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Re:Amazon sells a kit for a 2600 sqft house by notus on Tuesday October 15, 2019 @09:57PM (#21266288)
Kit houses have been around for the past 100 years at least, I'm willing to bet the ones from 100 years ago are better quality than the ones now.
Re:Amazon sells a kit for a 2600 sqft house by seanmcdirmid on Tuesday October 15, 2019 @10:20PM (#21266437)
Sears used to offer houses in their famous catalog.

MUJI sells little kit houses in its Ginza flagship store (actually they sell them online as well https://www.muji.com/jp/mujihut/en.html).

Re:Amazon sells a kit for a 2600 sqft house by notus on Tuesday October 15, 2019 @10:49PM (#21266591)
Kind of unrelated but MUJI has pretty nice clothing, it's minimalist, well priced, and good quality.
Re:Amazon sells a kit for a 2600 sqft house by drocer88 on Tuesday October 15, 2019 @10:10PM (#21266379)
Re:Amazon sells a kit for a 2600 sqft house by User23 on Tuesday October 15, 2019 @10:15PM (#21266408)
One of my good friends lives in one. There is even a little shed in the back yard that was the living quarters while her grandparents built the place.
Re:Amazon sells a kit for a 2600 sqft house by shantly on Tuesday October 15, 2019 @11:02PM (#21266665)
As in Buster Keaton's "One Week", which also features one of the greatest and most enviable marriages in all of cinema.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xd6ddOlbKp8

Re:Amazon sells a kit for a 2600 sqft house by mc32 on Tuesday October 15, 2019 @10:10PM (#21266377)
Yeah, that was Sears Roebuck's wheelhouse for some time. They actually looked pretty good in the catalogs; though I'm not aware of having been in one knowingly. Though I wouldn't be surprised if I have been in one.
Re:Amazon sells a kit for a 2600 sqft house by ghaff on Tuesday October 15, 2019 @10:16PM (#21266417)
This 99pi episode discusses them https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/the-house-that-came-i...

Apparently there aren’t a lot at least in anything like their original form.

Re:Amazon sells a kit for a 2600 sqft house by jweir on Tuesday October 15, 2019 @10:22PM (#21266448)
I live in a Sears house from 1912. My house was rebuilt 10 years ago though and an extra floor added. All my neighbors have pretty much the original design though. They are pretty sweet little houses with a tiny drive way. Maybe a Model T could have fit down it - but no modern car can.
Re:Amazon sells a kit for a 2600 sqft house by joe_the_user on Tuesday October 15, 2019 @10:27PM (#21266469)
I lived in Sears house for about a year in the 1990s. It seemed like a fine house. It turned into a punk house at that point and the plumbing couldn't hold up to that but I suspect with normal use it would have been fine for a while longer.