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These are McMansions and an abomination. I do not like any of them. No set style, just a conglomeration of this and that. Now, give me a Craftsman style bungalow then i might be interested. Those houses pictured are devoid of any class or character.
These styles are replacing homes in my community. Usually it is a local who made good or someone from out of the area who tear down perfectly good homes to build their “dream” home.
I cannot find a better word that "Sterile " when looking at these houses . no flowers , no garden and they look like pasty people would live here . By pasty I mean people who would never go outside in the sun ….
i like 2,3,6,7, and 9 is just ok. They are rather castellar, but nice looking. if you permanently have a lot of money for heating and upkeep, and need all that space for people in your life, etc, well, fine. The others are really too boxy looking and idk, someone said sterile.
If you want the garage to the side or back of the house, you must live in a very small town with abundant space, and if that's what you like, great, but that's not reality anywhere I've ever lived. Even for $1M+ budgets in a place like Las Vegas, Portland, or Los Angeles, you're going to have the garage in front like every other house. You simply cannot find that big of lots that each house would randomly have a garage to the side, how would that even work in a neighborhood?! You'd have side alleys all over the place. It doesn't make any sense design-wise whatsoever. Maybe out in the country, sure, but then you're going to live in a lame small town with probably lame architecture and a cheap house.
I agree a house shouldn't appear all garage when you look at it, that's an ugly look if all you see approaching is a giant garage, but I've borderline never seen a house where the garage wasn't in front of the house. Even my dad's 20,000 square foot house has a three-car garage on one edge of the house, left side if you were facing the front door. It would waste valuable property to have to drive around the back of the house, which is where the pool should be.
there are plenty of urban and suburban areas that have 1 or 2 acre yards in the outskirts. You haven't been around obviously. goodness, not just small towns. it can get pricey but not all of them.
All those houses are not to my personal taste. Too big, too complicated, too showy.
Give me a Craftsman bungalow of about 1400 feet with some nooks and crannies and coziness.
I'm a big fan of the Not So Big House, a book by Sarah Susanka, the architect. I drool over those homes... they are so livable...were I to win the lottery, I'd be on the phone to Ms. Susanka in a heartbeat, commissioning a home...
I cannot find a better word that "Sterile " when looking at these houses . no flowers , no garden and they look like pasty people would live here . By pasty I mean people who would never go outside in the sun ….
These are drawings, not actual houses. there would only be sun if someone clicked on a button to have the computer add the sun to the drawing
If you want the garage to the side or back of the house, you must live in a very small town with abundant space, and if that's what you like, great, but that's not reality anywhere I've ever lived. Even for $1M+ budgets in a place like Las Vegas, Portland, or Los Angeles, you're going to have the garage in front like every other house. You simply cannot find that big of lots that each house would randomly have a garage to the side, how would that even work in a neighborhood?! You'd have side alleys all over the place. It doesn't make any sense design-wise whatsoever. Maybe out in the country, sure, but then you're going to live in a lame small town with probably lame architecture and a cheap house.
I agree a house shouldn't appear all garage when you look at it, that's an ugly look if all you see approaching is a giant garage, but I've borderline never seen a house where the garage wasn't in front of the house. Even my dad's 20,000 square foot house has a three-car garage on one edge of the house, left side if you were facing the front door. It would waste valuable property to have to drive around the back of the house, which is where the pool should be.
My house is on a 60 foot wide 7500 square foot lot and it has a 2 car detached garage in the back. The driveway is one car wide where it goes past the house. This is my preferred layout for a number of reasons.
But at any rate, in most cities I've lived in, houses built before about 1950 had detached garages on small lots; so it is absolutely possible to have a modest house on a small lot and not have a front garage.
These designs are very amateurish and under developed. Are these multi family homes? Why two separate garages on so many of them? That makes no sense.
Other elements of each make no sense from a practical usability standpoint. Whomever designed these house obviously has not been to school for residential design. Looks like someone just playing around with a computer design program and thinking that makes them an architect.
I find it impossible to believe anyone would actually build these houses. They are extremely expensive as drawn but without architectural merit or practical usability added form the added construction expense. Some elements are just plain silly.
What do I think of them? I think they are awful. All the ills of McMansion design without any professional control at all. Absurd costly features added for no purpose or benefit. They lack balance, form and practicality. Basically it is clearly an amateur design which when thing like this get built they become a blight on their community, a local joke and an eyesore. I have seen better designs form high school students playing with a CAD program.
If these were actually buit, can you please tell us where they are? I want to see what they actually look like and also look up to see what crazy developer woudl adopt these "designs" Did someone actually buy one of these? For how much?
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