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Amityville is @3:37
I live in a 16 story, Oceanview full-service building, on Millionaire's Row/Collins, 3-5 blocks from Foutainblue, Miami Beach. The unit is 1,000 sqft, two bedrooms. My building has car valets, restaurant, front desk, media room, pool, gym, steam room, yoga room, back yard barbeques etc. Plus over 40, full time staff, for the 170 units. Sadly, now our 2025 monthly HOA dues, will rise to $2,000 monthly; this started at $580 when I moved there, 12 years ago.
These are normal older homes in the USA.
The home I grew up in was huge. But my grandfather built it. My grandmother owned the property of half the block we lived in. So we owned alot of properties. But my bedroom was huge, I had my own bathroom everything.
The houses with a flat roof are often found in states that tend to be dry. The high pitched houses are usually found in areas that it snows a lot
Yeah, the one he paused on when he asked about puddles, was obviously located in the Southwest, where it only rains a couple of times a year.
With that said, a lot of commercial buildings have flat roofs even in places that get Lake Effect snow.
And rains.
@jonadabtheunsightly they're not actually flat and They only appear that way. They have a drain on top and a gentle slope
@@jonadabtheunsightlyyep...used to live in Albuquerque and you're spot on
@@meomy29Rain doesn't pile up to be potentially several feet deep on top of a roof, unless the whole neighborhood is flooded to that depth (in which case, a sloped roof doesn't help that much). Yes, areas that get lake effect snow also get rain, but that's missing the point of why I mentioned lake effect.
That $1,537.00 was a kit. You could actually order a house from Montgomery Ward or Sears. The parts would all be pre-cut and would be delivered to your site. Then a contractor would build it for you. Back before they had kids, my brother and his wife bought an engineered [factory built] 2 story log cabin, and had it built on a mountain in New Hampshire.
My grandfather had a sears home built it himself was made better than most the places I've lived
They also sold kit barns, garages, cottages, etc. back in the day. But then you used to be able to buy a Thompson Submachine gun in the Sears catalog at one time...
@@george217damn what the .....
The log cabin you liked…. Dependent bond where is that would probably cost way over $1 million dollars .
Think "House by Ikea". It's name is Frederick. And it's held together by cam-locks. 😋
My favorite is the Farmhouse with a wrap around porch. Sears and Robuck sold kits for houses. The kit included everything you needed for a finished home, or you could buy portions of the kit. My dad built our house in 1978 it cost $23,000, it's a 3 bedroom ranch.
Gosh I WISH they were still that affordable! I could actually afford to build at prices up to 100k 😂 but you need 3x that nearly now.
I live in an A Frame cabin on 11 acres of woods in Michigan. Our house has 2 floors and a basement. Since we are a ways out from the main town, the only noise you hear is nature. It is really relaxing.
Fun fact: 90% of the tile used on the roofs in the US Southwest are made in my hometown. Ludowici Roof Tile. Expensive AF for the nicer tiles, but they'll survive some seriously high wind.
I built a small mid century modern home on one of Minnesotas 10,000 lakes. I retired early and share the home with my two dogs. I’m 15 minutes from the Twin Cities, yet I’m able to enjoy my coffee in the morning with loons and bald eagles.
Most “flat roofs” are actually sloped 2 to 5 degrees so water will run off but it still appears modern and flat to the eye
A friend of mine bought a house with a flat roof and it was a nightmare. I think it settled so parts of the roof would have standing water and would leak. She eventually replaced the roof but for a while there I did not envy home ownership from my NYC apartment.
I live in a Craftsman style house, built in 1919, on 10 acres, then surrounded by corn fields, in rural central Texas. Almost geographically centered in the state
oh wow. some of those turn of the century texas craftsmans are awesome. jealous! lol
My husband and I (from San Antonio) just drove around Texas 2 wks ago. We made a 2-day trip from San Antonio to Ausin, then Austin to Abilene. Next day, Abilene to Fort Work for the rodeo, then after the rodeo we drove back home. The open skies and beautiful yellow and white wildflowers along our highways are breathtaking heading out toward Tom Green County/San Angelo. Sometimes we have to admire our home states. ❤ And the amount of vineyards they put out in the Hill Country shocked me. Lol
While I like different styles of homes, craftsman homes are definitely my favorite. Absolutely beautiful!
