes?

To get into the concept of modular homes, we need to go back to mobile homes&#;which, technically speaking, no one has made in the US for half a century.

After World War II, mobile homes exploded in popularity but were essentially unregulated. Often little more than trailers converted temporarily or permanently into makeshift houses, they were relatively cheap but not exactly the epitome of comfort or safety.

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In the mid-s, Congress and the Department of Housing and Urban Development passed laws and regulations that changed the landscape of the industry, setting down new standards and requirements and, importantly, literally redefining the product. From then on, what had been known as mobile homes were now officially &#;manufactured homes.&#; Technically speaking, manufactured homes are homes that are mostly built in a factory, transported to their permanent site, then assembled on-site on a foundation&#;all while meeting federal codes.

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The big difference between modular homes and manufactured homes is that modular homes also abide by state and local codes for housing, which are almost always stricter than federal codes but also vary from town to town and state to state. The rest of it&#;being mostly manufactured at a factory then assembled on a foundation on-site&#;is the same, differentiating these prefab housing solutions from &#;stick-built homes,&#; the term often used for homes built in the traditional way, entirely on-site. Nowadays, modular construction has evolved to the point where the craftsmanship can rival that of traditional homes and homebuyers can pick from almost any style and configuration they could imagine.

&#;The modular industry started from a trailer that pulled behind a car, so for decades, if you wanted a modular home, you opened a book and picked a model out,&#; says Gary Casazza, owner of a modular-home sales company in New Jersey and a member of the board of the Modular Building Institute. &#;In the last 30 years, that's changed&#;today, they&#;re custom homes.&#;

Not that modular homes are a new trend, though: You could famously mail order an entire home in a variety of styles and have it delivered straight to you via the Sears catalog from to . And America&#;s first prefab home was shipped over in pieces from England to Cape Ann, Massachusetts&#;in .

Casazza says the residential construction industry is essentially catching up to the efficiencies and improved standards introduced in other fields, like automobile manufacturing, where companies reduce time and expenses spent by streamlining the process with the help of modern assembly practices. Shifting the bulk of the manufacturing to centers with specialized experts just makes more sense than doing everything locale by locale, he says.

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