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Most modular housing in the US is double- and triple-wide houses that look exactly like what they are. Boring, simple layouts, ugly roof lines, clearly going for efficiency over any kind of style. And the construction quality isn't magic, despite them being put together on an assembly line. They're subject to the same cost-cutting as every other mass produced item.

I think manufactured homes would be more palatable if they stick-built certain parts of them. The big one being the roof. Instead of the low overhang, low slope design that works well for transport, ship them as roofless boxes and then do the roof on-site.

Of course, the problem with that is that a manufactured home isn't -that- much cheaper when you're done, so any kind of manual labor to make it prettier will close that gap quickly.