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Wayback Wednesday… Custom v Catalog v Mass Produced

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Last year I wrote a post about various ways to design a home.  Not in the “pen to paper” way, but rather in the conceptual way.  Homes can generally be characterized in one of three ways.

• Custom - Built one at a time, all on site.  They might not be so custom that there will never be another one like it, but custom in that the builder gets a pile of materials and makes a house… each piece fitted on-site to the project.
• Catalog - Built from pre-designed and constructed components.  The buyer could go through a catalog and select the different types of rooms to go into their overall plan.  The subsystems could designed to go together onsite.
• Mass Produced - Factory built from the frame up and transported to the site for installation.  The first thing that comes to mind would be a “mobile home”, but there are some that are so beyond that.

In the post from last year I compared these to cars from the 1920s and 30s.  At that time, those were the distinct paths a car buyer could choose… full-on custom, catalog or mass produced.  Check out the link…  I think there is a revolution coming in home-building.  I think it is still a few years in the future, but it is coming.

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