A bill passed by the Washington state Senate this week could make small manufactured kit homes a more common option for ...

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When a $1.1 million Craftsman house in Boulder, Colorado, was first built in 1923, the materials came from a Sears catalog kit that cost $1,797, or the equivalent of around $32,000 today. Even with ...

In 2003, Andrew Mutch was looking to buy a house for himself and his family. At the time, his friends, the previous owners, told him the house was a 1926 Sears "Hamilton" Kit House — which, at the ...

Adding two income-producing rentals or self-contained guest homes next to an existing house on a city lot continues to get easier in Oregon. Factory-made compact dwellings, complete with windows and ...

Over the decades, the kit homes ranged in price from $3,000 to $10,000 depending on the size, design and scope. The companies also sold garages, boilers, chicken coops, bathtubs and built-in shelving.