The houses you see with the flat roofs are in places like Palm Springs and Arizona places that are dryer and have a very low volume of rain yearly.
And although the roof is flat it is lightly sloped to facilitate rain runoff or collection. Usually a parapet styel roof as well.
In southern California there were some track homes built with nearly flat roofs. I think they were built in the 60s, early 70s. It was a "modern" look back then. As a kid I thought they were ugly because they were dated. Now that they are over 50 years old, maybe they would look "vintage" rather than dated.
That house that was listed for $1537,00 is a house from the Sears and Roebuck catalog. You were sent a kit that you had to put together. No kidding. you had to assemble it yourself.
The ikea of homes lol think Menards still sells kits
Or you hired a contractor to assemble it, but in that case it no longer cost $1537. That price was just for the stuff, not the finished building.
Menards has something like that today.
19 years ago we built our dream home, a classic Craftsman “Neo” bungalow. Standing on our porch during construction I suddenly realized I was building my grandmother’s little house with it’s wide porch and under the rafters bedrooms. I always loved visiting her and staying there. Funny how a childhood experience can come back to influence you 40 years later.
Our home is a mid-century modern ranch. We bought it for location (always) but also for only being one floor. We plan to renovate the house (I love Tudor style), but also live as long as we can here. Having seen elderly pets, and now elderly family members, who cannot manage even the smallest step, whatever we do, we won't add any steps or a second floor. One day it will be us not able to handle stairs.
I want an mcm ranch and restore it to original
I have the same style home and I bought mine for the same reason: no stairs. I have health issues that cause chronic pain in my legs so stairs would be excruciating. Thankfully I don't have to go to the basement much.
My Aunt Lucy's house is on a 225 acre farm in Kentucky . It was built of logs around 20 feet long with a diameter of about 18 inches in 1812 and was originally a stage coach stop .My house is on a barrier beach island off the south shore of Long Island , New York. It was built in 1935 in a Southwestern Spanish stucco style and has 4 bedrooms , 3 bathrooms , living room , dining room , den , a walk in pantry , two wine cellars ,and 2 kitchens with a separate large 2 car garage .
We live in a 3 bedroom, 1 bath, 1000 sq ft ranch style house built in the 1970's. It's a densely populated area so our yard is smaller than we'd like but it's big enough for a pool, shed and chicken yard with some grass area left. We also take full advantage of the side yards! One side is storage for yard tools, canoe, small shed with the generator, wheelbarrows etc. The other side has an outdoor kitchen with a refrigerator, flat top, smoker and grill. We've turned the garage into my husbands man cave with instruments, speakers for music and karaoke, tvs for football Sunday get togethers, etc.
Since we were a military family, we lived in 14 states plus Europe. That means I have lived in nearly every style of middle income house, from ranch to three story with five bedrooms. I definitely had a favorite that surprised me: a manufactured home. It was the most comfortable, efficient and easiest to maintain of all the houses we owned. If the Star Trek transporter had been real, I would have beamed that house with us everywhere we moved.
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I live in North Carolina, I had my house built it 2015 and it is a story and a half. Vinyl siding with a brick foundation and around 3200 sq ft. The best part is I am on 69 acres surrounded by woods and about 1/4 of a mile off the road. Love it, horses, cows, chickens, dogs, and quail. Always something to do...
Okay, my last comment for this video. You have to realize in the US. We have all kinds of temperatures and weather changes. For example, California New Mexico very seldom sees rain or any snow. Although the mountains in California can get snow in those places. You can get flat roofs. Because it buries seldom gets rain whereas, in the Northeast in the Midwest. You get tornadoes and your house has to be built accordingly.And in the South, they have not very solid grounds, so they can't build basements.There's just so many regions that affect how they build these houses
There is drainage on the roof.
It depends on where you live in The South. Southerner here and we have a BASEMENT!! 🤨
@@cynsi7604You're right but the comment was just talking generally
That is so true. In Michigan, where I live, we cannot have flat roofs because of snow. I do have a wonderful basement that is complete with an another living room and two more bedrooms. This makes my home three floors. Where I live we have a lot of land too. I am so blessed and so is my family.
The south has basements. We're not all full of soft and moist land. I'm in GA and I have a basement.
That last house type is also known as Plantation, because that's the style of house the slave/plantation owners lived in (a lot of them are now declared landmarks and used as event spaces, mainly for weddings).
