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Megillah Gorilla posted:Just saw this in rental listings: This house is literally loss.jpg
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perfect place to park this
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May 8, 2019 17:11
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Megillah Gorilla posted:Just saw this in rental listings: For a second I thought it was a loss edit.
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May 8, 2019 17:16
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denver.jpg Here is what that boxhaus used to be  All 1920s craftsman bungalows shall be assimilated 
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May 9, 2019 04:11
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also portland.jpg That fence is seriously offensive to me. Looks like poo poo AND no one else in the neighborhood seems to have their front yard enclosed like that...
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May 9, 2019 04:47
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Youth Decay posted:denver.jpg Also in Denver and I've been thinking lately. I get why the bungalows aren't popular. Small bedrooms with small closets, closed floor plans, smaller square footage, older homes that are expensive to heat and don't cool usually. Or maybe they're popular enough but there's more to be made on the cube houses. But why aren't there any updated styles of bungalow being built? Same character of the neighborhood with modern styled floor plans, good insulation and windows? Bump the square footage obviously but keep the local look?
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May 9, 2019 04:55
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StormDrain posted:Also in Denver and I've been thinking lately. I get why the bungalows aren't popular. Small bedrooms with small closets, closed floor plans, smaller square footage, older homes that are expensive to heat and don't cool usually. Or maybe they're popular enough but there's more to be made on the cube houses. Mcmansions make the builder more money.
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May 9, 2019 05:09
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Most architectural styles that become an area vernacular were just the cheapest thing to build at the time that lasted to the present day. Something newer is cheaper now and gets built instead. This is the core of replacement cost versus reproduction cost, where getting a craftsman built with modern materials is going to cost more than the boxy form and is unlikely to capture that premium in the sales price.
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May 9, 2019 05:15
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Things I miss about Colorado: The beer The weed The climate Municipal gigabit fiber Things I don't miss about Colorado: Californians Anything to do with real estate or money Californians
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May 9, 2019 05:16
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Youth Decay posted:denver.jpg I just want to scream at it and never stop screaming. That poor house. 
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May 9, 2019 06:08
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Youth Decay posted:denver.jpg You know what, I like it Its me, the guy with lovely modernist tastes that thing is marketed to
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May 9, 2019 06:17
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Youth Decay posted:denver.jpg I know it's probably a local ordinances thing, but fences that aren't right up against the footpath and have that six inches of meh along their entire length look so bad. Wait a couple of weeks and nasty thistles are going to start growing in the narrow stone bed and will never stop coming back. Plus all those little stones are going to end up underfoot and eventually makes their way to the nature strip to be caught while mowing and smack the owner in the shins at a million miles an hour.
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May 9, 2019 06:25
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help it along by blowing dandelions nearby
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May 9, 2019 06:26
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Youth Decay posted:denver.jpg The shipping container aesthetic is strong. I wouldn't want to live in a shipping container.
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May 9, 2019 10:41
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Platystemon posted:
If blocking the road is that annoying I'm surprised nobody comes along in the night and pulls it away. Edit: just looked at the other pic. All you'd need to do would be to come along with a spanner and remove all the nuts, then use a crowbar to lift the corner up an inch. ~Coxy fucked around with this message at 12:15 on May 9, 2019 |
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May 9, 2019 12:12
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Nevermind blocking the road, it's in the UK, I'm surprised it lasted the first Friday night.
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May 9, 2019 12:22
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If that was on my commute it'd be maybe a month before I took a midnight stroll with a spanner.
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May 9, 2019 12:28
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My Lovely Horse posted:Nevermind blocking the road, it's in the UK, I'm surprised it lasted the first Friday night. It's in the rear end end of scotland, maybe they do things differently there.
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May 9, 2019 12:35
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StormDrain posted:Also in Denver and I've been thinking lately. I get why the bungalows aren't popular. Small bedrooms with small closets, closed floor plans, smaller square footage, older homes that are expensive to heat and don't cool usually. Or maybe they're popular enough but there's more to be made on the cube houses. You seem to have a weird conception of craftsman bungalows. The only way that describes our 1920s craftsman is that the kitchen is closed off from the dining room by a wall. They tend to have a more open floor plan than other styles of the era because the living room and dining room are one space and the bedrooms open right into the common rooms. If the crawl space, attic and windows are properly maintained they're not any harder to heat or cool than average build quality modern housing. If anything being single story makes them easier to cool. Like another poster said, there are companies that build craftsman bungalows. They're just more expensive to build than cookie cutter mcmansions.
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May 9, 2019 12:44
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Bungalows are terrible because they are small and cramped because for some reason, people think it's good to try to fit everything into a single floor. Or even if there is an upstairs, there are still rooms downstairs wasting space.
