Modern Home Kits

What is a Modern Home Kit?

 

A modern home kit is a pre-engineered home designed to reflect the aesthetics and efficiency of 21st-century construction. Ideal for any setting, these kits combine sleek features, sloped roofs, and expansive window walls to create striking, contemporary spaces. Each kit includes engineered blueprints, pre-cut lumber, windows, doors, siding, and more, providing everything needed for a complete framing solution. Whether you dream of an eco-friendly retreat, a stylish timber estate, or a one-of-a-kind modern home tailored to your vision, we’re here to help you bring it to life.

Introducing Our

Modern Home Kits

Our modern home kits offer the perfect mix of form and function, blending modernism and minimalism to create a sustainable structure naturally suited to the needs of its owners. With a modern home design from DC Structures, you can craft a striking building solution that effortlessly exudes the ideals of the future. See what we offer as part of our collection below!

The Trillium

The Trillium

Modern Home

Our Trillium Modern Home Kit offers four bedrooms, four bathrooms, a two-car garage, and a magnificent covered patio perfect for entertaining.

The Timberline

The Timberline

Modern Home

This modern timber frame home offers a futuristic yet cozy design defined by its clean lines, massive heavy timbers, and dramatic window walls.

The Skyline

The Skyline

Modern Home

This striking modern home offers a bold take on our traditional heavy timber look. With three bedrooms, three-and-a-half bathrooms, and multiple entertainment areas, you can turn this home into the ideal family residence or creative retreat.

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Modern Home Projects
Who We Are

Why DC Structures?

DC Structures is a leading designer and producer of pre-engineered wood structures. Headquartered in Portland, Oregon, our team creates expertly crafted building packages that can be shipped anywhere in the United States and Canada. With a relentless commitment to quality and a passion for innovation, we craft stunning wood homes and buildings that ensure longevity, durability, and lasting beauty for your investment. See why hundreds of North American customers consider us the premier choice for their prefab building solutions.

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Design

With our cutting-edge design software, our team will digitally construct your modern home kit in an immersive 3D environment. This technology allows you to explore, modify, and perfect your structure in real-time, ensuring your total satisfaction with the final design.

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Materials

We work with top material suppliers like Andersen, Pella, and James Hardie to provide our clients with well-made, durable materials for their pre-engineered building kits. From premium Douglas fir timbers to floor-to-ceiling picture windows, we offer dozens of premium standard items for your modern home design.

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Options & Upgrades

Looking for something more unique to your vision? Our options and upgrades offer hundreds of alluring selections for your build. With options like triangular windows, glass doors, and oversized timbers, you can easily customize your model to fit your vision.

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Prefabrication

Our prefabrication methods deliver a streamlined framing process that saves you time and money on the job site without sacrificing quality. Using state-of-the-art CNC technology, our team will translate your plans into expertly pre-cut, pre-drilled, and labeled pieces of framing lumber that make installation seamless, straightforward, and cost-effective.

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How it Works

Our Process

Our simplified kit process makes crafting your modern home kit easy and rewarding. With our dedicated team working in tandem on your project, you can expect an experience, product, and process that exceeds expectations from start to finish.

What We Offer

Our Modern Home Expertise

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Interior Design

Create the modern living space of your dreams with our comprehensive interior design services. With our interior designers overseeing your design, selections, procurement, and delivery, you can expect extraordinary results for your space and a process you and your builder will equally benefit from.

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Sustainability

One of the main elements of modern home design is sustainability and, more specifically, how each feature of your home contributes to a greener way of living. Whatever you envision for your sustainable modern home, our team can make it a reality. Let us know what green building solutions you have in mind for your project, and our designers will work with you to create an eco-friendly plan for your space!

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Open-Ended Designs

Our pre-engineered building models come with flexible floor plans that you can easily tailor to meet your individual room needs. With the help of our experienced designers, you can create a custom layout that includes everything you need for your personalized living space.

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Modern Home Kit

Frequently Asked Questions

Our modern home kits contain everything you need to quickly and efficiently frame your structure, including engineered plans, pre-cut timbers, windows, doors, siding, and hardware. Things like foundation labor, final roofing material, nails, and screws will need to be sourced separately through you or your builder. For a complete look at what does and doesn’t come with our kits, visit our What’s Included page here.

The starting price for our modern home kits ranges from $200,000 to $500,000. To get a better idea of turnkey costs, we recommend that clients multiply their starting price by 3-5 times, though the final number will vary based on factors like customizations, location, construction costs, and building methods.

We do not. However, our experienced project coordinators are well-versed in the financing process for our structures and could help you find the right lender for your modern home project.

We do! Our modern home kits are backed by a 10-year limited warranty on framing materials, starting on the date of your final payment.

We can certainly design your modern home with SIPs in mind! While we do not supply insulation as part of our design and material packages, our designers can craft your modern home to incorporate SIPs.

We’d love to help you! We work with trusted contractors across the United States and Canada and would love to help put you in touch with an experienced builder in your area.