What house trends do you hate?

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Anonymous wrote:One room living. The new McCraftsmans with the open kitchen/eating/family room. And all with 10ft ceilings for max noise. High ceilings are nice, but an entire one room without a sense of separation and noise management. Terrible.

Open kitchen/family rooms are fantastic; that's why most new houses have them. People don't want to be stuck in the kitchen cut off from the rest of the family. Or do you have staff cook for you?

They have their pros but they have their cons too. We have an open kitchen/dining/family room space and I grew to resent it. The noise level makes it uncomfortable for all but one person. When someone is cooking, the noise of the running water or exhaust hood make TV watching and conversations strained. When DS is doing homework at the kitchen table, he has to battle distraction from the TV or other people talking or running by him. It sounds nice but the reality is different. In my next house, I'll have a similarly large kitchen open to the dining room but cut off from the living space. I don't mind spending time in my beautiful kitchen. If the rest of the family wants to join me there, they are welcome.

The reality is great. There are other places for kids to do their homework.

I'm sure that's true, and here is where we confront the reality that separate spaces for separate things to do sometimes work better.

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Hate open floor plans. I like to close the doors from the kitchen to the dining room so my guests and I aren't staring at the pots and pans and piled up dishes as we finish our dinner. I like to close the doors from the kitchen to the family room so the TV watcher isn't disturbed by the dishwasher or the homework doer isn't disturbed by the TV. And I like that you don't see the whole house from the entry foyer so that the Amazon guy isn't checking out the place from the front door or the unannounced parent or neighbor stopping by doesn't see what a wreck the house is at the time.

Mark my words - the next generation of homeowners will be putting up all the walls that you all have been tearing down over the last few years.

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Anonymous wrote:Interior columns. I’m not an Ancient Greek.

Then away with indoor plumbing too! Those Romans and their "let's bring water into the city" idea.. ugh..

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Anonymous wrote:If you don't like gray walls, then what color would you suggest instead? Doesn't it pretty much have to be either beige or gray for much of the home?

White. All over the place. Ceilings too.
See: Expensive classy homes.

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Asymmetrical fronts. If it has to be asymmetrical then at least it has to be balanced visually in some way.

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Any area that runs through two story, especially horrible gigantic living rooms and chimney cold foyers. Leave them to gigantic homes
but no way in the single family home at or around 1M.

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The idea of open floors came from the fact that most people do not cook at home so there is no issue
of the smells traveling everywhere and being sucked up upstairs to the bedrooms. No matter the vent,
the smell and greasy air always travel and deposits fatty residue everywhere.

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Tinny square tiles for kitchen backsplash.

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Wall to wall carpeting in any area. Including staircase.
Small bedrooms.
Bedrooms with V slanted ceilings.
Bedrooms with celiing slanted on one saide only /.
Natural or stained wood color cabinets in the kitchen. Any wood, any color.
Tiles in the kitchen.
Ceramic tiles anywhere, floor or walls.
Vinyl floors anywhere.
Engineered wood.
Ugly railings.
Railings of different color then floors.
Stairs in your face right after you enter the foyer.
Angled walls anywhere.

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Anonymous wrote:The ugly garages being front and center. Why why why???? Why make those the absolute focus and center of the house? They are ugly. They should be in the back tucked away.

I also hate faux everything. Vinyl siding meant to look like wood. Fake stones stuck on top of your facade instead of being the actual wall. Fake wood floors. Formica or quartz made to look like other stone... what's wrong with quartz? It's own qualities are quite nice. Stop faking it. Even newer materials have some redeeming qualities and should stop perpetrating a fraud. It looks CHEAP and feels gross.

My wife hates front-and-center garages, and I'll admit that they're not my favorite. But as for why... if you look at the houses where they exist, it's usually because the frontage of the lot doesn't allow room to get the cars over to the side or rear of the home. The only way to access a garage is to have it right in front, off the street. The solution is stay away from neighborhoods developed like that, but sometimes there's no good solution for a garage.

Front garages - good thing about them is safety and easy access, bad thing about them is they are usually build into the cube of the house
and harmful fumes can get into the house.

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Anonymous wrote:I hate front loading garages with a passion. I would never buy a house with one.

I hate the "modern farmhouse" trend. Classic farmhouses are nice but I'm talking about the McMansions that are built to resemble one but don't quite make it. Hope that trend dies out soon.

For instance I think these are so fugly:





I don't mind white kitchens but I hope the white on white on white trend everywhere else dies out soon.

I actually like that second home, not sure what's so offensive about it. Then again, I don't faint at the first sight of grey paint...

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I hate the ripping out of everything charming and replacing it with marble and gray floors. Yuck.

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Anonymous wrote:Wall to wall carpeting in any area. Including staircase.
Small bedrooms.
Bedrooms with V slanted ceilings.
Bedrooms with celiing slanted on one saide only /.
Natural or stained wood color cabinets in the kitchen. Any wood, any color.
Tiles in the kitchen.
Ceramic tiles anywhere, floor or walls.
Vinyl floors anywhere.
Engineered wood.
Ugly railings.
Railings of different color then floors.
Stairs in your face right after you enter the foyer.
Angled walls anywhere.

angry?