The cottage style is a unique home fashion because it is hard to define, yet easy to recognize. Flowing fabrics, white furniture, overstuffed seating, aged patinas, and worn wood are often used to achieve an intimate style. Fortunately, this 1979 charming cottage style manufactured home has them all! Romantic, charming, and comfortable could be used … Read more
Simple updates with calm color and white trim can make a huge impact in any home, but it works marvelously in a manufactured home. There’s no kitschy trends or bold colors here! It’s just a serene space that allows the home to shine on its own merits, and this manufactured home makeover certainly shines! This … Read more
Please welcome our guest, Jay from trailertrove.com, a new website about mobile and manufactured homes, called Trailertrove.com. Jay’s interest in mobile home data and history inspired him to want to start the new blog and we always need more mobile home resources so please support him. Much is made- and rightfully so- about the biased … Read more
The Paradise Cove Mobile Home Park in Malibu, California is unique. The 72-acre oceanfront community is rich in history and sits atop a bluff overlooking the Pacific. It has 257 manufactured homes of all makes and models, some are simple like the modern single wide makeover we recently featured, and some are not so simple, like … Read more
We continue our RV and Camper Decor Series with this DIY nature-themed RV design. Previously, we enjoyed the Ginter’s gorgeous camper makeover. Humble Beginnings This RV design was found on the Rate My Space blog and started out with the typical oak veneer and lightly patterned walls that we’ve seen throughout the last decade or so, … Read more
In the famous mobile home community of Paradise Cove, CA on a hill overlooking the Pacific Ocean sits a blue and grey mobile home that has been given a colorful Malibu mobile home makeover. The designer used paint in ways we haven’t seen on a vintage single wide mobile home. The one bedroom, 500 square … Read more
In the mountains of British Columbia, Canada sits a single wide mobile home that has been remodeled using an increasingly popular material for home design and decor, sheet metal. This sheet metal single wide mobile home remodel is so unique and innovative. Gina, the owner of this beautiful single wide, has a great blog called … Read more
Endless potential. ‘Endless potential‘ is the phrase that best describes single wide mobile homes. You can transform them into any type of home and that point is proven with this Texas trailer remodel. The owners had the single wide trailer, as the architect called it, sitting on a 300-acre heritage farm in Texas for years, … Read more
We’ve previously covered 6 Tips For A Smooth Manufactured Home Purchase. You may have all the hardest decisions made but your manufactured home buying experience isn’t over. All new manufactured homes have a builder-backed manufactured home warranty that is a minimum of one-year long and you need to take full advantage it. In this article, we … Read more
Mobile Homes of the Past is a little info-graphic I put together that highlights some styles of each era and lists quotes about the homes. I love to read about the history of mobile homes and I have much respect for the people that fought for the homes, such as Elmer Frey, president of Marshfield … Read more
There were some truly unique mobile homes in the past. Some made sense. Some didn’t. Most unique mobile homes have one thing in common – they were created by dreamers trying to solve a problem and they may have worked had they not been before their time. The need for affordable housing is never ending. Land … Read more
Environmentally Friendly Houses – A True Trash to Treasure Tale of a Mobile Home Manufactured homes have always been a leader in the environmentally friendly building. Factory construction limits delays and allow precise control of inventory and material handling. Related: Manufactured Homes are Earth Friendly! While buying a new manufactured home is a great way to reduce … Read more