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11 Exterior Prefab Building Type Design Photos And Ideas

In a family’s pint-size lake retreat in Austin, Texas, ipe siding and decking meet concrete floors and steeland-glass windows. Stained cyprus was used for the ceiling and soffit. The custom barn-style sliding door conceals the family’s collection of giant inner tubes and other boating equipment. Photo by: Kimberly Davis

Each prefabricated unit is covered in aluminum but built from SIPS: Structurally Insulated Panels that consist of thick insulation sandwiched between plywood panels. These high-performance panels keep the interior protected from the desert's ambient heat.

A prefabricated lakeside New Jersey retreat is one woman's outdoorsy counterpoint to city life.

Architect Charlie Lazor opted for a wash of black on the prefab cabin he designed on Madeline Island, Wisconsin.

In the seaside New Zeeland surf town of Onemana Beach, is a plywood clad prefab vacation home with vertical timber battens finished in Resene’s Lumbersider Foam paint.

Futuristic yet traditional, this little prefab holiday retreat in the western coast of Scotland makes a bold mark using zinc and plywood.

The back view of the

At the end of a steep driveway, off a road less graveled, await the happy innkeepers: Chris Brown, Sarah Johnson, and Michael and Joshua, two of their three sons.

New pine and spruce wood from the Pyrenees (both recyclable and PEFC certified) were selected for the façade of the 1,000-square-foot prefab. Smart blinds cover the windows, rigged to open and close depending on the weather forecast.

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