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Modern Quonset Housing

Modern quonset homes have come a LONG way since Sears once sold them through their catalog. Today’s quonset movement has captured the spirit and imagination of a new generation of architects and home buyers, who together have championed a variety of modern modular dwellings that challenge preconceptions about “quonset” homes as cheap, cookie-cutter structures of…

What is Quonset Housing?

Quonset housing, for many of us, conjures up visions of being stuck behind half a house drug along the highway to its next space. Sadly “trailer trash” is part of our modern vocabulary. Thankfully Quonset housing today is far more than ugly oversized trailers. The first documented Quonset house was the Manning Portable Cottage. It…

Modular Quonset Steel Housing Kits

Modular quonset buildings are sectional buildings prefabricated off-site in a factory in a similar way to mobile homes, but there are many differences between the two. Each modular quonset house consists of several different sections called modules. A module is a six sided box that can be placed or stacked in a variety of different…

Prefab Green Homes- An Eco Friendly Solution

Over the last few years people have become more aware of the “eco friendly” nature of the products they buy and the services they consume. When they buy houses or engage the services of workmen they want to be sure that the parts and materials that are being used on their behalf are also eco…

Prefabricated Home Additions – Quality without the Cost

It is becoming more and more common to see houses being built or upgraded using modular and prefabricated quonset housing. Why this popularity? The answer is simple prefabricated modular units have advantages that other construction methods cannot match. Some of these advantages include: Flexibility Of Design More traditional housing construction methods limit the homeowner to…

Another Reason to Buy a Quonset Home

What really is striking about the quonset steel building option is that it is easy to transport and does not cut back on the time spent during construction. In fact using this innovating method cuts back on the monies spent but does not cut back on the designing factor. One of the best ways to…

Features of a Prefab Quonset Hut Home

Prefab quonset hut houses boast of the same features as a traditional house without the heavy price tag and cookie cutter designs. You can have your full range of master bathrooms with glass shower enclosures and whirlpool tubs, electric shutters, huge walk in closets, fully equipped gourmet kitchen, floor heating, central heating and other such…