Texas builder unveils sleek prefab luxury homes starting at $600,000

A Texas homebuilder has introduced a large-finish method to a type of housing that has normally been lumped into the very low-finish group.

Escobedo Group, dependent in Buda, a suburb of Austin, has introduced a “panelized” building program that enables a luxurious household to be prefabricated and then mounted on a homesite in just approximately five months. So significantly, far more than 70 of the company’s DARIO Villas homes have been developed.

Above the a long time, prefab development has usually been related with cheap, mass-made housing. Following Globe War II, the British embraced prefab development to deal with a significant housing lack. Amid the 19th century’s California Gold Rush, prospectors relied on prefab properties to rapidly offer shelter.

In current decades, prefab households have received followers as development tactics have grown a lot more subtle.

“DARIO is a superior way to construct. The building technique we have designed is much more efficient and radically minimizes design squander even though preserving the client the most important commodity — their time,” David Escobedo, co-owner of Escobedo Group, tells CultureMap.

Escobedo Team, launched in 1987, official introduced the DARIO brand name in June.

DARIO touts the capacity to build and assemble a household in a matter of months instead than, in some scenarios, a couple many years.

A customer can select from amid a few flooring designs with just one, two, or a few bedrooms, and then find an inside offer. A one particular-bedroom DARIO household starts at $600,000. Greater alternatives go for $1 million or much more.

A DARIO property steps anyplace from 800 to 20,000 square toes.

Escobedo constructs the property panels at its 60,000-square-foot facility, then provides them to a homesite and places together the new house within hours. The panels include all of the factors wanted for a property, these types of as the plumbing, electrical, and HVAC systems. Each home capabilities metal framing and a pier-and-beam basis.

Optional incorporate-ons incorporate:
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Roof-mounted photo voltaic ability - 
Battery storage to supply electrical power in the course of electric power outages - 
Eco-welcoming drinking water assortment, storage, and filtration

The stop product or service is smooth and contemporary, like any crafted-from-the-ground-up luxurious home.

Escobedo’s DARIO homes are now readily available in Texas, Colorado, and Oklahoma. The corporation states they can be positioned in fairly substantially any household environment, from a rural ranch to a cliffside locale.

“Whether you need a new guest home, getaway retreat, or expanded dwelling room, this is certainly revolutionizing the way constructing is finished. The complications and mess of construction are a matter of the previous,” the homebuilder suggests.