Lately, tiny homes have been all the rage, but once a family begins to grow, where does a homeowner go from there? Brian Gaudio, founder of building startup Module Housing, has an answer. His idea is to create a little house that can grow over time. The company’s one-bedroom starter home, the Nook house, runs for $212,000 and then over time instead of upgrading to a new larger home, they suggest buying additions to the existing one.
“We think of the home as a recurring revenue stream — buy a starter home today, purchase additions and upgrades in the future. All our homes are designed to change over time — as a homebuyer’s family grows, income grows or needs change,” he said. “We are capital-light compared to other prefab startups in that we don’t own the manufacturing facilities where our homes are built. We leverage existing network of high-performance prefab manufacturers on the East Coast.”
The service does it all: They offer multiple-room dwellings and work with you to order the modules, find land that lets you add on over time and assemble the houses. Like the Craftsman houses of old, you have a few basic styles, but in this case you can buy a one-bedroom Nook house for $212,000 and then add on over time instead of buying a house with seven rooms and realizing you only needed two.
Additional costs include building a foundation and land preparation. It’s also dead easy to add onto your house when you’re ready, said Gaudio, thanks to work they’ve done in modularizing the houses.
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