Our example homes are our popular timber frame homes, based on tried-and-tested design for layout and assembly methods, and refined over a twenty-year period.
With decades of experience creating eco-homes, our example home design series highlights our most popular designs to make the initial selection process easier for our customers. These timber frame home designs are all tried and tested, carbon-negative and highly energy efficient.
All our example home designs use our advanced, healthy, timber-based off-site construction system using n‑SIPs (natural structural insulated panels), which ensures quality assurance and a true environmentally friendly and energy-efficient home. By avoiding chemical treatments, our homes embrace circular economy principles and set new standards for longevity.
Wind and watertight
Our central offer is to deliver a project to a wind and watertight stage, which means the home is complete externally – which some customers prefer as it allows them to make their own choices on how the building is completed and by which tradespeople. The cost of our wind and watertight homes includes professional fees, groundworks and service connections.
As our core strength is all about the design, manufacture and assembly of our technologically advanced eco homes, we do not carry out the complete internal fit-out. However, we fully recognise that some customers do not want to take this on or appoint their own tradespeople, so we partner with a number of specialist businesses which will project manage and organise all aspects of the internal fit-out work and specialist installations so the home is ready to move into.
Different sizes of eco-homes to choose from
The following shows a selection of our tried-and-tested Example home designs.
MAKAR A2.5 91 m²
- Single storey with level access
- Contemporary split roof design
- 2 bedrooms + Study
- Accessible shower room
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MAKAR A3 125 m²
- Single storey with level access
- Traditional pitched roof design with large overhanging eaves
- 3 bedrooms
- Accessible shower room
- En-suite
- Large utility room
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MAKAR A2.9 108 m²
- Single storey with level access
- Pitched roof design with minimized eaves, well suited to exposed locations
- 2 bedrooms + Study
- Accessible shower room
- En-suite
- Attic storage above bedrooms and serviced areas
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MAKAR A4.5 142 m²
- 1.5 storey
- Traditional pitch roof
- 3 bedrooms + Study
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MAKAR A5 200 m²
- 1.5 storey
- Traditional pitched roof design with large overhanging eaves
- 5 bedrooms / home office
- Accessible shower room
- WC / cloak room
- En-suite
- Large utility room
- Large eaves storage areas
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MAKAR A5.5 184 m²
- Two storey with single storey wing
- Traditional pitch roof
- 5 bed with + space for a study
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MAKAR A6 181 m²
- Two storey
- Traditional pitch roof
- 6 bedrooms
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Please note, while the prices for these homes are from £290K, we cannot be specific on the costs for each property type before your enquiry, as there are many variants that come into play. For example, groundworks and the nature of foundations will vary considerably depending on how level the site is and the depth of excavations required. Also, service connections are necessarily unique to each site. A further factor is location, taking into account how far the site is from our Inverness base.
Self-build eco kit homes for individuals and developers
MAKAR self-build eco kit homes represent the pinnacle in self-build technology. Our off-site construction method means that n‑SIPS are delivered to your site already clad and ready for assembly. This makes any of our seven main home designs ideal for individuals wanting to build their own home — including the assembly, as well as developers looking at one or more properties.
Our smaller eco-homes make ideal second properties on your land
For our smaller homes, these are an increasingly popular choice for people who can get planning permission to build a second property on their land, such as in a large garden, often seen as an attractive option given that the land doesn’t have to be purchased. It also allows extended families to live close together but still have their privacy.
MAKAR and our kit houses Scotland
Our kit houses in Scotland appeal to like-minded people who are interested in ‘breathing construction’ and the use of healthy, local materials. Although several kit house suppliers in Scotland offer off-site SIPs, our system is based on natural, benign materials. Our Scottish-grown timber, integrated with ventilation and microrenewable equipment, offers a truly healthy, sustainable way of building. In this respect, our homes are far more in line with achieving net-zero carbon housing than any other, with this point increasingly relevant in the context of economic just-transition and climate action.
Where we offer our self-build eco kit homes
Although we’ve historically serviced Scotland, we can supply and erect our eco kit homes for self-build projects across the UK. This is because we typically spend just five days on-site assembling the wind and watertight structure. All the manufacture of the n‑SIPS and other components is carried out in our facility near Inverness and then shipped to your site.
Energy efficient eco kit homes
The technology and expertise that go into our eco kit homes means they are all highly energy efficient. This is achieved by adherence to the core principles and our rigorous quality assurance approach. We not only achieve ultra-low operational energy use but address embodied carbon, locking up more than emitted during delivery. We can also deliver them to fully certified Passive House standard if required.
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