To answer your question: I live in a townhouse (though we call them rowhomes around here lol)
The interiors of victorian homes are so awesome. They are interesting and intricate. I like the details. And i really love colorful things. Not usually on my house exterior BUT most victorian homes in my area are considered “historic homes” and are protected by the local government and restrict the alterations allowed, including exterior paint colors.
Farm houses had oversized kitchen sinks because the farmers had to clean and process a lot of food in them for preservation as they came out of the fields, as well as a lot of meats. The log cabin is my favorite as well. I've always wanted one. I have a 1965 split level. That is a 2 story house with a landing at the front door with stairs that will take you to the upstairs or the downstairs. So you actually enter the house between floors. Getting older and considering retirement in several years I think my final house is either going to be a log cabin in the woods or a rancher in Florida. I haven't decided which. I like the idea of no snow in a Florida Ranch home but I also like the peace and quiet that would come with a log cabin in the mountains. Either way it's going to be one floor so there are no steps to contend with when I'm older.
That type of door is a double door, where usually only one side is used. But if one needs to move very bulky furniture, one can undo the normally static side, and have both sides open.
This isn't Britain, we have places without rain. I prefer a home with land around it. Row houses suck. Don't forget, we have the open space here. My favorite house is a house where you can't see the neighbors house.
part of the "copy paste" look in antebellum houses like that is because they're adhering to Georgian or Federal architectural design standards, which are intended to be heavily symmetrical, and/or at one point (I wanna say 18th century, could be 19th), some areas levied a tax according to how many windows you had. (I think that happened in the UK too, which is why you'd see old buildings with odd rectangular patches of brick insert that didnt match the rest of the building. window deletion lol). didnt say anything about doors though, so as is common in many New Orleans and Mississippi delta styles, there are rows of shuttered "doors" instead of windows. sometimes having a LOT of windows was a flex for rich landowners--lookit how many windows I can have on MY McMansion lol. putting them in the same places on each floor let more light in, got better cross-ventilation through the house, was easier to build cause the floorplan didnt have 40 different angles, and probably most commonly--again, particularly for houses in the South--there are center double doors on an upper floor as well for access to the verandas. the South is hot af with 99% humidity and no one had HVAC back then lol.
We live in a story and a half old schoolhouse built in 1898. We’ve lived here 30 years. It’s situated in the country on a corner. It consists of approximately 50 trees various types on 3/4 acres. This home is not by any means one of luxury. It’s practical.
I lucked out and bought my first and hopefully forever home in 2020. (Prices and interest rates were WAY down. My home has nearly doubled in value since!) It's a midcentury ranch with a huge basement and garage. Even has a little tiny house in the back. I have a sizable backyard. Lots of trees. Less than 20 minutes away from New York City. I wouldn't change it for anything! Love your videos, by the way. It makes me realize how truly fortunate I am AND makes me see that my "normal" "simple" home has a lot of charm.
Kentucky, USA here: I grew up in a two-story, 1930s Craftsman bungalow. Now I live in a 1950s ranch-style house that is long and low and shaded with big, mature trees. I love them both❣️
My wife and I live in a Farm Victorian home, on 2 acres, 3 blocks from the city center. It was originally built in 1882, and was added onto multiple times. It has 3920 square feet, not including the 2 car garage and basement workshop under the garage. We got it for $139,000. A beautiful house in a small Kansas town, within an hour of 3 metropolitan areas,and 15 minutes from another.
I have a ranch style house, I bought around 25 years ago, it was built in the mid 1960s...., I love a one story house, I figured it would easier to clean gutters and paint the outside....now after three back surgeries I've had to add a ramp to the front door.....and I am SO glad I got a one story house.
I live in South Carolina and most of these houses you're seeing, if they were here in my state, would cost somewhere between $200,000 and $400,000 depending on if they were in town or further out in the suburbs. Our house is right at 4000 sq ft with 3 bathrooms, 4 bedrooms, we have an inground gunite pool, a pool house with full kitchen and full bathroom, AC, tv, bar and our friends are here every weekend all summer and we have the best friends ever which makes life so wonderful!
Log cabins and Tudor houses are my favorites :-). I live in 20 year old modular home. It was manufactured in pieces, brought to my land and was assembled there. It was pretty neat to watch!
