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By Jordan Lebovich, JBL Photography
For the 2012 Sunset Magazine Idea House, Sunset Magazine and Blu Homes
teamed up to create a spacious, updated Breezehouse, built in Blu Home’s
state-of-the-art factory in Mare Island.
The home arrived in three trucks and the panels were then
assembled on-site in Healdsburg on a steep lot that over-looks the wine
country. Unbelievably the house was installed in only a day and a half and then finished in about a week.
Of course the site engineering
and preparation took several weeks, but once the foundation was ready it was
quick work. The Breezehouse is a modular home that seamlessly blends indoor living
with the outdoors and provides a stunning environment that is healthy,
energy-efficient, and well constructed. Since
the house is precision built to local and state codes at the factory, onsite
inspection times are shorter and there is less impact to a city’s resources.
Some of the environmentally
friendly features include:
- Built in a controlled setting with faster
construction time
- Steel framing is recycled up to 90%
- Batt insulation is recycled up to 80%, with
no phenol, formaldehyde or acrylics used
- Low VOC (volatile organic compounds) paints
- Reclaimed wood or bamboo floors
The home features two bedrooms, a guest
bedroom/office and three bathrooms as well as a separate in-law unit or Breeze Pod. There is lots of storage space throughout
the house. For a factory built home, the house is beautiful and pretty amazing. Blu Homes is a San Francisco and
Boston-based company founded out of a research project by MIT and the Rhode
Island School of Design to transform the way pre-fab homes are built. They use technology to help revolutionize the
way that green homes are built. For floor plans, a virtual tour
and more information go the Sunset Magazine Breezehouse Idea House page.
