This is the only book that gives homeowners who are dreaming about building or planning to build a new home the good and the bad on all types of prefabricated houses. Shows that prefabricated can be mainstream traditional design and does not have to look like a mobile home or a modular Dwell box. Prefabulous describes the many systems available for prefabricating all or parts of a new home including timber frame and log as well as modular panelized structural insulated panels steel framing and concrete systems which are relatively new. Prefabulous describes these systems compares their advantages and disadvantages and shows beautiful examples of houses built using these techniques. Although all of these prefabricated houses look very different all of them were manufactured partially or almost completely in a controlled factory environment and transported to the home site to be erected. As a group these systems offer a faster more energy-efficient and sometimes more cost-efficient method of building. Includes a foreword by Not So Big House author Sarah Susanka who writes: For homeowners who want to know the options the advantages and disadvantages of those options and to see how those prefabricated parts come together into a good attractive home read this book.