I live in a 1926 Craftsman Bungalow . The 2nd home built in my city. It has an added family room, 2nd story apartment and a pool. My attic has off the kitchen " servant stairs" and I have one of the rare basements in Florida.
Yup, basements in Florida are pretty rare, because the water table is usually pretty high in most areas. Probably easier to do in North Florida, back a ways from the coastline.
@@buddystewart2020 Another problem is the majority of the bedrock in Florida is limestone, which is porous and erodes easily. So if you start punching too many holes you encourage more sinkholes to open up. Which are already an issue in Florida. Even in North Florida.
how often does said basement turn into an indoor pool?
@@chdreturns hasn't happened yet, thank goodness.
My house is over 100 years old. The interior walls are slatboard and plaster. You need a power drill to hang a picture. However, it's so well insulated, I don't have air conditioning. It stays cool if you keep the curtains closed.
My house is also just over 100 yrs old and i too have the slat and plaster interior walls! Insulation is awesome because of that. My house also has a granite exterior, and therefore my exterior walls are just under 2 feet (0.610 meters) thick and that too helps. Especially dealing with Tornadoes in Oklahoma! I was born here in Oklahoma City, but raised in Marin County ( Marin is what is on the other side of the Golden Gate Bridge from San Francisco) and my home there was a bungalow style wooden house. I loved it too, but my house here in OKC, with many original features is superior in charm and beasuty.
Its a must to replace the old windows with modern triple pane glass
I grew up in Los Angeles in an absolutely beautiful 1920's Spanish style home. Thick stucco walls kept it cool in the warm weather, cozy heat in the winter. (Yes, L.A. has Winters, 50's during the days, could get down to freezing at night.) I loved the mix of different architectural styles there, Craftsman bungalows. Tudor. Colonial. Ranch, Contemporary. Federal. French Country.
Those flat looking roofs actually have a bit of an unnoticeable grade built in to it like a sidewalk for proper drainage. Also the houses with walls of solid windows all have blinds for total privacy, sometimes there're even remote controlled. Can't beat the views of the lake and mountains in the daylight though.
My house in Newburyport, MA was built in 1710. There is a fireplace in every room and second fireplace in the kitchen with its own flue for baking. When working on the house we found old bottles, newspapers, a woman's shoe - at least 100 years old. There are wooden shutters that slide into the wall that were said to protect the people from arrows from local Indians.
@12:40 This is the kind of Town House I live in here in Texas, except that the entry door is on the ground floor and I have large balconies on the front (living room) and back (kitchen/dining area). A feature that I like in my home is that I have a "dumbwaiter" in the garage that takes the groceries up into the kitchen or trash bags down to the garage. The dumbwaiter in the kitchen is hidden behind cabinet doors that match the rest of the kitchen cabinets.
we had a couple of those in the house I grew up in here in Iowa. one was the typical kind, and another bigger one went to the brick-lined, creepy horror film coal dump room in the basement. to this day 50 years later, I've been in that room only once, when I was 7. I'm good, no need to go in there ever again LOL.
when we were kids my sister wedged herself into the laundry dumb waiter once. thankfully there was some empty space around it behind the wall it was built into, and at least she hadn't shoved herself in there on an upper floor lol. but it had some weird ratcheting system that the guy who built the house created, and I swear you could have used it as a safe room LOL. to get her out my dad had to pry off trim and 75 year old oak panels (my mother was furious and I still cant name the color her face turned LOL), punch out some of the wall and knock at two of the dumbwaiter box walls with a chisel until he could pull one out. she was grounded for ages, and naturally being a brat child, I was giddy that I had nothing to do with it and wouldnt get in trouble. 😂
Craftsman houses could be ordered from a Sears Catalog. So the price was likely the material costs, not including the builder or land.
Our home was originally a hunting camp on 15 acres. The camp was built almost 100 years ago near a pond. It was added onto and expanded over the years. We’ve been here over 40 years and added our 16x16 foot bedroom to make it an ELL shaped ranch home. We also built a 32x 32 detached 2 car garage with a shed attached behind for parking riding lawnmower, motorcycles for the grandchildren and a 4 wheel drive vehicle to get through the woods to our pond.
