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An aerial view showcasing the home's secluded placement within the Greater World Community. Despite the property's remote setting, it is less than half-an-hour away from a number of activities, including skiing, biking, hiking, rafting, and rock climbing.

Since 1952, Pan Abode Cedar Homes has been designing prefabricated kit homes, operating out of Renton. Customers can either choose from existing plans or work with the design team to develop a custom unit. They have designed and shipped thousands of homes, ranging from small vacation cabins to larger luxury homes, and all are made out of cedar.

Timberland Homes is a custom home-builder, focusing on modular construction. Their homes range anywhere from more traditional in style to distinctly modern, and prices begin at $140 per square foot with quality standard finishes. Their controlled construction process has been perfected over the past 30 years, and all homes are crafted in their building center. Timberland Homes serves Alaska, Washington, and Oregon.

TLC Modular Homes is a family-owned-and-operated company located in Goldendale. Since 1999, they have completed projects in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and California, and have a wide selection of residential styles and sizes to accommodate customers' preferences and budget. They have their own factory for manufacturing the homes, and offer tours of the space.

Method Homes—also based in Seattle—builds prefab homes with unlimited customization. They work with local architects as well as their own to design sustainable prefabricated homes that can be built to obtain LEED, ENERGY STAR, Living Building Challenge, Passive House, and other environmental certification standards. They build off-site in a custom facility, and deliver throughout most of the United States, and even certain areas in Canada.

Floor plan of Bed-Stuy Loft by New Affiliates

Before: The 1930s cottage sat on a .34-acre lot in Berkeley, large for the neighborhood.

The main entrance is at the bright orange door. Sogno Design Group worked to preserve the site’s natural characteristics as much as possible, thus the addition “floats” over the landscape in places.

Walkways bridge over the site to disturb it as little as possible.

The stone slab forms a display niche in the cabinetry, and syncs up with the materials used elsewhere in the house. The step up, and the flooring material change, designates the boundary between foyer and the rest of the home.

Another view of how the white oak stairs wrap around to become the bench. Rogers wanted the simple interior material palette to both celebrate and gently contrast with the site’s features, becoming a backdrop for the “bark on the trees and the texture on the boulders.”

A Japanese soaking tub is positioned beneath a window to appreciate the site.

The primary bedroom windows frame up-close views of the boulders on the site.

Erica and her mom enjoy cooking together, and this kitchen makes that easy to do so, with an expanded footprint, leathered quartzite counters, and custom white oak cabinetry. Shoe storage was built-in by the exterior door, with a slim cupboard for cleaning supplies.

The new deck lets the owners glory in the incredible views.

A new office is wreathed in custom cabinetry, as well as a sitting and standing desk, and relishes the views. A pocket door fashioned after a Shoji screen enables privacy.

A cedar-clad ceiling emphasizes the dramatic volumes of the combined living spaces, and the windows bring in the “dappled light” from the trees, says Rogers. The new plan makes entertaining much easier for the couple, with easy flow from the interiors to the roof deck and yard.

Salem, Oregon-based Ideabox approaches prefabricated homes from a modern and sustainable point of view, seeking to build prefab residences that are beautiful, efficient, and affordable. With 9 basic types that can be customized, the homes start at 400-500 square feet and reach about 1,600 square feet. Each home is built with open-web engineered trusses, insulation with high R-values, dual pane low-e windows, and EnergyStar-certified appliances.