The first two houses look like prefabs.
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how well is it built? way too much of america is form over substance. i wish there are more affordable, prefabricated, steel-framed box houses on the market, with living, family & bed-rooms facing onto a scenic backyard of planted trees, and kitchen, toilets, utility rooms on the street side.
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Yeah most prefabs lack style.
Unfortunate, hopefully cheap for current owner as it will be cheap for next owner due to curb appeal missing
Where, what city ?
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They look like someone added a second story to a ranch.
Around here everything is priced per linear foot so it doesn't matter how many bump outs and corners there are.
Around here everything is priced per linear foot so it doesn't matter how many bump outs and corners there are.
Efficient and cheap to build without many corners. 8’ ceilings-hard pass.
There are but they're found in California and New England.
Contrasting trim would help a lot. As-is, the garage door looks like a blank wall. Garage door windows would also help.
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Yup agreed.
I am not a snob and would buy houses like these if priced right. But it makes no sense to build generic houses these days with land scarcity
Those windows over the garage are too prominent - that part of the house looks surprised.
The area around the front door is very intricate, and contrasts unpleasantly with the simplicity of the rest of the house.
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You guys talking about curb appeal... I was looking at several custom builders and their designs have no consideration for the owners.
Big beautiful house with the heat pump next to the master bedroom window right where your headboard would be.
In the old days on the east coast the same and the heater and then indoor well pump right under the the master bedroom in the basement.
Stupid thoughtless builders..
Big beautiful house with the heat pump next to the master bedroom window right where your headboard would be.
In the old days on the east coast the same and the heater and then indoor well pump right under the the master bedroom in the basement.
Stupid thoughtless builders..
Florida has strict rules about garage doors. In a hurricane it is common for the garage door to fail, then when wind gets inside the whole house blows apart.
A talented painter could put the windows and interesting stuff inside the windows on the garage doors.Would be kind of cool if the garage door had matching windows!
figure you aint familiar with Fla hurricane windows... house in photo might be designed around standard sized impact resistant glass which are much cheaper than custom sized hurricane glass... For an idea of costs, I had 9 Miami Dade rated ( Miami Dade Code is even higher and more restrictive than standard hurricane window code) windows installed and I spent $11,000 dollars.. that was 2018 price.. so that might be in there if the guy was doing affordable and still wanted some daylight in the house.
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