I live in southern New Mexico in a Mediterranean style house. The roof is flat looking, but there is a very slight slope to direct the water to the water spouts. Of course, we don’t get much rain, so flat roofs are ubiquitous down here. I grew up in Minnesota where there were many house styles, but they all had pitched roofs due to all the snow and rain. My favorite style is Victorian with wood cabins coming in second, but usually I like a house that fits in the location. There is a craftsman style house in my neighborhood and it doesn’t fit at all, but craftsman style in MN is great.
Live in an old colonial style house that was classified as a mansion when it was built in 1930’s if i’m not mistaking. A local oil tycoon had it built. 4 story, 5 bed & 4.5 bath on a 4 acre land intown. It’s a fixer upper, yet a beaut
If you're curious, my little city was founded in the 1920s after a trip to Stratford-upon-Avon. The founders came back to the Atlanta area and made the US's first "planned community." The original 1920 houses were mostly Tudor, some Arts & Crafts. Even the Community Center, City Hall, and Pool/Tennis Club are Tudor. The next wave of houses were built in the 1950s after WWII, so there are many mid-century modern homes built in that time. Here's a quick drive through the neighborhood so you can see the different styles: th-cam.com/video/MVAJJAoiblc/w-d-xo.html
Cabin log style is my favorite - If you go to Minnesota or Wisconson you will see tons of small to large Cabins around many of the lakes in the rural those states area, lake life is huge in those two states and people who own cabins will often spend the Majority of their summers at the lake Fishing, Swiming, Water Sking, Wake boarding, and all manner of other water realated activities, fish fry's are also quite popular where people come together and bread up their catch fry it, this normaly comes along side plenty of side dishes and plenty of beer.
13:48 - Wait is that the Braithwaite Manor?
I grew up and now live on the Family farm.. 2 story 4 bed room house that was built in 1920.. Sits on 30 acres of land in Kentucky.. I say farm cause across the street from the house is an addition 120 Acres..
I grew up in New Orleans on the street that divided the French Quarters from an area called Treme. Treme is historic because it was the first land in America that was willed/given to slaves from their slave owners. Jazz was also created there. My house was 4 blocks from Bourbon street and my neighborhood was quite colorful...the buildings and the people living in them. I woke up and went to bed hearing music and seeing art created. There was also a Victorian home on my corner that turned out to be a brothel for Trans men (during my childhood in the 80's). My house was French inspired (originally a duplex, but made it one home by knocking down one wall). It had huge windows, about 6 ft long, hardwood floors, 5 bedrooms, 4 fire places, 2 kitchens, 3 bathrooms and a sun room. It was considered a "shotgun" home, because when you open the front door you can shoot all the way to the back the house without hitting any walls lol. The house was also haunted but oddly enough the ghost was friendly lol. No cap. The neighborhood itself was lined with French and Spanish Colonial homes. The street I lived on was also the chosen route for "Second Lines". Which is when someone of prominence dies and they have a jazz band "Dancing them to Heaven". It starts off sad at the cemetery and then it becomes joyous and celebratory as everyone leaves, walking along a route that twists and turns through chosen French Quarter/Treme streets. As this march proceeds, the jazz band is going full throttle celebrating. Then people from everywhere come and join the jazz band with their own instruments and it becomes a huge street party/jazz parade. It's a 100 + year tradition. Ya gotta visit there one day if you come here. And the food is INSANELY GOOD!!! Love ur channel bruh!
The 1,500 dollar house was actually a kit you could buy. You still needed to have land to put it in, still had to pass code, ect. You can still buy kit houses like that but definitely not as cheap.
That 1500 house is probably a Sears Mail Order House. You would have the parts shipped to your location (IIRC, Sears would pay for railcar transport but if you weren't on the side of the tracks you had to handle the rest on your own) and then you would assemble it on site. That house would be around 51k today not including assembly, additional transport, the land, or any legal fees. Which may sound good to the more urbanite americans, but if you live in the country that's still not particularly cheap. You can get an okay trailer home for around 58-70k in the area I live which also includes the plot of land and is assembled rather than having to put it together yourself. And if you do have a plot of land you want to put a house on its not gonna be much cheaper to get a manufactured home just driven there.
you sound like you'd know a lot about trailer homes
@@Marcel_Audubon You sound like an urbanite paying twice what I do in rent for an apartment a third the size of my trailer home, but nobody's perfect.
