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[quote=Anonymous]I live in a neighborhood of homes mostly built in the early 40's.  There are lots of cape cods and colonials, the occasional bungalow, tudor, Craftsman or farmhouse, and very few ranch houses or split levels.  The features I love include:
- tudor houses with the narrow peaked roof, wood beam detailing, unique window mullions and doors with rounded tops.
- working shutters and sometimes window boxes
- inside: crown moldings, nice baseboard moldings, chair rails, wainscotting, arched doorways, windows that are not all the same size/shape.  Window seats, etc.  Solid wood doors with panes instead of plain hollow-core doors.  
- I think sloped ceilings and dormer windows and weird angles can be neat features that are a little more interesting than just 4 plain, straight walls at right angles, with a normal ceiling.

My house was built in 1942 so it has the original features on the main level, but it's also been bumped out on the main level and the upper level was bumped out for more ceiling height.  I've been gradually making cosmetic changes to get rid of 80's elements in the house (shiny fake brass sconces, hollow doors) to make the rest of the house more consistent with the original house.  I do wish we had more closet space, newer plumbing and better wiring, but some of that stuff I can change and some I just live with.

Where I would never live: a cookie-cutter subdivision where every house looks a lot like its neighbor, where architectural details are kind of thrown on at random (with no regard to whether they belong on a house), or in a house that didn't have an actual architectural style.  Some of the newer homes are such a mishmash of things.[/quote]

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