This isn't the aboriginal time that off-the-shelf homes acquire been hailed as the band-aid however. Anyone of a assertive age remembers "prefabs", "temporary" replacements for bomb-damaged Granny House , still in affirmation aloft the country acknowledgment to their constant popularity. And, while modular apartment for the masses is accepted in Australia, the United States and Germany, British examples acquire mainly been bound to one-off, self-build projects.

More afresh though, organisations such as the Peabody Trust acquire commissioned several ample modular developments such as London's Murray Grove and Baron's Place. And now, Cube Apartment Solutions is alms absolutely adapted and attainable to move into Cub Homes – delivered beeline from the branch attic aural 12 weeks of agreement an order. Advised by Charlie Greig, they barrage at the Ideal Home

Show on 20 March. She hopes that one day her architectonics will address to a accumulation bazaar and sit neatly a allotment of adequate Victorian and Edwardian terraces: "I'd like to actualize Cubs which accommodate as abounding bodies as attainable with the adventitious to own their own admirable home that works with the ambiance rather than adjoin it.", so the Cub's acute autogenous comes as a affable surprise.

With top ceilings and anesthetized frontages, even the aboriginal Cub at 51 aboveboard metres feels roomy. Modular apartment may be formulaic but buyers can acquire from Ablaze and White or Midnight colour schemes and a ambit of interiors depending on budget.

With a accomplishments in fashion, Greig angry to acreage and was anon designing and architectonics homes for a celebrity audience including aloft Spice Girl Emma Bunton. Eight months ago, she started her architectonics aggregation afterwards adequate a fan of modular homes which she loves for their basal carbon footprint. "You can save on 90 per cent of decay if you body off site," she says.

Greig spent three months researching her product, affairs her own home to armamentarium the business, and now intends converting the nation: "Even if you don't affliction about extenuative the planet, these homes are bargain to buy and run. In a recession who doesn't affliction about that?"

Starting at £88,500, active costs for heat, ablaze and blast are acutely low and these "plug and play" actualization Sentry Box acquiesce you to add accession storey aural 24 hours if your ancestors expands. As able-bodied as attention communities, adjustable active negates affective costs and mortgages are attainable acknowledgment to approval from Civic House-Building Council and the Administration of Communities and Bounded Government's Cipher for Sustainable Homes scheme.