A home built from an identical kit is located next door. The "twin" Sentry Box share a driveway, a common sight when two catalog homes are located side-by-side in Alabama.

Hunter writes well, in easy-to-digest chunks of text separated by frequent section headings. Plentiful images and illustrations are accompanied by informative captions. She also keeps things interesting by quoting owners of kit homes, both original and current, and by including tidbits such as the homes’ prices, colorful advertising copy, and assorted trivia.

Kit homes have seen a recent revival in Europe and North America as they are comparably cheap when you consider the homes already on their real estate market. The global financial crisis has lowered the cost of rentals or home ownership in Europe and North America though, so that factor may have reversed some of the kit homes popularity.

After the Prestwoods bought the home, they ripped wallpaper from the 14-foot walls topped with picture-hanging molding, remodeled the tiny-but-quaint kitchen, painted the wrap-around porch, and added a small laundry nook at the back of the home.

After a month we received our first electrical bill. We consumed 350 kWh and produced 384 kWh, receiving a credit on our bill. Our solar hot water installer, Full Spectrum Solar, suggested that we unplug the electrical water heater backup system and see how long we can last with using only the sun to heat our water. It’s been 73 days and we have not needed to plug in the backup electric water heater. We take showers every day, do multiple loads of laundry when the sun’s out, wash our dishes after every meal, and have yet to run out of hot water. There was only one day when we took a “Luke Skywalker shower” with lukewarm water. My guess is that in November when the string of shady days begins to descend on Wisconsin we will need to plug into the electrical grid.

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Since the VeraEdge is designed to support whole-home automation and security, you can integrate additional Z-Wave and/or IP devices into the system anytime. In addition to providing automated and remote control for devices, the VeraEdge can send you optional email/text message alerts for certain events. Geofencing and advanced occupancy sensing also allow automation and alerts based on your cell phone’s location. For example, you could set up a connected light to turn on when you get close to home.

A FirstDay Cottage is a house kit with a unique building system designed specifically for people who want to build themselves a home. FirstDay Cottages require few tools, are tolerant to error and are strong and elegant. Building a FirstDay Cottage is a lot of work and takes a significant commitment, but once complete can earn you valuable sweat equity and a new home. FirstDay Cottage has been helping people build themselves a home for over 20 years and now has over 250 houses in more than 30 states and two foreign countries. We are now featuring our new designs for the Single-Story T house, which builds off all that we have learned about owner-built Mobile Toilet in the last 20 years of FirstDay Cottage.