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Shelter-Kit Builds on Success
Business NH Magazine—March 2010
It's the ultimate erector set for adults. For 40 years, Shelter-Kit has designed affordable, build-it-yourself homes, barns, cabins and garages that combine sweat equity, simple instructions and quality materials. And the kits don't require cranes or power tools to assemble.
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National attention for Tilton building company
Citizen of Laconia—January 2010
A Tilton company has started the New Year with a bang, being featured in a six-page spread in the February issue of Country Home magazine as well as garnering prime placement on MSN.com's Web site in January.
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Home Delivery
Country Living Magazine—February 2010
Lizzie Pickard and Daniel Cogan built their house from a $45,000 kit— and bought themselves the freedom to customize every detail.
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Tackling a kit home: What you need to know
MSN—January 2010
Tired of having to accept the cookie-cutter homes that developers push your way? Want to get your hands dirty and perhaps raise your own roof? A kit home could be for you.
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Build it (and green it) yourself
Mother Nature Network—September 2009
Let me introduce you to Shelter-Kit, a New Hampshire-based firm that's had a formidable presence in the kit home building industry for the last 40 years. Just this year, they've teamed up with TimberLogic LLC, a Certified Green Professional company, to give inherently greener kit homes even more eco-appeal.
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See Shelter-Kit featured on PreFabCosm.com
PreFabCosm.com—September 2009
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Cool Country Tools
Living the Country Life—October 2009
Shelter-Kit's do-it-yourself approach allows owners to build their own structure with the use of straightforward, step-by-step directions. No prior carpentry skills are needed. Quality hand-selected materials arrive at the site ready for assembly. Shelter-Kit barns are available in widths ranging from 16 to 36 feet and lengths of 16 to 64 feet and can be customized to meet additional needs.
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See Shelter-Kit featured on NECN
NECN—June 2009
New England Cable News Reporter Lauren Collins visited our office and factory to learn more about our unique kits. Shelter-Kit owner Dave Kimball talked with Lauren about our house, cabin, barn and garage kits, and explained why they are a great solution for amateur builders who want to assemble their own building. Lauren also visited a Shelter-Kit Barn House, and talked with the owner about his experience building his own home.
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Assembly Required
Greenwich Time HOME Magazine—April 2009
You could say Shelter-Kit and other do-it-yourself home building businesses are great-grandchildren of the Sears Home kits that hit the market more than 100 years ago... Shelter-Kit makes four basic building styles, but allows for customization, according to Dave kimball, owner of the Tilton, N.H.-based company.
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A Home with a Personal Stamp
Extreme How-To—May 2009
If timber framing is beyond your skill or budget level, you can still consider building your own home. Not a contractor? Not a builder? Never built a structure? No problem. Shelter-Kit, based out of Tilton, New Hampshire, is in its 40th year of manufacturing DIY kit homes, barns and garages, all of which are engineered to exacting quality and precision specifications so that anyone (including you) can in fact, build their own structure.
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Shelter-Kit's DIY barns deliver quality and simplicity
Southeast Equine Monthly—June 2009
You've heard of Ikea before, where not-so-handy folks can and do successfully build do-it-yourself furniture? Shelter-Kit takes the DIY concept to the next level. The Tilton, N.H.-based kit-home company creates barns, garages and even homes, all of which are engineered to exacting quality and precision specifications so that anyone (including you) can build their own structure.
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Buy a Home Kit and Build Your Own House
Mother Earth News—May 2009
ThereÕs one sector of the homebuilding market that seems to be weathering the recent economic storm better than the rest of its industry Ñ kit homes. Kit homes are houses built from packages of building materials, sometimes pre-cut to fit together without waste. Various styles of homes can be built from house kits.
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Do-It-Yourself Post & Beam Building Kits
Farm Show Magazine—Spring 2009
Shelter-Kit is a Tilton, N.H., company that precuts and drills lumber and hardware for post and beam building kits up to 36 ft. wide for do-it-yourselfers. "Everything is designed so that two people can handle all the material," says David Kimball of Shelter-Kit. Shelter-Kit's goal is to produce kit buildings for assembly by owners with no prior building experience.
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Kit lets you build your own green house
KVUE (Houston, TX)—April 2009
Do-it-yourself kit-home manufacturer, Shelter-Kit, Inc., has launched a Green Home Kit that will allow customers the ability to be a part of a certified home project from the National Association of Home Builders' (NAHB) National Green Building Certification Program (NGBP). The Tilton, NH, based kit-home company creates homes, barns and garages that anyone can build their own home.
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Shelter-Kit's DIY Barns Deliver Quality & Simplicity
Bridle & Bit—March 2009
You've heard of Ikea before, I'm sure... where not-so-handy folks can and do successfully build DIY-furniture. Well, Shelter-Kit takes this DIY concept to the next level. The Tilton, NH based kit-home company creates barns, garages and even homes, all of which are engineered to exacting quality and precision specifications so that anyone (including you) can in fact, build their own structure.
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Shelter-Kit's DIY Barns Deliver Quality & Simplicity
Michigan Quarter Horse Journal—January 2009
You've heard of Ikea before, I'm sure... where not-so-handy folks can and do successfully build DIY-furniture. Well, Shelter-Kit takes this DIY concept to the next level. The Tilton, NH based kit-home company creates barns, garages and even homes, all of which are engineered to exacting quality and precision specifications so that anyone (including you) can in fact, build their own structure.
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New York Times
6 April 2008, 20 July 2007
Vermont Magazine-At Home supplement
2007-08
USA Weekend
16 September 2007
Family Circle
March 2007
Domino
March 2007
Inspired House
February 2005
Inspired House
January/February 2005
Outside
August 2002
Country Home
June 2002
Yankee
May 2002
Mother Earth News
February/March 2002
Weekly World News
13 March 2001
New Hampshire Business Review
23 February 2001
The Horse
February 2001
Concord Monitor
13 August 2000, 9 August 2000
Kit Car
May 2000
 
 
 
 
 
 


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