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Pennsylvania-based builder Excel is offering five new affordable modular homes, including this one-bedroom Prairie-style design with 947 square feet.CAPTIONBy ExcelIf you want a new green home but are tight on cash, good news. the number of affordable, energy-efficient modular homes continues to increase as Pennsylvania-based builder Excel Homes offers a new line aimed at first-time buyers.
The homes in its “Starting Line up Series” are targeted to be sold for under $100,000, and depending on region, for as low as $60,000. They have less than 1,000 square feet, but with vaulted ceilings, sunken living rooms and hardwood floors, Excel Homes says they have all the style of larger homes.
The interior of the Prairie design offers a sunken living room, lots of natural light and hardwood floors.CAPTIONBy Excel”The word ‘design’ doesn’t have to be synonymous with larger homes and higher price tags. in fact, design has nothing to do with cost or size,” Steven Saffell, Director of Architectural Design and Innovation for Excel Homes, says in the announcement.
These homes join other small modular green homes with affordable price tags, such as Clayton Homes’ eHome, starting at $45,000, and Nationwide’s ECO Cottages, starting at $50,000.
Excel’s two-bedroom CAPTIONBy Excel Excel Homes, which has built 28,000 modular homes since its founding in 1984, is offering five designs that cannot be customized in its new line.
Among them is the two-bedroom, 771 square foot “Craftsman Bungalow,” shown to the right, that is inspired by the Sears kit homes of the 1940s and 1950s and the one-bedroom, 945 square “Prairie View,” evocative of the designs of Frank Lloyd Wright
The homes are built in sections – or modules – at its factories in Liverpool, Pa., and Marlboro, N.Y., and transported to a lot, where they are assembled on a foundation.
Within six weeks, Excel says it can build, deliver and set up the homes, which come with the government’s Energy Star label for energy efficiency. its prices do not include the cost of land. It can service much of the eastern half of the United States.
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