Custom Goes Modular: Creating Your Custom-Designed Home

It may seem like a contradiction in terms to think of a modular home and a custom-designed home as one and the same, but with the creative and efficient building techniques developed by the current crop of upscale modular home builders, it's easy to construct a unique home off-site, ship it, and assemble it on the homeowner's land.

Typically, an architectural engineer will sit down with a prospective home buyer and discuss design ideas based on a combination of the customer's housing needs and the parameters set down by the home builder. Homeowners can choose from a shopping list of features to be integrated into one of a variety of available designs, Once the details are settled on, the home is constructed in sections and then moved to the home site.

One home design and building firm,