This weekend (September 28-30, 2012) is the 37th annual Knoxville Home Show presented by Clayton Homes. Clayton offers 19 models at the Home Show. It’s free, open to the public and has an on the spot financing company there to help anyone ready to purchase a home. They’ve also incorporated a […]
Canadian prefabricated home manufacturer, Habitaflex, is a leader in pre-fab building. These homes are factory built and hauled in with a trailer, giving them the same basic design as our own manufactured homes. They do have great layouts and exterior embellishments which gives us a great way to get inspired and […]
Developing an eclectic mobile home is bold and pleasant-looking, when done correctly. The first person who came up with the term “eclectic” is presumed to be Johan Joachim Winckelmann. He essentially painted paintings that combined classical tradition with elements from the Renaissance, creating an eclectic painting that coined the phrase today […]
Living in a manufactured home has many great benefits. Yet, like any home, we need to take the steps to secure our home and its belongings. When most people think of security systems they think of a fairly expensive system with monitoring but you don’t have to go through a lot […]
Ansel Easton Adams (February 20, 1902 – April 22, 1984) Ansel was an American photographer and environmentalist, best known for his black-and-white photographs of the American West, especially in Yosemite National Park but he captured a serious called Life at Olympic Trailer Park, these 1939 trailer park photos captured life in […]
Electricity consumption is a major theme in our world now so it makes sense to want to reduce your electric bill. We understand that we must use less of it and that our dependency on our outdated grid system is not healthy. Energy reduction for manufactured homes can be accomplished with […]
Get some great holiday decorating ideas for your mobile home with this great article written by Sierra. Holiday Decorating Ideas for Your Mobile Home It’s hard to believe that fall time is almost here and with it will come all of your favorite holidays such as Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas. Even […]
Stumbled upon this modern single wide manufactured home on Pinterest. I like it and the reason I’m sharing it today is that it has such an unusual feature that I’ve not seen before; a secret in the kitchen that leads to a laundry room. The laundry room includes a half bath […]
Remember the overstuffed sofas? They were not made for a small single wide mobile home! My first home, outside of the college apartments I had been living in, was an older single wide right outside of Huntington, WV. I was attending Marshall University, working 2 jobs and had just married my […]
Tiny House Blog was one of the first blogs to feature mobile homes in a positive light. They were small by design and green by accident. Remodeling and updating them became the frugal shortcut to living well. Of all the things that could lift the trailer trash stereotype, being green and […]
Owning a top of the line vintage camper or mobile home, like a Spartan or AirStream, puts you in a very cool club. There’s a huge fan base driving online communities and blogs dedicated to them all. Restoring and decorating these wheeled wonders are all the rage. It’s a fad, a […]
This is a beautiful single wide makeover! Amy started her blog, Momma Hen’s Frugal Life, in 2010. It focuses on DIY, furniture, recipes and home decor within a budget. She has amassed a great little following and has had some of her work published in magazines and on some very popular blogs. She […]
What do you get when you combine an Airstream with an interior designer that had never been camping before? An Awesome Airstream, of course! Rachel Horn is a popular interior designer that co-owns Rachel Horn Interiors along with her husband and partner, Justin Kreizel. They were going to their first Burning […]
Cleopatra’s Trailer Sold at Auction! The 1963 film, Cleopatra, with Elizabeth Taylor, was a disaster by all measures. It was over budget, overproduced, and overacted and is considered one of the biggest flops in American film history and almost bankrupted 20th Century Fox. Still, it has its moments and can be […]