kit home
Ship-and-build house
A kit home is a prefabricated house sold as a package of materials—precut lumber, hardware, and plans—for assembly on site.
Popular in the early 20th century through mail-order catalogs, kit homes allowed buyers to build affordable housing with minimal construction expertise: They ordered a kit home from Sears and had it up in three months.
The term now includes modern modular and flat-pack housing options.
- prefabPre-assembled building
- modularMade of separable units
- flat packFurniture sold disassembled
- flatpackDisassembled goods for self-assembly
- assemblyConstructing from components
DIY · sweat equity · blueprint · floor plan · timber · frame · panels · foundation · building permit · construction · affordable · delivery · instructions · bolt · nail · pioneer · catalog · mail order
- houseshouse, bungalow, ranch, colonial, ranch house
- small dwellingstiny house, tiny houses, micro apartment, micro apartments, studio
- prefab constructionprefab, modular, flatpack, panelized, precast
- prefab homesprefab cabin, modular unit, double-wide, single-wide, double wide
- prefab structuresprefab house, prefab cabin, portable cabin, prefab, modular
- American housesranch, bungalow, colonial, Cape Cod, farmhouse