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Maker of the world’s finest quality and most unique prefabricated homes. Elevated homes built on pedestals and stilts – resistant to hurricanes and earthquakes.Utilizing a panelized and Post & Beam building system, each Topsider Home is custom designed to meet individual client needs and local building codes. Topsider Homes is best known for its pedestal homes, but it also offers many other foundation types including stilts and pilings, basements, crawl-spaces and slabs. Topsider's prefabricated homes are engineered to be hurricane-resistant and earthquake-resistant and are extremely energy efficient. House plans by Topsider Homes range in size from small guest houses to large modern contemporary luxury homes exceeding 10,000 sq. ft.

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Built near Hilton Head, SC, this highly engineered hurricane-resistant beachfront Topsider home features a multi-level roofline designed for extraordinary ocean views.

This home, elevated 18-ft., built on the Gulf Coast, replaced a “stick built” home destroyed by Hurricane Katrina.

Check out this recently updated old school Topsider pedestal home built in the mid-1970s at Fripp Island, SC. It has survived numerous hurricanes and tropical storms.

A literal “battleship” of a structure, this hurricane-resistant home was engineered to survive hurricane-force winds, and was elevated nearly 20-ft for storm surge protection.

Topsider pedestal home foundations have thick concrete walls. Each is anchored to a deep reinforced concrete slab base. Floor and roof panels sit atop massive laminated beams held together by large steel couplings.

Check out this cool Topsider double pedestal home built in New Mexico. Great views and a stunning southwest motif interior – See Pics: https://bit.ly/3OHFrof

One of our favorite homes, this luxury lake house is a perfect example of our open-living floor plans, vaulted ceilings and incredible panoramic views.

Built on an oceanfront point on North Andros in the Bahamas, this piling home was designed and engineered to be low-maintenacne and hurricane resistant.

This beautiful multi-pedestal mountain home features luxurious interior spaces, expansive view side decking and fantastic views overlooking the river valley below.

Built on the Carolina coast, this elevated two-story beach house features plenty of bedrooms and baths, ideal for a vacation/rental home.

Topsider homes are custom designed with hurricane strength floor-to-ceiling windows to exploit the best oceanscape panoramic views.

Perched high and dry overlooking the convergence of two canals into the Gulf of Mexico in south Florida, this elevated double pedestal home is safe from storm surge and flooding

Built on an earthquake-prone coastal hillside, it was custom-designed and engineered to be earthquake-resistant while also providing incredible panoramic views of the ocean inlet below.

One of our favorite resort projects from the early 1970s – The Sealofts on Deer Island (Sea Pines Plantation) in Hilton Head, SC. Sixty original design Topsider pedestal homes with ground level entryways.

Engineered to withstand hurricane force winds exceeding 180 mph, this low-maintenance piling house was designed using Topsider’s unique hurricane-resistant post & beam building system.

From small cabins, guest houses to efficient open-plan primary homes, each Topsider home is individually designed to meet client, building site and local building code requirements.

This two-story home combines a variety of design elements, creating a unique home that blends in well with its rugged southwestern setting.

Magnificent panoramic views of the Caribbean Sea highlight this secluded small Topsider resort on the Placencia Peninsula in southern Belize.

Amazing double-pedestal Topsider home, built on the Big Island of Hawaii, with breath-taking seascape views. Designed to be earthquake- and hurricane-resistant.

With the living area elevated to protect it from storm surge, this Topsider home makes the perfect oceanfront tropical beach house.

Built on a steep mountainside in Hawaii, this low-maintenance, seismic-resistant home was designed to provide extraordinary panoramic views of the Pacific Ocean.

This Gulf Coast resort features Topsider’s iconic pedestal homes, engineered to be hurricane-resistant and elevated to protect them from flooding caused by storm surge.

Designed with large view-facing windows and ample decking, this seasonal home is ideal for lakeside living. It was engineered for heavy snow loads and energy-efficiency with high-performance windows and insulations.

Cool two-story Topsider Home, built in Ojai, CA, with panoramic mountain views, and a spacious and elegant casual living, open floor plan.

This elevated Florida Gulf Coast Topsider beach house features panoramic views, low-maintenance finishes, and was built on large concrete piling.

Like the many thousands of Topsider coastal homes built since 1968, this was engineered to withstand hurricane-force winds and specified with low-maintenance exterior finishes and high-impact glass windows.

With room for the whole family, this two-story home, built in Myrtle Beach, SC, features a unique cantilevered design and low-maintenance exterior finish materials to protect it from the harsh coastal climate.

Cantilevered over the water’s edge and overlooking the Caribbean Sea on a small private Cay in Belize, these Topsider hurricane-resistant pedestal homes make for the perfect tropical vacation getaway.

Topsider early-era Florida Keys beach resort. Each villa is elevated with two living levels and an enclosed screened lanai. These homes, built facing the Atlantic, were designed to be hurricane resistant

This luxurious, one-of-a-kind, custom-designed contemporary lake house built on Lake St. Clair in Michigan, features two elevated living levels with extraordinary panoramic lake views.

This coastal South Carolina hurricane-resistant home was built on concrete piers with the ground level area enclosed. “Flood vents” at ground level allow storm surge water to flow through without degrading the structural integrity of the house.

Hanging over a steep mountainside in the Pacific Northwest, this contemporary design Topsider home features high-end finishes and panoramic views of the valley below.

Featuring beautiful roughhewn timber accents and vaulted ceilings throughout, this three bedroom, two bath craftsman style home is a great example of Topsider’s Signature Design Collection.

This may be the most amazing Topsider home we’ve ever designed – talk about a panoramic view. The rest of the house is equally as grand as this custom-designed great room.

“Just thought you would like to see how we fared after Hurricane Dorian. While the destruction on the island [Green Turtle Cay, Abaco, Bahamas] was devastating to most of the home owners, the four tree houses came through basically unscathed"

This hurricane-resistant home is ideally situated on a secluded island in the Bahamas. It provides maximum safety and security against the forces of Mother Nature.

This secluded Topsider luxury home features low-maintenance exterior finishes including composite decking and a metal roof. It was designed to withstand hurricane-force winds and the damaging effects of its tropical salt-air environment

Built overlooking a lake in North Carolina, this pedestal foundation Topsider home was the ideal design to turn an otherwise unbuildable lot into the perfect lake front home site.

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