During a remodel, you can change a chattel house’s layout, but you must protect its structure first. Removing walls, adding openings, raising floors or other structural changes, can affect load-bearing beams, foundations, and timber frames. Very early on in the Project Bird project, I decided that I would not be …
If you have been following the Chattel Houses blog or the Instagram page, you would know that I bought my first chattel house at the end of 2025. The home features a modern chattel house design which was popularized in the 1980s and 1990s. This is my first renovation, and …