From http://www.blueskyhomes.net/
Pricing for turnkey, site-engineered, custom, high-performance Blue Sky Homes ranges from $220 to $320 per square foot. Your actual price will be based upon a number of factors, including location, size of the house, site topography, your choice of materials and finishes, and other variables:
Is that a single or double wide?
$300 bucks a square foot? …Gimme a break.
But it’s GREEN… recycled from curbside crap removal. Next up, made from recycled chinese plastics bwa ha ha .
BTW, does this glorified shipping container metal box also make it’s own water in the middle of the desert?
With minor modifications, you could stack them on top of each other and… Presto, instant correctional facility or FEMA camp on demand.
Where do the axles and shackles mount?
I’ll be a hundie that the first 2 commentors are contractors.
I personally find the designs appealing and forward-thinking.
I like the idea too, but didn’t know the cost when I was watching the video.
$220,000 to $320,000 for 1,000sf, plus the cost of the lot?
They need to figure how to sell them for $50,000. Or at least under $100,000.
There’s going to be a bigger market for used mobile homes. You can get those for $50,000 to $100,000.
It looks to me like a stick-built house using metal sticks and conventional post-and-beam construction with curtain walls. Don’t see much post-and-beam in modern residential construction. Put it on a slab rather than piers and it would be a very ordinary industrial building fitted out as a residence.
The example shown didn’t have enough cross bracing for earthquake country unless the roof is very light or the posts have much higher bending strength than I would expect. The thin steel structural members could be subject to corrosion failure.
Nothing wrong with it, but I don’t think I’ll make an offer.
Cool….but I agree with JTR…too expensive.
It looks like the frame on its own can be pretty cheap to acquire and build, but it’s in the FINISHING that the building costs can skyrocket out of control.
How much more for that fancy “recycled” counter top?
We looked at some of the recycled countertop about 1.5 yrs ago. It was at some place in Solana Beach down from the Belly Up, I forget the name. Gorgeous stuff, but it was priced at a hefty premium over non-recycled material. We ended up going with granite. Not sure why the recycled material was so much more expensive.