Prefab Builder Blend Projects Makes Tiny Cabins and Full-Blown Homes Made of Healthy Materials
The British Columbia company’s gable-sided residences start at $290 per square foot and prioritize finishes that are toxin-free.
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After more than 15 years spent in construction, high school friends Simon Fyall and Richard Egli began to think that there must be a better way to build. When the two visited the indigenous island of Haida Gwaii in Canada in 2019, suspicion grew into inspiration. Feeling that the buildings on the island ignored their natural surroundings, Simon and Richard started to imagine an architecture that blended in with the landscape of British Columbia. Soon after, the pair founded Blend Projects to build their vision: crisp gabled homes strung together from eight-foot-long cedar-sided glulam sections. We asked Kelly Robinson, the creative director at Blend Projects, about how one of their projects usually plays out.
Blend Projects’s prefab homes are built from glulam-beam structures in eight-foot-long sections. The steel brackets connecting them are custom made by Unlimited Fab Nanaimo, a local metal fabricator.
Photo by Matt Cecil
What’s the most exciting project you’ve realized to date?
Honestly, all of our completed projects have been so exciting, especially because we are a young company. But the one that stands out is the Flanagan Residence. Geordie Flanagan, his wife, Jess, and young daughter Stevie came to us wanting to build on their beautiful but challenging lot on Salt Spring Island in BC. At the time they were expecting their second daughter and were in a hurry to build their nest. Throughout the build process, Geordie naturally became an ambassador for the company and is now our head of sales. While the build wasn’t quite complete for the birth of their second baby, they were able to move in shortly after the completion of their family and are absolutely loving it. Geordie and Jess graciously show their home to many of our future clients, so in many ways, it feels like it is part of the Blend family.
The standing seam metal roofs are made from steel, and the cladding from natural cedar. The siding is darkened with a low-VOC, formaldehyde-free stain.
Photo by Matt Cecil
Blend Projects offers add-ons and other products like decking, outdoor showers, saunas, and ADUs.
Photo by Matt Cecil
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