Rollin', Rollin', Rollin'

(Note:  I’m about ½ done with this post and Nate Berkis came on the TV in the background - isn’t he doing “painting 101”!  Topic of the day ...

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Painting

When you build your new modular home, your dealer will be back in one year to check on your home, and because of the house settling, they wi...

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Happy Memorial Day!

Patio Installation - am I nuts?

This is how I roll:  (Okay, I don't roll, I usually stumble, but anyway...) I'm walking through Home Depot with my man.  We are ther...

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Porch Railings...

Day two of staining the porch railings on our new modular home, and it is coming along.  After two full days of work, with the stain scented...

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Staining the front porch railings, finally!

There's no getting around it.  We've complained and procrastinated - our front porch railings still need to be stained.  Here it is ...

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Modular Home Extensions or Additions

No hair extensions here, only house extensions!  In the housing world, you may have the option of building a modular addition to your existi...

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Air Conditioning

Yesterday I was sitting in my office writing about how I’m not particularly fond of Air Conditioning.  I like the windows open and the smell...

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Ceiling Fans

One of the options we chose not to include in our modular home was central air conditioning.  We do have a furnace, so if we decide we need...

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Tray Ceilings

Look up!  Isn't that what your mother always told you? Oh, no, that was stand up straight, anyway...  The ceiling is sometimes referred ...

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My Modular Home Pictures

I took a couple of pictures to show you some of the changes we made to the specifications or inclusions in our modular home: This is the fro...

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Modular home inclusions

When you have chosen the modular home you are most interested in, your dealer will more than likely be happy to accommodate any changes you ...

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Prefab Home by IKEA

Have you seen the Aktiv, prefab home for sale that was in the news a couple of months ago?  Aktiv is being marketed as 'your own persona...

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Hot Water Heaters

As I sit here, cup of coffee in hand, eating my breakfast of leftover mac ‘n’ cheese ( I know ), I realize I still need to address hot water...

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Porches and Decks

I love our covered front porch which we altered slightly from the original, which you can see at www.keymodularhomes.com .  (Our house is b...

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Mother's Day!

Happy Mother's Day to all of you moms out there! I spent part of today cleaning up the front porch and hanging my (new) hanging baskets....

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Do you want a garage?

Furthermore, do you want an attached garage or a detached garage? The position of your home or lot has some bearing on your decision.  Your ...

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Will our yard ever be the same???

I also mentioned that after the foundation was all set, our yard look like something out of "Apocalypse Now"!  So, although I was ...

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Choose your Foundation

This single most exciting day during the whole process of building our modular home was the day I arrived at our property and the foundation...

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What the heck is a perc test?

After we bought our land and decided we wanted to build a modular home, we realized the land did not have a valid perc test and therefore, w...

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Permits and Sewers and Wells, OH MY!

Today I’m thinking about some very important issues that you will need to be thinking about too, because, I’ll be honest, they could cost yo...

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Get your credit score up!

Maybe your credit isn’t so good, or maybe it is okay, but you’d like to make it better so you pay less interest on your modular home constru...

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Modular Home Financing 101

Modular homes are fairly cost-effective to build, however, most of us are going to need financing to realize our dream home! Compared with t...

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