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What happens when you give Cavco’s most creative and driven team of interior designers, floor plan engineers and decorators free rein to design the manufactured home of their customers’ dreams? As it happens, they create the Studio Collection, a group of beautiful manufactured homes that deliver exceptional designer features packaged affordably for discerning homebuyers.
Speaking about this new collection, Megan Foster, Director of Cavco’s Design Innovation Team, describes the creation of this collection as “one of our team’s and my personal proudest accomplishments.”
What is the Studio Collection from Cavco?
Foster describes the Studio Collection as “a national collection that has been curated to be affordable, while still giving customers those extras that create a custom look and feel. That really makes these homes feel like something special.”
She explains that every floor plan, finish and design decision had to earn its place. From the roofline to the interior fixtures, each detail is chosen to make the home more beautiful and livable for the homeowners, not for how it would look in a catalog.
Foster is direct about the team’s intent.
“Our goal wasn’t to build the least expensive home; our goal was to build the most valuable home for our customers. The Studio Collection wasn’t assembled from existing floor plans and designs; each model was engineered to be something that stands out.”
Every Studio Collection home, wherever it is built across the company’s 33 building centers, follows the same design philosophy, styling and quality guidelines. For buyers, that means distinctive features already in place, not add-ons that cost extra. For retailers, it means they’re selling a proven product backed by Cavco’s national promise to provide exceptional, affordable homes that people want – including the Studio Collection homes.
Only released a year ago, homes in Studio Collection have already climbed into Cavco’s top three best sellers. And it’s easy to see why.
What Today’s Homebuyers Want
The features packed into the Studio Collection aren’t just someone’s personal favorites. They’re what customers ask for. And Cavco’s customers ask for many of the same special features and details. Now, the Cavco Innovation Team includes many of them into their home designs. Features such as freestanding tubs, ceramic tile backsplashes and integrated entertainment centers, as well as trending fixtures and finishes.
Getting the styles just right is a balancing act: buyers want a home that feels current, but being too fashion-forward can push too far ahead of what customers are looking for.
“You can get too trendy really quickly and make people uncomfortable,” Foster says.
Luxury carries the same risk. “People are intimidated when you get too luxury-driven… like, ‘I can’t afford that’ or ‘that’s not really my speed.’”
The Studio Collection skillfully navigates a thin line: current enough to feel fresh and classic enough to hold up for years.
What is Cavco’s Design Innovation Team
The Design Innovation Team is a mix of Cavco’s leading designers, floor plan specialists and materials experts from across the country. For the Studio Collection, the team brought in all of the interior designers, plus the architecture group and the home designers who talk with plants and retailers every day.
“We really make sure these homes are manicured to make sense across all markets,” Foster says.
Their designs target how people live today and what they want in a home. One such Studio Collection model is the new Grande Arbor and its multigenerational double-suite plan, a frameless prototype of which was recently displayed at the Innovative Housing Showcase 2026 in Washington, D.C. This design is a response to how people are cohabiting today: “You’re moving your aging parents or adult kids back in with you, and they need their own space and their own privacy – so we designed this double-suite home for those multi-generational families,” Foster explains.
Each design decision in a Studio Collection home must answer one question: “Does this design choice make life better for the homeowner?”
“My favorite part of the whole design process is that it is challenging to maximize budget and make our homes as beautiful as we can, and as functional as we can,” Foster says.
What Makes a Studio Collection Home Different?
Their distinction starts from the outside. Studio Collection homes are designed to have standout curb appeal with home exteriors mixing shake, board-and-batten and horizontal panels for texture. “Texture,” Foster says, “has really become important, even more so than some of the color trends that we see.”
Entering the home, the front door handle is a buyer’s first touch of the house and sets the tone. Small details like this can reveal immediately if a house feels well-built before ever stepping inside.
Inside, the kitchen anchors every plan. Depending on the model, features can include:
- Kitchen islands with prep space and casual seating
- Stainless steel appliance packages with smooth-top ranges
- Custom range hoods and decorative pendant lighting
- 42-inch cabinets with upgraded hardware
- Ceramic tile backsplashes
- Coffee bars with room for a beverage fridge
Select models offer built-in porches, and some plans add a pass-through window from the dining area to the back porch. “It opens the room to the outdoors,” Foster says, “so you’ve got a nice circle of movement and just ease of entertainment.”
Living areas bring feature walls with floating shelves, accent beams and warm wood slat accents. Primary suites may include statement-piece freestanding soaking tubs, large walk-in showers with gridded doors and cohesive, black fixtures. Attractive LED-backlit mirrors do double duty: they help with getting ready and give the room a nice glow at night.
Specific features for Studio Collection homes vary by model and plant.
The Value Is in the Package
On similarly designed homes, many of these desirable features that homebuyers want may cost extra. In the Studio Collection by Cavco, they come standard on the home. Studio Collection homes are built at many Cavco plants across the country. Consequently, materials are bought in volume. Of new materials, Foster says, “we can get a higher volume usage, and so we can get them at a better price.” Then that savings can be passed on to the customer.
The Cavco Design Team scouts vendor conferences and trade shows for materials that haven’t reached the field yet. “Everything we do is backed by lots of homework,” Foster says. “Finding the newest finishes, features and design innovations their customers will love at the best price is what they do – and they love it.”
Studio Collection home buyers aren’t starting with a base home and building toward the home they really want. They are starting with a home where those choices were already researched and selected for them, by people passionate about creating beautiful homes with the right balance of comfort, function and value.
The Studio Collection Designer details you’d pay extra for? Already included.
See more online at www.cavcohomes.com/studio-collection
