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I've been amazed as to how badly designed new houses can be. Square feet alone, I agree, is a near useless metric. I'd love to see the user personas that went
by hakfoo 8y ago
I've been amazed as to how badly designed new houses can be. Square feet alone, I agree, is a near useless metric.
I'd love to see the user personas that went into the development process. I don't see my needs in there.
A local builder sells a two story model with ZERO bedrooms on the ground floor. If someone is elderly or disabled, or just breaks their leg and needs to be in a wheelchair for two months, the house is basically unlivable.
The number of designs I've seen which devote hundreds of square feet to seperate formal and informal dining areas, and near room-sized alcoves (not isolated enough to make into an office, too big to be a hallway), while still having 10x10 bedrooms, miniscule closets, and claustrophobic bathrooms baffles me.
- vonmoltke 8y ago> A local builder sells a two story model with ZERO bedrooms on the ground floor. If someone is elderly or disabled, or just breaks their leg and needs to be in a wheelchair for two months, the house is basically unlivable. For better or worse, that has been typical of multi-story houses for over a century.
- scarface74 8y agoThis was the one thing we insisted on when my wife and I were looking for a house. We have four bedrooms upstairs, but we also have a guest suite with a full bathroom downstairs. The idea of a separate formal and informal dining room was wasteful. We turned one into an office.