I hate columns

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Anonymous wrote:If I were you I would just look for different home. There is a whole bunch of buyers who loves the Colonials just as they are with their round columns that in many cases are an integral part of the design. It is in a way classic style that once you start changing you are destroying the integrity of it. It is just as many reasonable people put so much care to preserve certain homes be it old craftsman or tis or that style. Home is often about the consistency and integrity of overall style.
It is very possible that your chasing most modern look will be outdated in the next ten years and next buyer won't buy your home with square columns or pillars and would much rather had round ones. Since so many people really do not care or like or are not bother with the round columns, please for the sake of preservation do move to the next house that you won't need to gut for the sake of progress. It is becoming insanely wasteful, total waste of resources and very unsustainable in home industry when everything is beginning to be so outdated in five minutes.. look what is happening to marble flooring, granite countertops, beautiful wooden cabinets that are just out because everyone is starting the cookie cutter style that is gobbling anything different. There is such a thing as ugly and mismatch, but there is such a thing as thoughtful consistent design and some, lots of people would rather have this then random act of derogating for the sake of progress that is going through the motions.

A 90s house with interior faux wood columns isn't anyone's idea of a classic style.

But it probably will be in 10 years.

No, everyone realizes that those things are awful in an American home.

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Anonymous wrote:I have seen a few remodels in other areas where the owner puts back a wall that goes about 1/2 the length. This keeps the support in the necessary place, gives the room more definition but doesn't block it off as much as doing complete length walls with small doorways. This works for those ugly style 90s houses where you walk in and the living room is on one side of the entry and the dining room is on another and there are a bunch of support columns.

For bathrooms with columns, these are usually faux not structural but if they are structural then doing a full remodel and putting in walls for the tub area is an option. I have also seen designers use built in shelving and wood mantles and faux stone to get rid of the two story marble fireplace landing strips that were so popular in the 90s.

Despite everyone complaining about how expensive the DMV is, it is actually super cheap compared to other cities/burbs. There are enough new builds at prices lower then the cost of buying a 90s house and completely updating it so in this area the 90s houses are unlike to get upgraded anytime soon.

Super cheap?

Chicago, Miami, Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, Atlanta, Nashville, Charlotte, Phoenix, Las Vegas, Pittsburgh- all cheaper

Boston, LA, Portland, Denver - similar

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have seen a few remodels in other areas where the owner puts back a wall that goes about 1/2 the length. This keeps the support in the necessary place, gives the room more definition but doesn't block it off as much as doing complete length walls with small doorways. This works for those ugly style 90s houses where you walk in and the living room is on one side of the entry and the dining room is on another and there are a bunch of support columns.

For bathrooms with columns, these are usually faux not structural but if they are structural then doing a full remodel and putting in walls for the tub area is an option. I have also seen designers use built in shelving and wood mantles and faux stone to get rid of the two story marble fireplace landing strips that were so popular in the 90s.

Despite everyone complaining about how expensive the DMV is, it is actually super cheap compared to other cities/burbs. There are enough new builds at prices lower then the cost of buying a 90s house and completely updating it so in this area the 90s houses are unlike to get upgraded anytime soon.

Super cheap?

Chicago, Miami, Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, Atlanta, Nashville, Charlotte, Phoenix, Las Vegas, Pittsburgh- all cheaper

Boston, LA, Portland, Denver - similar

I also disagree that it's super cheap, the inner burbs are expensive. Not Palo Alto expensive, but enough that it puts upper income folks in precarious financial straights. However with all the high paying jobs along the Dulles corridor in VA and other NoVA locations, the ability to generate high income outside the beltway as compared to housing costs outside the beltway is super cheap. I'm not saying I'm the norm, but both DH are in tech, have never had to work closer in than Tysons and have a combined HHI of 600k and mortgage on a SFH of $2,600. We've never commuted more than 30min to work (when not WFH) unless there is an accident. I'd say it very easy for an educated 2 income home to make 300k in tech in Reston and find a nice SFH in Loudoun County in an excellent school pyramid for 650k. My entry level out of college new hires make 70k/yr. It doesn't take terribly long for them to break 6 figures.