Prefab housing is all the rage right now. And Rocio Romero is right up there with the best of them. Before making a serious move in the prefab direction, my husband and I explored many other comparable options — including Wee House out of Minnesota (too hard to truck into our site), Dwell House (way over our budget), and Glide House (not hardy enough for the hard Massachusetts winters).
In the end, it was the warm glow of the LVL at night that drew me in like a moth to Rocio’s website. Everywhere I clicked there were luminous pictures of her long gleaming beauties. I became hooked on her concept, visiting her site at every chance I could get, phoning my husband at work to gush over yet another one of her client testimonials.
Finally, we got our chance to see a Rocio Romero home up close after signing up for a tour of a just
completed house near Rhinebeck, New York. It was everything we’d read about — light-filled, modern, breathtaking. And yet for all its advantages, we finally had to reject the LVL for the same reason we’d had to abandon our post-and-beam Yankee Barn: a design that was not able to let in enough light from the south. The only choice left was to give up once and for all — or find an architect.