@@KahavaveCAPIPI I own my entire building, but nice try. Why not go all the way and live in a cave? then you would really own those "urbanites"
@@Marcel_Audubon Ah my mistake, I thought you were making fun of me for living in the country! Now I realize that you just like making fun of poor people who try to learn finances and local housing prices to help escape generational poverty! That's much better.
@@KahavaveCAPIPI that's sure a self-satisfied mouthful, but nope, I'm just making fun of you because I heard it's fun to do (and they were sure right!)
My dream house is a Craftsman. 2800 sq ft, 3 bed 3 bath (two suites and a guestroom) huge kitchen with a built-in dinette, office and full basement.
The price on the Craftsman pictured is likely from an old Sears catalogue, as from roughly 1890 to the late 1940s Sears would sell "kit homes" which were all components necessary to build the pictured house, with blueprints, lumber pre-cut to correct lengths, and all finishing elements, such as baseboards. Decorative elements like the filigree woodwork on archways in Victorian houses would be available separately.
My favorites are Mediterranean, craftsman, and log homes. I live in a chalet style wood home in the mountains in a private community (property owners association). We pay a POA fee of 425$ a year for trash and snow removal, road upkeep and security guards. We don’t pay for water or sewer because we have wells and our own septic systems which cost minimal upkeep. Our community has a private lake with beach, boat launches, basketball, volleyball, & pickleball courts. Picnic areas, community pool. We have a restaurant, bar and outdoor snack bar with a deck that has free bands in the summer. All amenities included except of course we pay for food and drinks. It was established as a summer community in the 1970s however many live here because it’s quiet and away from the city or they retired to their summer home.
My favorite home was a 100 year old Victorian with windows all over and wood molding everywhere. We moved to the Midwest with a huge kitchen. Very large attached garage, high ceilings, 3 large bathrooms, 4 large bedrooms and a wraparound balcony on the second floor with sliding door to go out to the balcony plus a staircase to go up to the balcony on the other side of the house. It’s in a very wooded subdivision…lots of trees. We have a large finished basement that is carpeted and my husband has his office there plus a very large toy train layout. The furnace and water heater are in a separate room closed off from the finished part. Homes in the Midwest cost a lot less than in NY or California and I prefer having a much nicer, affordable home in the Midwest.
I live in a ranch style house. It was built in 1975 and is still like new. The best part is that even though I'm in the suburbs, my back yard borders a large nature preserve. So, I often see deer, coyotes, bobcats and many other kinds of animals.
Honestly a farmhouse or a log cabin is really my dream home, though I suppose realistically my style is something rustic. It's more or less the kind of houses or camps I've grown up around.
Not sure how feasible it would be as content for you, but I feel like a video where you poke around on realtor sites (like zillow or something) in different states would be a fun kind of vid to watch. Would also get you an even better idea of the average houses here both inside and out! Though I feel like the prices of some of them may just scare you 🤣
Our home is a Cape Cod built in 1960 - 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, full finished basement, just under 3300 sq. ft and sits on half an acre in a quiet neighborhood. The neighbors on each side of us have lived here since the 70s. It still needs a lot of work done, but it’s the home we bought to raise our 3 young kids in ❤️
The plantation house you were saying "no,no,no" to at 13:32 is Longwood Plantation(also known as Nutt's Folly) in Natchez,Mississippi. It was being built right at the beginning of the Civil War. It is huge and octagonal and they only completed the bottom floor,which they lived, because well the civil war. It is now on a historic register and can be toured. Even incomplete it is pretty cool-did the tour on a random road trip. Oh and it's exterior was featured in an episode of True Blood lol.
We bought a smaller one story 960 sq ft house on 751,725 sq ft lot in 1980. There's a full basement. I am not found of the exterior (it's an odd green with white trim) but it is paid for and my frugal husband didn't want to spend $ to change it. Now that we are retired, he has mentioned changing it and I said nope, if I have had to live with it all this time, then so will he. We also had a 2 1/2 car garage built maybe 20 yrs. ago. There is also a very sturdy 10 x 10 ft shed my husband built.
My nephew bought a "kit" log house about 20 years ago. It is a little smaller than the one you liked so much. His friends and family helped him to put it together. Love that look.
On the houses with huge windows and you were asking what about privacy? Normally those types of windows either have blinds built-in to the middle of the window. Or blinds that retract down. Usually both can be activated electronically or manually.
