Johnston's firm has won awards for traditionally built custom homes and has recently designed and completed its first custom prefab home. VB: What would you say are the main benefits of a prefab home? HJ: Done right, a prefab home can be greener, it can be less expensive (although we as an industry haven't really figured out how to do this at the same level of quality as a custom home). However the main benefit is that it is less hassle. The construction time is shorter, you spend less time on the site, and there's less guesswork and mid-construction changing involved. Above: The facade of a panelized prefab design by PLACE Architects, done in one of three models that the firm offers.

The zone in front of the garage is just as important as, say, the garage door or where the garage is located relative to the house. An increasingly popular approach is to use a drivable grass surface, be it a product that is hidden beneath the blades or incorporating grass between pavers. Grass paving allows water that would normally run into the street and sewer to enter the ground and be naturally filtered. Here grass is found next to the garage, at the bottom of a more traditional driveway.

The house was assembled onsite from a kit in a little more than seven months. This image shows the two-car garage with Sam's office above, the natural wood shiplap siding and the chartreuse HardiePanel — all low-maintenance materials that were carefully detailed to resist the elements gracefully. "Sam's home office above the garage is a real workplace for him. He telecommutes some days of the week, which saves on his commute time and gas and gives him more time with his family," says Johnston.

Exterior

Modern design

Not sure the color

Siding

Roof

Driveway

drive way with plugs of grass

Exterior wall option

roofline

Border

color combo

carriage

Prefab

Hardy panels

drivable grass and garage idea

Outside

Shop exterior style

garaaaaaage door

Color

Like the wood combo.

Idée de garage chalet

garage doors and angles

Panel install

Garage addition

siding, roof lines

Interesting

opposite roof pitch

modern

double slant roof pretty cool

gravel and flagstone look

possible 2 story garage look

green!

new 2 car garage roof + modified master bedroom roof?

Love it all

siding

board and batten siding

Beau

knotty cedar

Siding

roof

Like this style

The idiosyncrasy of the lines and angles, and the color.

Hardi panel

Driveway to garage

Siding

Hardie paneling

Color

Painted hardy

I want a garage door like that!

prefab

Garage door

room above garage

roof line

Frosted plexi garage doors. Gets more light, keeps the function.

Hardie

Cute

Sexy siding option

hardie panel

Interesting

Cedar and aluminum

Look at green tag. These are hardi panels

Coloured panels

siding

Love the grass pavers in front of the garage

extension

Hardie Panel detailing in a modern application

Textures

Wish those garage doors were cheap we have to find demos

For garage addition

Roof line

Love roof lines

Like the fun vibe

the colour selection and combination

Smart house

Painted Hardie panels possibility?

Garage doors

like this garage

excellent garage / separate space.

sideways shed on garage?

Like the glass doors on the garage. Also, the grass in front of the garage is "driveable". Cool.

garage, vertical/horizontal interplay

Driveways

Cool

Nice n easy look

change in color in middle of house. likely james hardie block and james hardie vertical siding

glass doors

roof angles

Tis has the illusion of an attached roof and it could work like this if it was and look good.

cool look on the house

Siding, grass driveway, rooflines

conflicting roof lines

Stone below, color for 2nd story

Love this exterior

Revêtement ext.

Color

natural novely siding

This looks fun!

House

great use of the wood

rock wall + black rock + pavers?

Great slope on garage roof and do I spy a 2nd floor? Love the idea and would love to be able to do that with my garage!

top of garage is nice, could replace the metal

Z

Clopay Avante Collection aluminum frame garage dor with frosted glass panels.

scaping

This prefab design would be great for the Ashland project

cool to the eyes

Nice.

garage is not attached to house and in law suite is over garage

Note the two sloping roofs. Could do on house + garage? One roof slopes one way, the other slopes the opposite. Also like the use of mixed materials/colors on the exterior for texture and variety

very pretty

Surface and lines

Panels

Beautiful windows and entrance

painted hardie panels

garage addition, counterpoint to house

Concrete drive with gravel edging

Shows painted hardie panels

I like the bamboo mix

le revetement extérieur JamesHardie

garage n storage with staircases from inside

Interesting presentation

House facade

Blend of siding styles

separate roofs with differing pitch

Exterior siding mix

Drive way cool

garage doors

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The design of the room above and the garage ?

depth given with different materials

taller encima garaje

exterior

Roof line

funky fun siding

roof

Flat Roofs

Seattle house

opposing rooflines

I like the color and architecture.

J

Grass driveway, man

Two toned green grid and wood. Grass paving allows water that would normally run into the street and sewer to enter the ground and be naturally filtered.

roof lines. create space over carport or 2 storyish/loft poolhouse

angles. varied heights

garage siding

Texture/color

garage

love the lines of the garage for a shop

upper level

Grass

allows permeable ground cover, love the shape of the rooves

Garage Addition

painted hardie panels

House

like the window garage doors

shed style garage

This is love to me...my house would look similar to this

Garage 2nd story

like crushed rock border along driveway

Garage suite more ace with single roof line

like garage doors

roof lines

An increasingly popular approach is to use a drivable grass surface, be it a product that is hidden beneath the blades or incorporating grass between pavers. Grass paving allows water that would normally run into the street and sewer to enter the ground and be naturally filtered. Here grass is found next to the garage, at the bottom of a more traditional driveway.

Pre-fab?

Garage

Mix of pavers and concrete

Like the painted hardy

garage apt

Green...siding

I like everything!

Chris studio over garage

driveway, angled roof

t&g pine siding

Modern Garage

canada

Hardie

Cedar garage with suite

grass leading to garage

roof angles

just had to add this picture becasue there are somany things i like about it. and wood panelling can look good mixed with somethign else.

Garage

Design

kick a wa prefab

i like how the drive stops before house so that home sits in a field of green

rooflines

Green

Garage door and roof

Roof line shed

sloped roof

pre fab homes

Roofs

Love that garage!

hardi panels

Garage roof lines

Roof