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They build all the modern houses with a smaller count of giant damn rooms than they built the older ones. And they don't think them through very well, so they'r
by handrous 5y ago
They build all the modern houses with a smaller count of giant damn rooms than they built the older ones. And they don't think them through very well, so they're really inefficient with space. More hallways and fewer walk-through rooms, too, on top of lots of the rooms just having shitty, nonsense layouts. A 2,500 sqft typical suburban US house built after, IDK, 2005, may well not feel bigger than a 1,700 sqft house built with more rooms and more thought to how to best use the space. It'll look a lot better in real-estate photos, though! More wow-factor! Ugh.
- danans 5y ago> A 2,500 sqft typical suburban US house built after, IDK, 2005, may well not feel bigger than a 1,700 sqft house built with more rooms and more thought to how to best use the space. It's too bad, because you can have tremendous wow factor in a smaller but very smartly designed space. But indeed the cheapest form of wow factor is to supersize the house. This is cheap in design expenditure (AKA less "thought" in the design), but not cheap in in the amount of materials used. In these cases lower quality materials - i.e. non-structural paper-based sheathing, flimsy weather barrier materials, etc - are often used to compensate for the huge size.