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Thanks Poppydog for posting something positive and showing how beautiful a small house can be and definitely not an eyesore to the neighborhood
I assume this means you think I was just being negative? If so, you missed my point.
A swiss chalet style house can be beautiful. A Spanish stucco style house can be beautiful. A log cabin can be beautiful.
But if you put any of those in a neighborhood where they are architecturally out of sync with everything else going on in the neighborhood, you've probably cost a lot of people a lot of money, and made a hell of a lot of enemies, and the cumulative effect is just plain ugly. This is not my opinion. Ask any real estate professional for the facts about homes that are "unique" to their surroundings.
I wasn't debating the beauty of individual homes in the eye of the individual homeowner. My position is that those who want these homes do not have a right to crap on other folks' investment by putting them where they would be out of place or undesirable by the other members of that community.
Do you disagree? You seem to want me to "open my mind" in such a way that really means change my mind about this position, to which I will say no thanks.
I fully support the right of folks to make dedicated communities for these if there's demand to do so. I don't support someone entitling themselves to devalue someone else's property.
Wow, that's gorgeous! I love those little Tumbleweed houses. I always say I can make it work, then I look around my house and think of how I feel like I need more storage. But I guess it's all in how you downsize and arrange things.
Can anyone tell me what's the point in making a house that's inordinately narrow in width if you're just ultimately going to extend the length? He who owns the most snake-like home wins? Is it a hipster thing to say "got one of these" just because its different?
I don't believe it's a contest or anything about being hip. It's all about individuality if that's the right word
I wasn't debating the beauty of individual homes in the eye of the individual homeowner. My position is that those who want these homes do not have a right to crap on other folks' investment by putting them where they would be out of place or undesirable by the other members of that community.
I think if they're not in a HOA, they have the right to do whatever they want with their property. If you want to control what other people do with their property a HOA is probably the right place for you.
Personally I really like a neighborhood with a bunch of different styles. Throw in a mill house, a swiss chalet, an A-frame, a log cabin, a mid-century mod, a tiny house and it sounds like my kinda place. I love funky individuality.
Personally I really like a neighborhood with a bunch of different styles. Throw in a mill house and a swiss chalet and an A-frame and a log cabin and a tiny house. Sounds like my kinda place.
Sounds like my kind of place too seeing how I grew up in a little hand built log house in Raleigh.
I think if they're not in a HOA, they have the right to do whatever they want with their property. If you want to control what other people do with their property a HOA is probably the right place for you.
Well I don't disagree, but it's been said that a HOA covenant is really just a last-resort defense against the stupidly inconsiderate. In other words if you're in a neighborhood full of log cabins, you have to know that building a Spanish stucco is going to devalue your own property as well as those around it.
But I agree with you in one way -- a HOA is something that the purchaser either signs up for or they don't at the time they buy the property, weighing the benefits and the risks. So, if they end up in a property without a covenant, and someone does something that devalues the neighborhood, then technically they agreed to that risk ahead of time.
However, sometimes even an HOA cannot prevent stupid. Look at the "Neighbor Issues" thread and the story of the ladder for proof of that.
Personally I really like a neighborhood with a bunch of different styles. Throw in a mill house, a swiss chalet, an A-frame, a log cabin, a mid-century mod, a tiny house and it sounds like my kinda place. I love funky individuality.
Those neighborhoods can be nice if they are consistently funky and individualistic and if luck has been on the side of the community with regard to building choices. But if Justin Beiber moved in next door, and wanted to build a home that was shaped like a large hairy phallus, do you still support that level of individualism or should someone at some point care about common sense?
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