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View Poll Results: Given the size, quality of construction and all other amenities being equal, which home would you pr
Traditional 16 53.33%
Modern 14 46.67%
Voters: 30. You may not vote on this poll

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Old 05-07-2009, 04:57 PM
 
Location: Austin, TX
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To test my statements in other threads about what style of houses people prefer, I am creating a poll regarding this. I hope the following categories are definitive enough. I started out thinking I would try to define these further but it quickly became so complicated that I gave it up, feeling that most people will have no problem deciding which one they prefer.

Given the size, quality of construction and all other amenities being equal, which home would you prefer to live in?

Traditional

Modern
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Old 05-07-2009, 05:38 PM
 
Location: Austin
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I need more. I love a true ranch-style home that blends in with the setting, has oversized eaves and flows into an outdoor "living area". I also have an affinity for mid-century modern homes, but the ones I love are out of my price range.
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Old 05-07-2009, 05:44 PM
 
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I am a traditional girl myself. It's just a personal preference.

But I would also add that I think a traditional home may be better at resale. Today's modern = tomorrow's "what were you thinking?"
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Old 05-07-2009, 05:50 PM
 
Location: central Austin
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I like good design. I love mid-century modern, I love a center hall colonial, I love a well-thought out ranch. I love craftman bungalows, and even a traditional clapboard, two-story raised ranch is fine. A real victorian, yes! Faux victorian, no. There are newer modern homes in Austin that I would buy and many architect designed homes in Barton Hills and Highland Hills that I admire.

I cannot stand the puffed out (bloated) looking faux Tuscan-things! Ugh. They are ridiculous.

Two story entries drive me crazy (big hair houses), and double-high ceilings seem very dated to him. The big box, high-pitched roof, red brick, double high entry, with curved windows gives me the willies!! Shudder.

Anything that seems connected to its site, where the orientation makes some sense, and where the rooms are well-proportioned is wonderful.

So there are my two cents! (I didn't vote).
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Old 05-07-2009, 05:54 PM
 
Location: Austin, TX
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I need more. I love a true ranch-style home that blends in with the setting, has oversized eaves and flows into an outdoor "living area". I also have an affinity for mid-century modern homes, but the ones I love are out of my price range.
Yeah, I understand, it gets complicated. Ranch style was considered pretty modern when it first appeared.

Ranch-style house - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

To me traditional implies vernacular and

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The 20th century Ranch House style has its roots in North American Spanish colonial architecture of the 17th to 19th century. These buildings used single story floor plans and native materials in a simple style to meet the needs of their inhabitants.
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Several American architects of the early 20th century were instrumental in taking the Spanish colonial ranch homes and fusing them with Modern Architecture to create the California Ranch House Style. Cliff May of San Diego and later, of Los Angeles, and William Wurster of San Francisco are two of the more common names associated with this innovation. Cliff May’s book, “Western Ranch Houses,” written with the editors of Sunset Magazine, stresses three basic concepts about ranch houses that serve as foundational philosophical underpinnings. First, is livability, second, flexibility and third is an unpretentious character. All three elements were addressed by combining modern building practices with the rustic Spanish Colonial rancherias.
All of this may have been the beginnings of "modern architectural residential sytles".
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Old 05-07-2009, 08:48 PM
 
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I have to ditto Central Austinite. Are you my long lost twin?
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Old 05-08-2009, 01:04 AM
 
Location: Austin, TX
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Spanish/Mediteranean for me.
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Old 05-08-2009, 05:24 AM
 
Location: Driftwood TX
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Just 2 options is pretty broad.
As for us we chose totally original, one of a kind, traditional, spanish.
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Old 05-08-2009, 07:07 AM
 
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Spanish style is my favorite, but I also like the old Craftsman style houses.
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Old 05-08-2009, 07:16 AM
 
Location: Central Texas
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I adore Craftsman. Flat adore it.
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