Simple Modern Makeovers

Before and After shots below




From Find Your Style. Simple makeovers for rooms that lack a style or a design perspective. These show how easy it is to improve a space that's lacking.

mkSolaire Home

The mkSolaire has been designed to bring healthy living to the city. Designed by Michelle Kaufmann, known for smart, efficient prefab, this open, spacious, loft-like home has been created to offer healthy, clean and green city living and is perfect for an urban-infill lot, or anywhere, you may want a loft-like home. Through the use of strategically designed roofs and windows, this home is perfect for areas without open vistas and large lot sizes by sculpting light and air into the center of the home without loosing privacy.

The mkSolaire meets the Energy Star program standards for energy efficient homes and meets the performance standards of the American Lung Association Health House program. It is a high performance home that is insulated with an air-barrier, open cell foam insulation. All wood-to-wood framing joints are caulked, which makes the home airtight, energy efficient, and less likely to produce mold. It includes water-saving plumbing fixtures, on-demand water heaters, and a mechanical ventilation system that is 30% more efficient than typical forced-air systems.


Most important is it's look. It's an open, spacious plan while still maintaining an intimate feel. This is not a huge home that includes wasted space that is expensive to heat and cool. It's size is just right and it's pure modern with beautiful materials. Visit the web site for this and other MK designs.

The Spa At Nemacolin

With a mix of Asian and modern design, The Spa at Nemacolin Woodland Resort in Western Pennsylvania is not only a luxurious retreat, it's a wonderful design feast. You can take many of the ideas you'll see there and apply them to your personal space.

Fresh Look at a Stale Cottage

Living a modern lifestyle doesn't mean you have to buy a mid-century modern home or build a new one. This cottage redo goes to show that the bones of any home style can successfully have a modern injection. Bret Zamore and his fiancee Rene transformed this cottage style house in Houston into a cool combo of classic and modern. From Cottage Living.

A New Year of New Design, H-Haus

H-Haus models are showcases of intelligent home design for the 21st century. The architecturally modern home designs introduce elegant living paired with eco-friendly designs adopted from European housing standards to the American Market.

Luxurious spa bath, single and two-story living arrangements, double height entry, cook’s kitchen, roomy bedrooms, wrap around balconies and operable skylights are just some of many high-end standard features throughout the H-Haus models. Spacious plans provide maximum living and storage space in a small footprint that reduces land use.

From the rooftop to the interior floor coverings, these homes are constructed with materials that will reduce energy bills and conserve natural resources. The smart, efficient design offers solar heating, super-insulated walls and roofing, rainwater catchment, and wastewater recycling.

Pre Fabulous

Go modular with this expandable design. One room or a home. The MD 280 features a full kitchen, a separate bedroom, a living room and a bath. Ambient light is plentiful thanks to 9' floor-to-ceiling glass. The entire home fits on a single semi truck trailer and is very easy to transport and assemble. Fabulous.