The Origin series comes in three different sizes – 24 feet, 36 feet and 48 feet long, and has a number of different options for floorplans, including two bedroom homes, mother in-law apartments, media rooms, artist studios, and more. Units can be utilized in a modular fashion and can be combined to create a larger space connected by decks and pergolas. You could create a whole prefab compound of these Origin buildings to suit your style or your needs as each one can be built with your choice of flat, shed or gable roof.
Bill Haney, the founder of Blu Homes, built this three unit addition in Wayland, Massachusetts to provide his family with more space and let him and his wife work from home. The cluster is composed of an art studio, photo studio, and media room with galvalume siding and sliding cedar sun shades on the exterior and radiant floor heating and bamboo flooring on the inside. A month was all it took to build the home in the factory and on site construction only took a few days. The Origin studio starts at $82,000 and the Origin home starts at $109,000.
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Blu Homes has a wide range of prefab options and one of their most versatile options is their Origin series based on a simple rectangular prefab structure with multiple sizes and interior floor plan configurations. The prefab manufacturer recently put a
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The three unit home addition is located in Wayland, MA and serves as an artist studio, photo studio and media room for Blu Homes’ founder, Bill Haney’s family.
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The home addition uses three Origin structures, each with a different floorplan and furnished inside with bamboo flooring.
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The Origin line has been updated from its previous design and now includes LED lighting, standard radiant floor heating and options for cedar sunshades, trellises, sliding door shades and a roofdeck.
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Origin buildings start out at $82,000 for the studio and
the Origin home starts at $109,000.
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All of the Blu Homes are designed for energy efficiency, natural daylighting, and healthy interiors.
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Homes are manufactured in their MA factory and then folded, flat-packed and shipped to the site.
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This particular home took one month to build in the factory and coincided with the site work prep. After the home was shipped to the site, construction and installation took only a few days.
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The Haneys’ art studio and addition was finished on the exterior with galvalume siding and sliding cedar shades.
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A fun addition to the home is the spiral staircase and a roof top deck, which make excellent use of an often unused space.
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This is the floorplan for the largest size of the Origin homes and includes two bedrooms and one bathroom.
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Energy efficient design and healthy home interiors are part of every Blu Home.
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The Origin series is designed to be Blu’s most versatile design and can be built with flat, shed or gable roof.
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Multiple buildings can be joined together to create larger compounds or modern homes.
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