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To me it sounds mostly like you're describing a well-planned Victorian. There's of course some unpleasant cross-pollination with McMansion designs, but the more
by crooked-v 3y ago
To me it sounds mostly like you're describing a well-planned Victorian. There's of course some unpleasant cross-pollination with McMansion designs, but the more sensible floor plans still follow the practice of a bunch of smallish, specialized but not hyper-specialized, efficiently laid-out rooms that are easy to move between.
- revolvingocelot 3y agoIt's worth pointing out that nobody is building "well-planned Victorian" houses, either.
- crooked-v 3y agoOf course, another question there is, how much of that is the result of local zoning and permitting processes banning all the stuff that people actually like? I know I've seen a lot of complaints about basic stuff with stairs, windows, and bedroom sizes in older plans that have been rendered illegal by newer zoning.
- revolvingocelot 3y agoI haven't seen such complaints about basic stuff. Maybe it's just my own bias, but whenever I see people complaining about "regulations" choking out The Way Things Used To Be, it's usually actually about cost to the producer, whether houses or soda or anything else. See this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35894852 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35894852 Everything that made century homes desirable isn't mass-producible, and therefore untenable.