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Thanks for the photos, one which I haven't seen before. I'm looking for one of the front or interior of the red "bedroom unit." Hopefully, it will come along, with a video tour as well.

Anyway, I'm crazy about this very issue, and to a Clayton's rep's face, I probably would tell him about how much I like the interior, and the whole effort, and concept, which is what other people seem to be saying.

I love modern, and have a wide latitude in tastes for the way modern homes look. I see the potential of manufactured homes to go green, and am ALL FOR IT. So you would think I would like everything about this i-house right?

Unfortunately, I feel the main unit looks too much like a single wide trailer, and can't believe the architects didn't see this. Along with that, ANYTHING that looks like a single-wide is going to be a terribly hard sell, to customers, and probably in areas like where I live, that are zoned for double-wide only, not to mention the bulk of areas that are zoned against all manufactured homes.

I think that incorporating water catchment ruined the potential of the design. It rules the look of the house. Let's say the house had a simple shed roof design, with a good angle for solar panels, even that could have a gutter or roof design that could be used for water catchment.

Maybe it will be explained/justified by the i-house architects.

Seriously, I would like to like it, but I don't. I like the window placement in the living room, and from what I can tell, it looks to be well made. I like the materials. But the bisected look, of the bedroom half of the main unit...yikes, it just looks peculiar. I could get used to it though, if the company wants to give one to me for free, in exchange for giving tours and doing a running video blog on the web.

More seriously, I'm middle aged and I've never lived in a manufactured home. I want one though, and when I get one, for sure, it will be a green one. I look forward to the designs to come.

I don't care if a billion other people have the exact same modernistic manufactured home I have, one day, I want to live in one.

Such a house won't look like Fuller's DYMAXION house -- which was poorly insulated and had some other major flaws -- but instead it will have to be something beautiful. If it isn't beautiful, it is going to have to work very very well, and be reasonably priced.