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If you’re thinking of building a new home in Connecticut, you might consider a modular home. Homes constructed in modules and fabricated in off-site factories offer several benefits over their site-built equivalent, including a reduced construction timeframe and improved durability and cost-effectiveness.
To make your search easier, we’ve scoured the web and constructed this list of the best modular home builders in Connecticut that stand out from the rest.
So let’s get into specifics like company backstories, customization options, floor plans, and pricing for each of these esteemed companies.
Mod Squad
Starting our list off strong is Stamford’s Mod Squad. According to its website, the Mod Squad team comprises “architects, artisans, engineers, and builders.”
Mod Squad provides “a complete home building experience” with pre-build services and a full range of customization. In addition, it promises that the process is affordable, fast, contact-free, and, most notably, hassle-free.
What We Like
Mod Squad has a virtual showroom on its website that is worth looking into if you like what you’ve heard so far.
DBI Development
Founded in 1995, Norwalk’s DBI Development is a family-owned and operated company that builds prefab homes and remodels existing properties.
When you order a modular home from DBI, it will arrive 90 percent built, making the delivery process easier and more cost-effective. The DBI team will construct the remaining 10 percent of your modular home after delivery.
DBI says its “customization options are boundless,” which sounds great!
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You can select from single-story or two-story colonial homes as your base and customize everything from the utilities to the HVAC, interior, and exterior.
Other customization options include light fixtures, cabinetry, siding, windows, roofing, framing, and floor treatments.
Fuller Modular Homes & Offices
In Suffield, Fuller Modular Homes & Offices is led by Brian S. Young. The company builds custom homes in such styles as capes, ranches, two-stories, and multi-family. You can also commission Fuller Modular to build a vacation home or a commercial building.
The Fuller Modular team is picky about the materials it selects when constructing, favoring only high-quality materials.
Eco-conscious readers will appreciate that, according to Fuller, the company’s modular home construction process reduces waste by 10 percent compared to an on-site build.
The Fuller team builds energy-efficient homes in its climate-controlled facility to prevent frozen pipes, door swelling, and wall warping.
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If a floor plan by Fuller Modular Homes & Offices catches your eye, the team offers to arrange finance for your project.
Greenwich Modular, LLC
Greenwich Modular, LLC is based in Cos Cob. The construction company has architects who can draw up home plans—but if you have your own, Greenwich Modular will build them.
The Greenwich team utilizes floorplans associated with Signature Building Systems of PA LLC, Custom Building Systems LLC, and Simplex Homes.
Homes from Greenwich Modular pass the Energy Rating Index standards for energy efficiency. As a result, you may save more money on your monthly utility bills, and that’s always an awesome feeling!
What We Like
If you’re looking for turnkey home-building, select Greenwich Modular. The team can assist with obtaining a certificate of occupancy, plus it’ll work with you to get building permits.
Connecticut Modular Homes
Serving the New England area, Connecticut Modular Homes uses a three-step process when constructing its homes.
The first step entails planning your home and establishing a project timeline.
Next, you will choose your design, one of the many that Connecticut Modular Homes already offers, or a completely customized plan. You’ll also get a quote during this stage.
The third stage involves finalizing your design. Then, the Connecticut Modular team will lay the foundation and get the necessary permits to build your dream home!
What We Like
The luxury homes that Connecticut Modular Homes specializes in include the Cutler Series and the Cheridan Series — the Cutler Series models are between 2,500 and 3,500 square feet.
Westport Modular Homes
Fairfield County’s Westport Modular Homes will build you a custom home you’ll love to live in.
You can select all the finishing details, from the trim to the cabinetry and the flooring. Or, further customize your Westport home with vaulted ceilings, exterior or interior trim, a deck or porch, and balcony or stair railings.
The Westport team has over two decades of experience designing and building prefab homes.
The company is a LEED Green Associate, a Certified Green Builder through the National Association of Home Builders, and NYU-certified in construction project management and a cost estimator in construction.
What We Like
Westport Modular Homes builds every property green. Your home will come sealed with insulation throughout, as well as covered entries. The siding is cement, vinyl, or cedar.
The Westport team builds the home’s skeleton with pre-assembled, engineered wood systems. The wood is recycled and includes composites with no particleboard.