And face the back of a private lot usually
I finally bought my dream house in 2020 - a Lannon stone 2 story built in 1935 on a third of an acre. It’s French style but with simpler lines. There’s a combination of carpet and wood floors and about 2,100 sq ft but it could be 3,100 if I finished the basement. The garage is 3 car detached. What really sold me on it was the 2 natural fireplaces and built in library for all my books, which is my sanctuary. I wish I had this house years ago but it took a lot of hard work (like most people) and years of school to get it.
2:15..... from the 1920s to the 1960s, you could buy an actual home from either Craftsman, or Sears catalogs. Either one, you can still see those typrs of homes.
By the way, Sears was like a gardening store, an automotive store, and quite a bit more. In the Sears catalog, you can even buy a car called a "Henry J".
Craftsman made, and still makes tools. They also make mowers, but those are known to be pretty low quality.
I grew up in a gorgeous large Greek Revival style home with Doric columns all the way across the front porch, so I am quite partial to them. Where I live now, the city rewrote the building codes some years ago when it was expanding to the west. Now the homes in the older/original part of the city are of various architectural styles but everything in the western 2/3 of the city (where I live) is Mediterranean/Tuscan style with tile roofs to comply with the rewritten building codes and I have to say it looks beautiful.
I'm a single woman in the USA in Florida. Bought my home 2 years ago. Was built in 1952 but has many updates...1611 sq. Feet 3 bedroom,2 1/2 baths. I love it. Most of the things you showed my home includes..2 car garage,ample parking for cars,boats and toys. Massive front lawn and a pool and fire pit in the back with room for dogs to run around as well. I paid 295,000 and I'm about 3 miles drive from the beach and a 3 minute walk from the intercoastal waterway where you can fish or boat. This video made me appreciate my home more than I already did.
The first home I bought was a half duplex built in 1935. The second was a Victorian style single family home built in 1895. The one we're in now was one we built (dream house) that is in the Cape Cod/Craftsman style, it pulls some elements from both styles. The pic of the house at 9:39 is the kind of styling in our new house and rough look.
We have a 1925 Craftsman in northeast Ohio. 3 stories. 3 beds, 3 baths, enclosed porch, basement rec room, 14 rooms & 13 closets, with a 2 car detached garage. It's never been a rental, so the woodwork and the chandeliers are still original. People call it creepy, but we love it. The doorbell at 2 a.m. when no one's there just gives it character.
The Amityville Horror home is Dutch Colonial. They are the ones with the 'barn-style' roof. My husband and I lived in a full-log home on 34 acres for 20 years. People often told us how much they loved our house - it was never my cup of tea. Full-log has brown, bumpy walls both inside and out. The log home requires about twice the amount of upkeep as a regular stick-built home. That means painting or staining and checking for log-rot about every other year. Log homes have an inherent feature called 'checking' where cracks naturally occur in the logs over time. Bugs, spiders, hair, cobwebs, and bats all love to hide in these cracks. In the winter once a roaring fire has warmed the interior all those lovely little bugs and spiders think it's a new season and come out of hiding. Additionally, you must be careful about hanging things on the wall. A log wall will never be perfectly even top-to-bottom. So, there is a chance of art, photos, etc. tilting at an angle because the log below protrudes further into space than the one where you've driven the nail. Also, even if you love brown (I DID love brown) you might become starved for color about 6 months on. I ended up painting my bathroom red just because I couldn't stand one more brown surface. The more you know, folks. Cheers!
The Amityville Horror houe is pretty spot on at 3:37. ALL THE WAY DOWN TO THE WINDOWS 😂😂😂
Oversize kitchen sinks being there is no separation in the middle and the sink is usually 30 to 36 inches wide and it’s usually very deep. That’s what most farmhouse is here they call it a skirt sink or oversize see.
I live in North Central Florida on 6 acres of land on a dirt road with a fishing pond and my home was built-in 2002 with 3100 square feet. It has 3 bedrooms and 2 1/2 bathrooms. Here in this part of Florida it is a typical middle class home.
We rent a house outside of Charlotte here in North Carolina. It a little “mill” house. 3 bed 2 bath… mostly brick with a little vinyl siding on the Sid where they added a den and took away the garage. It was built in 1960! They renovated it shortly we moved in last year. Mostly quiet road with friendly neighbors on about 1 acre of land with a fenced in backyard.