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May 9, 2019 13:27
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StormDrain posted:Also in Denver and I've been thinking lately. I get why the bungalows aren't popular. Small bedrooms with small closets, closed floor plans, smaller square footage, older homes that are expensive to heat and don't cool usually. Or maybe they're popular enough but there's more to be made on the cube houses. Stuff like this? https://thebungalowcompany.com/house-plan/
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May 9, 2019 14:11
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StormDrain posted:Also in Denver and I've been thinking lately. I get why the bungalows aren't popular. Small bedrooms with small closets, closed floor plans, smaller square footage, older homes that are expensive to heat and don't cool usually. Or maybe they're popular enough but there's more to be made on the cube houses. A few years ago, one of the blocks near my house was in a state of decay - it was all rotten Victorian-era tenements, a couple boarded up commercial buildings, ugly vacant postwar houses, and empty overgrown lots. Then a developer came along, bulldozed everything, and...  ...built all these adorable little cottages  They are not quite bungalows, but bungalows weren't really a thing here in Pittsburgh. You had lots of modest two story worker houses like this, many built in the 1910's and 20's (and often had Craftsman detailing). These new houses are quite reminiscent of that style housing. This side of town isn't on fire (yet), so new development is actually sane, and it's not typically profitable to scrape a perfectly habitable house and replace it, so you see mostly gut remodels. The tech/hipster-infested neighborhoods is where you see the interesting old rowhouses getting bungled up by lovely flippers or outright replaced by overpriced modern boxes. Also it helps that the cool thing to do here is to buy a cruddy old Victorian and fix it up instead of overpaying for some dumb trendy box, though it's getting more and more difficult to find un-flipped fixer uppers.
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May 9, 2019 15:59
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Hooray for acceptable modest architecture and a reasonable massing of housing.
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May 9, 2019 16:03
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This thing just went up for sale in my town...I thought it was a commercial office or something at first, nope, it's a single family 4br house. Here's the listing - it's up for $2MM which is 500K-1MM higher than every other house in that neighbourhood. The agent said they're "marketing it to out of towners from New York or the west coast" so maybe I just don't get it
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May 9, 2019 16:11
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It's like Cameron's house but not nearly as good.
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May 9, 2019 16:28
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Wow, that definitely looks like the sort of structure you find adjacent to a strip mall, probably housing a dentist or a branch of a credit union.
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May 9, 2019 16:40
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The Glumslinger posted:You know what, I like it I don't like this one, but there's something in that style in my neighborhood that I do like. It helps that they didn't dig up everything green around it and replace it with gravel. Just having some plants around makes it fit into the neighborhood better so it's more of a quirky feature than an incongruous behemoth.
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May 9, 2019 16:41
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The explosion of commercial architecture in residential design is something that makes me so upset. You'll see these big square all-glass-fronted buildings with 24/7 flood lighting shining down from the sofits to illuminate the facade, ground lighting to show off all the concrete sculptures in the front yard. Lit window displays showing some extremely generic pottery arts in little display windows. You'd think it was a little museum or a professional building or an art store or something? Nope, it's a house, because houses now need to look like fancy hotels or retail.
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May 9, 2019 16:56
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They say you shouldn't bring your work home with you. Never expected that idea to become quite so literal.
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May 9, 2019 17:00
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totalnewbie posted:Bungalows are terrible because they are small and cramped because for some reason, people think it's good to try to fit everything into a single floor. Nah, gently caress stairs
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May 9, 2019 17:04
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Motronic posted:It's like Cameron's house but not nearly as good. Needs a Ferrari through the glass.
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May 9, 2019 17:04
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Youth Decay posted:denver.jpg I absolutely can not stand when realtors photoshop the sky in pictures
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May 9, 2019 17:09
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Tiny Lowtax posted:I absolutely can not stand when realtors photoshop the sky in pictures Yeah. The contrast is cranked up so hard on the first image that it looks like the wooden boards on the roof overhang have mildew on them already.
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May 9, 2019 17:10
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Dude, make that a link and mark it NSFW.
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May 9, 2019 17:10
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GotLag posted:Nah, gently caress stairs yeah seriously, there's no limit on square footage of a bungalo either, nor do rooms have to be small, the main advantage of building up is that it can be used to limit suburban sprawl which is 100% cool and good, but like, stairs suck stairs kill 12,000 people annually
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Leperflesh posted:stairs kill 12,000 people annually Replace the stairs with a ramp. You can slide down them, and if you want to go up there's a winch, tow rope, and a section of carpet to sit on.
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May 9, 2019 17:17
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if I had a 2+ story home I legit want a fireman's pole
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May 9, 2019 17:27
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Leperflesh posted:stairs kill 12,000 people annually 21,000 people annually fall victim to the terrible secret of space.
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Leperflesh posted:
If anything we need more stairs. I like having my bedrooms all upstairs and my living spaces all downstairs. It makes my room feel more private.
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