Gallery: A Company That Lets You Custom-Design Your Dream Home Online

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    Agoura Hills Breezehouse

    Premium prefab housing has gone through a revival in recent years. Blu Homes is one of a few companies that does the design, manufacturing, and set up as a company.
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    Healdsburg Sidebreeze

    Building a house is a dream that comes with a massive headache. Since launching in 2008 Blu Homes has tried to change that.
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    Healdsburg Sidebreeze 3

    Blu Homes uses proprietary 3-D modeling software to let customers scroll through templates and hundreds of finishing options online. Once they've settled on a design, they order it.
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    FactoryEXT2013-01-09

    It's assembled at a factory in northern California. Blu Homes has a patent for their origami-like folding system, which allows entire houses to fold up for shipping.
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    Upon arrival, they need about one day for set up. (Finishing details like siding takes longer.)
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    Adrienne Aubry
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    Healdsburg Sidebreeze 10

    Blu Homes has been able to scale quickly by pooling all their resources under one roof. They commissioned a MIT study, for instance, that found that 20 to 40 percent of the average home goes to waste.
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    John Swain
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    Maryland Breezehouse Breezespace

    That—and $200 million in funding—has allowed them to start offering bigger homes, but not necessarily at bigger prices, this year.
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    Maryland Breezehouse

    They’ve also figured out how to efficiently fold more complicated housing designs, like Southwest and modern farmhouse styles, and gabled roofs.
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