The glass and windows are low-E and thermally efficient, while the toilets are low-flow. All light fixtures and appliances meet Energy Star approval. Plus, the team will finish your home with low-VOC paint and flooring!
Shoreline Modular Homes
Established in 1963, Shoreline Modular Homes in Madison calls itself “Connecticut’s oldest and largest modular home builder.”
The Shoreline team has built homes for more than 1,600 customers and counting. You can create a floor plan yourself or customize one of Shoreline’s, and the company says it won’t affect how much you’ll pay for the house.
You can also choose from the myriad floor plan options that Shoreline Modular Homes offers if you’d prefer.
Your home will include plenty of insulation, such as a house wrap, fiberglass exterior wall insulation with an R-value of R-19, and fiberglass ceiling insulation rated R-30.
The exterior includes Therma-Tru Smooth-Star fiberglass doors with brick molding and vinyl jambs. The interior also has lots of vinyl, from the closets to the sheet flooring.
Your bathroom will feature Merillat Spring Valley Square cabinetry made of real oak!
What We Like
If you want to expand your home after Shoreline Modular builds it, contact the team and ask! It can build a second floor or a side addition, no problem.
Connecticut Valley Homes
Connecticut Valley Homes is the next modular home builder on our list. The company has two headquarters, one in East Lyme and one in Rhode Island.
The Connecticut Valley team builds all its modular homes off-site in a factory environment. You can also have your house built right on your property if you’d like. It’s up to you!
All floor plans are available for you to select from, from one-story to two-stories, narrow and small-lot homes, modern farmhouses, modern properties, capes, and coastal homes.
The smallest floor plans clock in at just under 1,000 square feet with two bedrooms and one bathroom.
If you want a much bigger property, the larger models exceed 3,500 square feet. A home that size would include at least 3.5 bathrooms and four bedrooms.
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Do you want to customize your modular home? No problem! Connecticut Valley Homes has a design studio where you can plan all the customization elements.
Southern New England Modular Homes, Inc.
Colchester’s Southern New England Modular Homes, Inc. has served residents since 1986, offering floor plans such as colonials, capes, ranches, T-ranches, split-levels, and raised ranches.
Using specialized software, you can customize any of the above modular home styles to build your perfect house.
The company has a building facility in Pennsylvania, where work on your home will begin. The house gets shipped to you not long after!
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The standard specifications for a Southern New England Modular home include double-hung windows, energy-efficient house wrapping, plywood roof sheathing, floor and roof framing, and a 16-inch center wall.
Coyle Modular Homes
Kevin Coyle is the founder and namesake of Coyle Modular Homes, which has been in business for over 20 years. He and his wife decided to start a modular home-building company to give Connecticut residents more personalized options.
Your dwelling can cost up to 30 percent less than a traditionally built home. In addition, you have a variety of home styles and floor plans to choose from, with the freedom to customize any of them.
What We Like
Coyle Modular will also renovate your current home like several companies we’ve covered. It can update old features and fixtures, refinish your hardwood flooring, install crown molding, re-paint, or update the house with new construction.
Design. Build. Modular
With locations in both Massachusetts and Connecticut, Design. Build. Modular is a well-established builder. The company’s Connecticut headquarters is in Bethel.
The five-step building process makes it easy to begin planning your perfect home.
The first step is prequalifying for financing. Next, choose the floor plan you like, then you move on to the free consultation with the team.
Finally, you can add design elements before the team builds your house exactly as you requested!
What We Like
You can schedule a virtual tour of any of Design. Build. Modular’s single-family, multi-family, colonial, cape, or ranch homes. Luxury homes are also available.
Douglas Cutler Architects
Finally, we have Douglas Cutler Architects. Based in Wilton, this architectural firm has more than 30 years of excellence in building both commercial and residential structures.
Its properties include commercial buildings, high-end modular, and more.
What We Like
The range of homes available from Douglas Cutler Architects is truly impressive. This company can deliver everything from modern, stylish houses to traditional homes and even large office buildings.
Conclusion
Connecticut has more than its fair share of outstanding modular home builders. So whether your budget is more extravagant or quite tight, you can achieve your goal of homeownership in this great state!
There may also be modular builders in neighboring states that will have no problem delivering to you as well! Check out our similar articles on New York, Rhode Island, and Massachusetts to discover if any of these companies service your area of Connecticut.