Ever had a few too many and stumbled up the stairs of your home only to find yourself staring at your neighbor’s identical front door?  Could happen to anybody, right?  With identical, cookie-cutter McMansions proliferating like mosquitoes in a pup tent it’s no wonder America is becoming the land of conformity and home of the bland – another unfortunate reality, many of those big, boxy McMansions are poorly constructed, energy sucking enemies of the environment.   No style and no substance.

Well who would have thought that a modular home might provide an eco-friendly solution to suburbia’s lack of identity, New World Home and Hearst Magazines announced today a partnership for the Country Living Collection of historically inspired “country” modular homes that feature USGBC LEED® certification.

Moving forward by looking back – New World Home – a developer of sustainable housing, has created a line of new green modular homes that are a convergence of historically inspired design, next generation green products and practices and a highly efficient manufacturing process. New World’s  New Old Green Modular, or NOGM, home platform will now feature The Country Living Collection, a series of home designs that will offer homeowners classic, American style in a high performance home that exceeds the building industry’s most stringent green standards.  Goodbye big box.

“The Country Living Green Modular Home Collection offers a range of historically inspired designs that reflect the comfortable, warm and inviting style found in the pages of the magazine. Interior and exterior details hand-selected by the editors of Country Living include signature elements such as open floor plans, porches, fireplaces and oversized windows.”

The homes in the Country Living Green Modular Home Collection range from 1,100 to 2,300 square feet with an average price of $150-$200 per square foot ($165,000-$460,000) excluding land and site costs. Every home can be customized on demand and typically move-in ready, less than 100 days from the start of production.

“New World Home utilizes a proprietary whole-systems design approach to building science that integrates state-of-the-art products and practices from around the world. As a result, homeowners will reduce overall energy consumption by more than 50%, save thousands of gallons of water per year and enjoy superior indoor air quality over an average code-built house,” says Tyler Schmetterer, co-founder of New World Home.

New World Home is currently producing a Country Living Design Center, the first of the collection, in the New York tri-state area scheduled to open in summer 2010.

source: new world home