When she started her search for a house, Amy Balicki didn’t set out to buy a Sears kit home in Downers Grove, Illinois – but she probably should have. That’s because Downers Grove was a prime location ...

A finished home built in North Lawrence by Lawrence-based CT Design and Development. The home was built as a "pre-fab kit" using a three-step process from Buildsmart, and Connor Treanor, a principal ...

Does It Come With Free Shipping? Did you know you can buy a new house online? For as little as $500 you can buy the plans for a DIY kit home that you can finish to your own specs. If you've got more ...

Vermont homebuilder New Frameworks is constructing prefabricated homes ranging from 300 to 1,200 square feet using sustainable straw structural panels. The "Casitas Line" offers kit or turnkey options ...

As Sears stores close around the country, the longtime retailer’s legacy may be a catalog item it stopped selling in the 1940s: home kits. Estimates from the Sears Archives website suggest the company ...

Sears is no longer the retailer it once was, having been beaten to the brink of irrelevance by outlet closures and online competition. But just about anyone over 40 remembers the company’s trusty, ...

Daniel Goltzman in front of his Burlington home, which may be a Sears, Roebuck & Co. kit house Credit: James Buck When architect Daniel Goltzman bought his home in the Five Sisters neighborhood of ...