Andy Lien

It’ s time metformin weight loss buy to dig deep and contribute to the Andy Wants a Prefabricated Home Fund.

I’m not kidding.

I’m a big nerd for buildings and architecture.  My mother is an artist and my father designed all of the homes in which I lived as a kid.  I guess it’s in my blood.  Nature and nurture.  My brother would read books like Cathedral when we were kids and I have known what “cantilever” means ever since.  We’re bona fide buffs.  While touring Glensheen Mansion as a lass, I was the annoying kid running to the front of the crowd as it moved from room to room…asking way too many questions.  In fact, much of my memories of family vacations are not of riding amusement park rides, but of touring historical sites, buildings, and hotels.

I would fantasize about my own dream home as a youngster (okay…I still do) and I was bent on having one room per design period.  An Art Deco kitchen with sea green appliances.  An Adirondack living room anchored with heavy and dark beams.  A Colonial parlor for my lace tatting.  A Prairie Style foyer with stained glass in the ceiling (I blame the Minneapolis Institute of Arts for that one).  A nineteenth-century steel and glass conservatory for my morning coffee.  A Palace of Versailles “Hall of Mirrors” music room so that I could host recitals by all of my talented friends.  A farmhouse wraparound porch to rock away the evenings (with all the mosquitoes).  A Victorian turret like the ones of the houses on magical Mackinac Island.  An artist space designed by Bohlin Cywinski Jackson for ease-to-clean and plenty of light.  Indoor and outdoor pools to rival that of William Randolph Hearst.  A stone entryway for all of my prestigious guests.  A scenic building site on which to place my modest abode.  I could go on and on.

If you followed the links, you’d see that there’s quite an eclectic mish-mash of styles that, together, would make for quite an ugly house.  Let’s all thank our lucky stars that I cannot count myself as a member of the nouveau riche…as I’d probably go ahead and build the sucker.  Tasteless conspicuous consumption.  What you may have also noticed is that there’s nary a bit of modern in that list.  I am not a fan of the austere aesthetic.  Hard, minimalist lines are not my style.  Everything-customized-to-fit-my-every-whim-and-want is.

Therefore, I am stymied as to why I have taken such a shine to this baby.

Rocio Romero' s LV metformin hydrochloride Series Home - Image from www.rocioromero.com

Here’s the website for the LV Series…go to it.  Explore it.  Have fun with it.  Buy me one. Preferably not in the color of “Tropical Patina,” though.

I really want one.  Heavens, I work for an architect.  Why would I want a prefabricated house that comes in a kit?

It’s cheap…well, materials-wise it is.  If I were to get the LVL (3 bedroom, 2 bathroom) with the LVG (garage), the kit would be around $65,000.  I’d have to buy a lot that is conducive to the house and hire the labor to put it all together…but it’d still be a far easier-to-handle mortgage than for a house, even in this market.  And, since it’s prefab, not modular (prefab is assembled on site, modular is assembled at a plant), it qualifies for a traditional mortgage.  It’s green.  It’s interesting for the eye to behold.  It has plenty of windows for light and air flow.  Its floors are Pergo which are very crucial when the home is inhabited by a dog.  There aren’t millions of options from which to choose.  It would look great on the banks of a lake.  And, buying one would be supporting a young, female architect.  Rah.

Mostly, I think that because I can’t have my Mutt House (detailed in the paragraph of ridiculous links), I want to have nothing that even resembles it.

So, until the Winchester Mystery House is affordable, I think I’ll pass the hat and aim for the LVL, instead.