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Special Delivery: New Modular Homes Go Anywhere

Written by Matt Hickman, Mother Nature Network

There’s a new modern green prefab company on the scene gearing up to produce sleek, factory-built homes that no doubt possess a couple of deceiving, shipping container-ish traits including, most notably, an easy-to-transport nature and rectangular form.

But when it comes down to it, these modular beauties are anything but shipping container homes. In fact, the folks at just-launched Los Angeles-based Connect:Homes make a concerted effort to distance their product from the retrofitted shipping container home fad, claiming that “ contain a lot of toxic materials, are very difficult to re-purpose, and really aren’t meant … read more