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Design Within Reach"A house is a tool," says Charlie Lazor, founder and former head of Blu Dot furniture.
"It should engender social opportunities, like making it easy to have friends over."
With that in mind, Lazor has combined crisp and airy modernist design with prefab efficiency to create the FlatPak house.
While other house kits come fully designed, a FlatPak home is exceedingly customizable-you pick the floor plan, number of storage units, number of stories, and so on, then it's manufactured, boxed, and shipped to you on a flatbed truck.
It takes six months to assemble, and cost runs from $140 to $210 per square foot-great for people who crave good design but lack the funds to hire Richard Meier.
Lazor, who lives with his family in the FlatPak prototype in Minneapolis, says current clients range from a theater director to a nonprofit administrator.
Six houses are now in the design phase, with more on the way.
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