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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My friend moved into a brand new build in 2016. It was so trendy and in style, I remember being so envious.

She recently informed me she’s moving back home and put her house up for sale. Nosily, I went in search of the listing on Zillow and I was in SHOCK by how dated everything looked, and it’s only been 7 years!

We live in a nearly 100yo home that we classically updated in a transitional style back in 2009, and I’m blown away by the comparison. Those cheap builder-grade on-trend elements just don’t age well. What a shame!

I’m just trying to imagine all the modern farm houses and those black and white shiplap-style houses in ten years. [/quote]

cool story. You know those "trendy" things that make farmhouse are just veneer and can be changed easily, with less effort and cost than rehabbing a 100-year-old shi!shack. In fact you admit yourself that the 100 year old shi!tshack needed rehabbing which includes core systems, building code, and you can't change things like ceiling heights, waterproofing, layouts as easily

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I'll take a 1920s sh!tstack that has 100 years worth of maintenance and upgrades over a 7 year old builder grade home [/quote]

All day long.

New build is absolute garbage.[/quote]

some people can't think past paint, wood work and veneer finishes, the insides of the 1920s house has major problems to fix would need to tear it down. the new house just needs to change the veneer, paint, decor. people are dumb as they have no idea the house is more than just the veneer.[/quote]

This isn’t true. The houses in the deepest depths of “outdated” right now are 90’s McMansions. They have features like lawyer foyers, cat walks, cavernous living spaces with gigantic, stupid looking Palladian windows etc. Sure you can drywall around the decorative columns but a lot of what makes it dated is built into the house.

I’m not saying those things are so horrible, and you can often get a great long term deal imo by buying the thing that’s not in fashion. But in terms of the market overall, it’s not an easy fix. [/quote]

I agree the 90s McMansions are sort of beyond help. It goes beyond fixtures and design to layout and proportion, and I just have zero interest in living in a home with the proportions of a 90s McMansion. They also often have extremely weird acoustics due to the elements you mentioned -- the two story foyers, massive great rooms with open catwalks for upstairs hallways. And none of it is an easy fix without basically rebuilding the house. Plus in houses like that, even finishes can wind up being expensive to change out because there's so much square footage so putting in hard woods to replace tile and carpet, for instance, can be prohibitively expensive.

But I think this is a different issue than what OP is talking about. I don't hear anyone complaining about the layouts or proportions of these farmhouse-style new builds. I've been in a bunch and while I don't always love the finishes, I think a lot more effort has gone into livability and function than in those old McMansions. And most of the higher end ones have real wood flooring and a lot of kitchen features that I don't think are going out of style -- walk in pantries, floor to ceiling cabinetry, good size islands with bar seating. I have friends who moved into a new build out in Falls Church a few years ago and we have gotten a ton of kitchen renovation ideas for it because I think the kitchen is *perfect*. It's not super trendy except maybe the color choice (dark blue cabinets) but everything else is pretty classic and I think is going to age pretty well.[/quote]

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