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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]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:

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

Yes to all of this. [/quote]
We've used white and gray for decades, it's always a beautiful combination. Cream is also nice. Kitchens shall be white or need to be remodeled every 8 years. Craftsman is the best style to stay timeless because it bridges the gap between farmhouse and colonial. Sears homes and Massachusetts is the Craftsman and it's 100s of years old.
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Craftsman is early 20th century, not 100s of years old.  Craftsman doesn't bridge any gap between farmhouse and colonial style homes, it's a unique style. Kitchens don't need to be remodeled every 8 years if they're not white.   You're just...really wrong.[/quote]

Craftsman has been in style since 1890s and a farm is 1000 years old, open a book or Wikipedia you moron

The American Craftsman style (along with a wide variety of related but conceptually distinct European design movements) was developed out of the British Arts and Crafts movement, which began as early as the 1860s.[1][/quote]

Lordy, you're thick.  A farm is 1000 years old!?  Did you read that on Wikipedia too? You have no idea what you're talking about and you're barely coherent.  You said (or you tried to say) that Sears homes in Massachusetts are hundreds of years old.  They are from the 20th century.  FWIW, the craftsman style didn't take off in the US until the Gamble House and the Marston houses (mansions) were built in SoCal, both in 1908 by different firms.  Then smaller craftsman neighborhoods started appearing, with homes first designed by architects, then by master builders, and eventually as a kit you could order from the Sears catalog.  American Craftsman is a distinct style that has nothing to do with the colonial architecture that preceded it or the colonial revival that followed.  There is no "farmhouse style" architecture unless you mean vernacular buildings?  There are a lot of interesting scholarly articles you can read about historical home styles in the US.  Try one of those, not wikipedia.  Or for an informative survey, you can read "A Field Guide to American Houses."  It is the standard for anyone who cares to learn about American residential architecture.  [/quote]

The Craftsman movement was part of a larger stylistic arts and crafts movement that also included the American Shingle style, which dates back to the 1880s (even late 1870s). There's a lot of overlap between Craftsman and Shingle which is why these days most Shingle houses for sale are advertised as Craftsmen, which isn't entirely correct. And the Shingle style borrowed many colonial and Georgian elements (as did the British arts & crafts styles). Nonetheless, most styles, including most craftsmen buildings, were rarely "pure" and could and did integrate stylistic elements of other styles. So it's not something to get uptight about, methinks. [/quote]

Of course architecture does not evolve in a vacuum, but architecture historians disagree with you: the Arts and Crafts movement does not encompass shingle style.  There may be some similarities and overlap in aesthetic or approach, but they began as two unique movements.  The Arts and Crafts movement migrated to the US from Great Britain, but shingle style is American and evolved from colonial architecture before Arts and Crafts made it across the pond to be interpreted as American Craftsman architecture.  Before the Arts and Crafts movement crossed the pond, it was very influenced by earlier architecture of the British Isles - medieval, tudor, and gothic, but not Georgian and of course not colonial.  [/quote]

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