Austin builder unveils sleek prefab luxury homes for $600K and up

A Buda homebuilder has introduced a large-close tactic to a form of housing that has generally been lumped into the small-conclusion classification.

Escobedo Group has launched a “panelized” development process that allows a luxury house to be prefabricated and then installed on a homesite inside about 5 months. So significantly, much more than 70 of the company’s DARIO Villas houses have been constructed.

Above the yrs, prefab building has routinely been linked with inexpensive, mass-produced housing. Subsequent Environment War II, the British embraced prefab design to tackle a critical housing scarcity. Amid the 19th century’s California Gold Rush, prospectors relied on prefab houses to quickly present shelter.

In latest years, prefab properties have obtained supporters as construction approaches have developed much more innovative.

“DARIO is a greater way to construct. The development approach we have created is more productive and radically lessens building squander when preserving the consumer the most precious commodity — their time,” David Escobedo, co-proprietor of Escobedo Team, tells CultureMap.

Escobedo Group, started in 1987, official launched the DARIO brand in June.

DARIO touts the potential to assemble and assemble a residence in a subject of months fairly than, in some situations, a handful of a long time.

A customer can pick out from amid 3 ground designs with one particular, two, or 3 bedrooms, and then select an interior bundle. A just one-bedroom DARIO household starts off at $600,000. Larger sized alternatives go for $1 million or a lot more.

A DARIO home measures any place from 800 to 20,000 sq. toes.

Escobedo constructs the dwelling panels at its 60,000-sq.-foot facility in Buda, then delivers them to a homesite and places together the new household in several hours. The panels include all of the elements essential for a home, these kinds of as the plumbing, electrical, and HVAC techniques. Each house functions steel framing and a pier-and-beam basis.

Optional add-ons consist of:
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Roof-mounted solar power - 
Battery storage to offer electrical energy through ability outages - 
Eco-pleasant h2o selection, storage, and filtration

The conclusion merchandise appears like any constructed-from-the-ground-up luxurious residence you may possibly location together Lake Austin, at Lake Travis, or in West Lake Hills.

Escobedo’s DARIO houses are at the moment obtainable in Texas, Colorado, and Oklahoma. The corporation says they can be placed in very a lot any household placing, from a rural ranch to a cliffside locale.

“Whether you need to have a new visitor home, getaway retreat, or expanded residing space, this is certainly revolutionizing the way setting up is finished. The issues and mess of development are a matter of the previous,” the homebuilder says.
