Designer Mobile Homes....why the hell not?

[Waverley_Hills_Hiker]

You know...Mobile Homes, Manufactured Housing, whatever....

If people like Martha Stewart, Phillpe Starkc, and Michael Graves can do "designer" stuff for Target and K-Mart.....and, back in the 70s, Oleg Cassini did a interiors/colors package for the AMC Matador...why cant some mobile home company higher some high=profile designer to do a trailer?

Like Frank Ghery, Rem Kooklhaas, or some other high-profile designer or artitist, to "style" a mobile home or doublewide.

That could be kind of cool...jazz up this somewhat bland housing type.

[the Kelly Gang]

1. I like mobile/pre-fab homes but most designs stink..

[Elidor]

2. I have recently seen

Two-story manufactured homes and "log-cabin" manufactured homes. Ye Gods! Some newer models feature "suites" or retreats - two different areas of bedrooms clustered around a common area with a master suite retreat on one end. Glamour bath, thermopane windows, high roof pitch, vaulted ceilings, etc. (I build ads for many of them.)

You can put lipstick on a pig, but it's still a pig. These things depreciate horribly. Real homes gain value over time (with proper upkeep). Manufactured housing is a cruel joke on the middle- and lower-class.

[politicat]

3. If you put the dumb things on a proper foundation, they do appreciate.

Just like a "real" house.

Unless, of course, you're in Boomtown colorado, where all houses are depreciating, no matter what type of foundation they're on. (you know things are bad when you've seen a dozen signs in 3 days for "Owner will carry 100%. $500 down. No Credit Check"....)

Pcat.

[Elidor]

4. I stand corrected

I asumed pigs would fly before a mobile home would ever appreciate. Not that I'm above living in one. Even a mobile home is beyond my means at present.

[politicat]

6. I know the feeling. There are days I feel really stuck....

Hey, I'll sell you one - owner will carry, no cash down, no credit check??

Pcat....

[politicat]

5. I guess that's what we did when we remodeled.

We pulled up the horrid carpet and lino and replaced it with laminate hardwood; in the LR it's cherry and maple in squares alternating direction (think giant red and blond chess board), in pine and ash stripes in the office, and cherry and ash randoms in the bedroom.

We did the kitchen in stone tile, the baths in cork over flagstone. We sponged the walls in the LR and both baths (Mediterranean blue with green and a pearl finish in LR and halls; Sea blue in the master bath with robin's egg trim, and sage in the guest bath.) The office is an antique Federalist green with white wainscotting and shelves. Kitchen is cream and electric blue with some deniming.

I did set design in college. The house looks fabulous, if only it wasn't 60 feet long and 16 feet wide....

Sigh.

My husband knows I married him for love - this is his house that he inherited from his Ex. If nothing else proves it, that does.

Pcat

[marigold20]

7. Mine was a 14 x 70

But I have fond memories of our mbile home - or trailer as some called it. After apartment living, it was nice to have so many windows, on all sides. And, best of all, we owned it! Having the water pipes freeze in -20 degree weather wasn't too great though.