Architectural features that should be taken out of rotation

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:i have been humored by this site time and time again. i find that the stuff poeple don't like is the stuff they want but can't have.

Open floor plan with a kitchen visable from the front door? Lived in a house with one. HATED it. No one needs to have their dirty dishes and food smells grewt guests when they wwlk through the door or pop in to say hello.

What I like is a center hall floorplan with spacious defined rooms separated by large double sized door openings and a spacious kitchen with a casual living space and windows.

Kitchen and casual area in the back, defined formal rooms in the front, with some sort of division between the two.

Windows on all sides of the house and good airflow, like they did in the nicer houses before AC.

Anything but a completely or virtually wall less main floor.

First off why do you live like a slob?

I have an open floorplan center hall, did I blow your mind?

No one wants to close each room off, closed off rooms were taken out of rotation decades a go.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Farmhouse sinks. (Does that count as architecture?)

NP here. Can someone tell me the appeal of a farmhouse sink? Even if you have a huge kitchen, what are you doing in there that requires a sink the size of a small bathtub? Everyone on House Hunters wants them, and I can't figure out if they're useful or just hipster. I'm truly curious. Thanks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Farmhouse sinks. (Does that count as architecture?)

NP here. Can someone tell me the appeal of a farmhouse sink? Even if you have a huge kitchen, what are you doing in there that requires a sink the size of a small bathtub? Everyone on House Hunters wants them, and I can't figure out if they're useful or just hipster. I'm truly curious. Thanks.

Do you wash pots or large dishes?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Farmhouse sinks. (Does that count as architecture?)

NP here. Can someone tell me the appeal of a farmhouse sink? Even if you have a huge kitchen, what are you doing in there that requires a sink the size of a small bathtub? Everyone on House Hunters wants them, and I can't figure out if they're useful or just hipster. I'm truly curious. Thanks.

Do you wash pots or large dishes?

NP here. I understand why someone might want a huge sink, but I don't understand wanting the front wall of the sink to show from the counter (rather than have the little flip-down shelf there).

I like my nine-light window, but they're individual lights and the style is appropriate to the era of the house.

You know what no house needs, ever? Octagonal windows. It's not as though they're being done wrong, like Palladian windows. They're just bad.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Farmhouse sinks. (Does that count as architecture?)

NP here. Can someone tell me the appeal of a farmhouse sink? Even if you have a huge kitchen, what are you doing in there that requires a sink the size of a small bathtub? Everyone on House Hunters wants them, and I can't figure out if they're useful or just hipster. I'm truly curious. Thanks.

Do you wash pots or large dishes?

NP here. I understand why someone might want a huge sink, but I don't understand wanting the front wall of the sink to show from the counter (rather than have the little flip-down shelf there).

I like my nine-light window, but they're individual lights and the style is appropriate to the era of the house.

You know what no house needs, ever? Octagonal windows. It's not as though they're being done wrong, like Palladian windows. They're just bad.

Agree on all points. The farmhouse sink drives me crazy. I don't need anything sticking out of my counter, waiting to be bumped into.

[Anonymous]

Np and I hate two story rooms and entrances, looks pompous and leads to a lot of wasted space (and I like big houses).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Np and I hate two story rooms and entrances, looks pompous and leads to a lot of wasted space (and I like big houses).

Space is not really wasted, you can't really put a room up above the foyer, it would just be a 1/2 room open homework area.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Farmhouse sinks. (Does that count as architecture?)

NP here. Can someone tell me the appeal of a farmhouse sink? Even if you have a huge kitchen, what are you doing in there that requires a sink the size of a small bathtub? Everyone on House Hunters wants them, and I can't figure out if they're useful or just hipster. I'm truly curious. Thanks.

Do you wash pots or large dishes?

Not really. My biggest pots and pans fit in my regular sink (which is regular sized, I think). Maybe this changes when the preschoolers get older?

[Anonymous]

Top trends are this, open floor plan with the kitchen as the center point of the house, a great room, 3 car garage, but less 2 story options wanted. Overall people want an open connected home that is less formal and closed off.

http://info.stantonhomes.com/bid/66177/Top-8-New-Home-Trends-Conserving-Space-Lowering-Cost-Saving-Energy

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Np and I hate two story rooms and entrances, looks pompous and leads to a lot of wasted space (and I like big houses).

Space is not really wasted, you can't really put a room up above the foyer, it would just be a 1/2 room open homework area.

Sure you can, we have one currently.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Np and I hate two story rooms and entrances, looks pompous and leads to a lot of wasted space (and I like big houses).

Space is not really wasted, you can't really put a room up above the foyer, it would just be a 1/2 room open homework area. [/quote

Uh oh, someone better tell my MIL this. There's a bedroom currently above her foyer. Not sure how it got there.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:i have been humored by this site time and time again. i find that the stuff poeple don't like is the stuff they want but can't have.

Open floor plan with a kitchen visable from the front door? Lived in a house with one. HATED it. No one needs to have their dirty dishes and food smells grewt guests when they wwlk through the door or pop in to say hello.

What I like is a center hall floorplan with spacious defined rooms separated by large double sized door openings and a spacious kitchen with a casual living space and windows.
Kitchen and casual area in the back, defined formal rooms in the front, with some sort of division between the two.
Windows on all sides of the house and good airflow, like they did in the nicer houses before AC.
Anything but a completely or virtually wall less main floor.

First off why do you live like a slob?
I have an open floorplan center hall, did I blow your mind?

No one wants to close each room off, closed off rooms were taken out of rotation decades a go.

Why are you so weirdly insulted that someone out there thinks that open floor plans are the worst choice floorplan?

It doesn't matter if you are a neat freak or a slob. A kitchen is the most used and most likely to be messy part of the house, just due to how it is used. I don't like walkining into a house, any house, anr have it be the first thing you see.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:i have been humored by this site time and time again. i find that the stuff poeple don't like is the stuff they want but can't have.

Open floor plan with a kitchen visable from the front door? Lived in a house with one. HATED it. No one needs to have their dirty dishes and food smells grewt guests when they wwlk through the door or pop in to say hello.

What I like is a center hall floorplan with spacious defined rooms separated by large double sized door openings and a spacious kitchen with a casual living space and windows.

Kitchen and casual area in the back, defined formal rooms in the front, with some sort of division between the two.

Windows on all sides of the house and good airflow, like they did in the nicer houses before AC.

Anything but a completely or virtually wall less main floor.

First off why do you live like a slob?

I have an open floorplan center hall, did I blow your mind?

No one wants to close each room off, closed off rooms were taken out of rotation decades a go.

I lived in Europe in a huge pre-war place with a long, huge center hall that the rooms opened off of on either side of it -- so each of them, for example the living room and kitchen, had doors that closed them off from this central hall. I LOVED it. Really, truly, loved that space. And, believe it or not, it was a great place to entertain. You just opened up the doors to the living spaces and people meandered about from living room to kitchen to dining room, or hung out in the hallway.

I've seen one house like that in this area, a huge 19th century mansion. The people who live there are never going to move, however. Sigh.....

[Anonymous]

Look at any new house in Potomac and McLean - all of it should be taken out of rotation! The columns, ridiculous circular drives....

[Anonymous]

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I've seen one house like that in this area, a huge 19th century mansion. The people who live there are never going to move, however. Sigh.....

Crouch under their windows at night and make scary noises. Maybe they'll think their place is haunted.