About Us

Mobile Home Living is America’s most popular resource for mobile home remodeling and decorating ideas. We share expert advice on mobile home improvement, repair, buying, selling, and, well, living.

We’re so glad you’re here and hope you join our little mobile home movement. We are Mobile Home Living and we are mobile home proud!      

About the Creator of Mobile Home Living

Hello!  I’m Crystal Adkins, the creator of Mobile Home Living. Thank you so much for stopping by! I hope Mobile Home Living is a welcoming and informative resource for you and I hope it makes you feel proud of your factory-built home. You should be proud be proud of your home!

For the last 15 years, I’ve tried to share all the great things about manufactured housing and provide helpful articles that make remodeling, repairing, and decorating your home easier.

It’s no secret that the 18 million people living in factory-built homes in the US have been stereotyped and/or completely neglected by all the major media outlets. That’s why I take the advocacy of manufactured homes so seriously. All of us living in manufactured homes deserve the same respect given to traditional homeowners.

About Crystal Adkins

I was raised in southern West Virginia by a single father that worked as a miner operator in the same underground coal mine for 39 years. Yes, I’m a coal miners daughter named Crystal Gail (all ya’ll country music fans should get that reference)! I have a 22 year old daughter named Livingston Grace that is a store manager for an Auto Zone in South Carolina. I met my soulmate in 2024 and said yes when he popped the big question in August 2025.

Why I started Mobile Home Living

 

I started MHL after my ex-husband and I bought a 1978 single wide in Oak Hill, WV in 2010. I wanted to get ideas to update our new home so I searched online for mobile home remodeling ideas but didn’t find much at all.

I saw a void and have been trying to fill it. I think learning over 18 million Americans live in a factory-built home fueled a fire – I still don’t understand how millions of people can get completely overlooked by mainstream media?

The first problem to overcome was my complete and total ignorance about websites, blogging, and, well, the internet in general.

I didn’t know html or php or how websites even worked at first but somehow Mobile Home Living evolved into the most popular manufactured home repair, remodeling, and decorating resource online. It’s not all fluff either – this is a respected and trusted resource.

Press

My articles have been cited in publications from ivy league universities like Harvard and Stanford.

US Federal Government Agencies like HUD and Fannie Mae cite our articles often. You can find more information on our Press page.

Our 1978 Single Wide Mobile Home Makeover

Here’s the mobile home that started it all in Oak Hill, West Virginia before a very affordable makeover. I still have a lot of work but I don’t have a mortgage and that’s allowed me to travel and give my daughter a decent childhood.

  We built the deck quickly after we moved in:

Then we painted the siding, you can read about here. We have lot more great plans!

  Here’s our living room now. I joke that my favorite style is ‘Pinterest’ cause there’s just so many great ideas there!

 Izzy, the Boston Terrier wonder dog, is a sweetheart!   The kitchen needs a lot more work. New paint and floors made a huge improvement.

  We have about a half an acre on the outskirts of a small WV town. Here’s our backyard:

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Our front yard and neighbor:

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Mobile Home Living’s Mission

The mission of MHL is simple – to provide mobile and manufactured home remodeling and decorating ideas, home improvement help, and other relevant information for all makes and models of factory-built homes. Affordable housing is needed more than ever and these homes are not the tin-cans that some people think of – they are real homes built with the same framing and roofing that stick-built homes have. They just happen to be placed on a steel chassis with wheels.

Summary

I hope Mobile Home Living has helped by giving you inspiration, tips, or ideas for your own mobile home update or remodel. If you don’t own a manufactured home, I hope it’s given you a closer look at the homes and a better understanding of them. I want Mobile Home Living to become the go-to site for all things mobile and manufactured home. I would love for us to start a movement that shows the world what real mobile home living is all about. We can get rid of those stupid stereotypes and stigmas once and for all! I would greatly appreciate it if you told your friends and family about us and share our articles on your favorite social media. Also, I’m always looking for homes to feature so please allow me to share your mobile or manufactured home remodels and makeovers, whether it be the whole home or just a room. Just email me at crystaladkins@mobilehomeliving.org Thank you so much! I’m so glad you found us and I look forward to hearing from you!  

Thank you so much!