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Well -- each house style has it's own good points and looks good in it's style. I think what screws it up for me is when you take a house that is completely one style and decide it's going to be another..... like out here, people are buying Victorians and gutting them to be completely modern in the interior. It's like walking into the time warp.... jarring and wrong.
I like mid 1900s houses. When they come up for sale, we sometimes tour them just for the fun of it. I hate to see them remodeled. All the vintage character has been ripped out. Good unique looking American made stuff replaced with the same cheap Chinese crap everyone gets at big box stores these days.
Exactly. Until 4 1/2 years ago I had always lived in a stucco house...in so. California. They get dusty and dirty and faded and flakey. If there are certain chemicals in the soil, leaching can occur that discolors and crumbles the stucco. In our last home in So. CA we had the stucco redone....what a pain in the neck and a very expensive pursuit. Now we have a classic Federal style brick home where the maintenance is minimal and the appearance consistently beautiful. Stucco homes are rare here and don't sell well. I have over 50 years experience in living in a stucco home....I know of what I speak....nix to the stucco.
The first thru third and pics are not my style. To old fashioned cutesy for my taste. The log cabin might be OK for weekend getaway in the woods but to flannel shirt and fireplacey for me.
Stucco is great, in the right place and kept up just like any other siding. Its used a lot in Florida, but often looks bad because sprinkler systems use well water which is full of iron, therefore the stucco gets rust stained.
What, no T1-11? :-)
For me its not the siding, its the color. I find most of those houses except that weird stone victorian and the log cabin incredibly boring and common-place.
I think I would prefer the unrepresented Tudor.
Really, most of the choices depend on the location. You just can't work well with certain styles in some areas. A log cabin wouldn't last long in New Mexico.
Where's the adobe?
You also missed the nice sprawling ranch style.
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