I live in a modern(built in 2007) 1750 sq ft heated area, w 2 car attached garage, one story home on a concrete slab. 2 small covered porches, mostly brick veneer exterior. Its basically an open floor plan 3 bedroom 2 bath ranch on the interior but with a steep roof & 9' ceilings. It sits on a half acre lot. They called it cottage style on the plans, but to me its pretty big for a cottage. It was the 1st home to be built in the subdivision by the developer as a "spec" home. We pretty much had it to ourselves until 6-7 yrs ago when most of the lots began to be sold and built on. Now theres only 2-3 lots left out of the 20 or so in the subdivision..The immediate area is still pretty rural and made up of small family owned 20-40 acre parcels. Its pretty much a typical new suburban home in the south these days. Its sits on a small 20 ac farm that was made into a subdivision in the mid 2000s.
We live in a small log chalet. 3 bedrooms, one downstairs and 2 upstairs. We have a deck on the front and the back and a balcony off the upstairs bedroom. Our garage is detached. Our lot size is 1/4 acre. Small house in a subdivision in the foothills of the mountains. I didn't have a dryer for several years. I do now. We have a wood stove for heat, so clothes dry fast in the winter, we hung them everywhere. Summer, outside drying. We have a small dishwasher, but not all do. I grew up in a Victorian farmhouse, 4 bedrooms and 10' ceilings. We raised beef cattle, had a cow, chickens, etc. good life.
I’m a big fan of Cape Cod homes but I also love farm house style because I love front porches. My own house which is almost seventeen years old, could be best be described as a hybrid of a farmhouse/craftsman, common in western Washington. It has a steep pitched roof to allow all our rain to efficiently run into the gutters and downspouts, also we occasionally get snow. It has a fairly open floor plan.
I currently live in a ranch style home with a rear facing daylight basement. Meaning, the home is on the edge of an incline, so the front of the home the ground level is the upper floor, and in the back of the house, the ground level is the basement. We live on acreage in the woods in Southwestern Washington State, and the house is on a riverbank. My favorite home I have ever lived in was a victorian.. don’t sleep on them.. they are massive inside and have crazy ornate woodwork and ornaments. My second favorite was a log home in Montana. I have never lived in a Mediterranean style home, but they are by far my favorite on this list. I would own one in a second and have absolutely loved every one I have ever been in.
I live in a 100 year old one story colonial home with the big white pillars. It’s about 2000 sq feet with tall ceilings and a big fenced in yard. The high ceilings are to help keep the house cooler (heat rises), no AC when it was built in 1923. I am from Arkansas (🙋♀️ Hey ya’ll!) so we get a lot of heat (over 100 degrees F) and snow and ice every winter. We also have tornadoes, hail and heavy rain. This house has stood the test of time.
(Mainly by a ridiculous number of expensive upkeeps that are never ending. 😬
For the style shown at 2:10 the house itself did not cost $1,537 - that is what the plans cost. Where I live, the homes are Mediterranean style as shown from 8:23 to 8:57. The city I live in re-wrote their building codesd whenthe city expanded to the west requiring all buildings, whether residences or commercial buildings, to be Mediterranean style with tile roofs. For that reason, none of our "big box" stores like Walmart, Target and Home Depot are built using their regular corporate building plans. All of ours have tile roofs, towers, carriage lights, etc. Even fast food places such as McDonald's adhere to the Mediterranean style instead of their usual corporate plans. For that reason, our city looks cohesive and very beautiful.
I grew up in a two story wood house with stucco on the interior walls. It was one of the oldest houses in town. I have fond memories of the screened porch with a porch swing. It survived hurricanes. I also lived in a stucco house with a bit of Spanish style. It had a small paved patio behind a wall. When I was married my husband and I built a very modern open plan home. Then I had a Victorian farmhouse with a partial wrap around porch. My favorite home was a modern mountain cabin. It was cedar siding on the outside, hickory floors and knotty pine on the dining room, living room and hallway walls. If I was building again that's what I would choose, unless I moved to the southwest, then I would have adobe style. I live in an uninspiring ranch style now. It has brick facade on the bottom half. I'm only here because I'm getting old and it's convenient to everything. Its other advantage is the dog door out into a big yard and lots of walking paths.
I grew up in many different types of homes from the 60s and on in Northern California and Nevada. One of my favorites was a split level in a great neighborhood in the 60s then in the early 70s we built our own 2-story on my grandparents 14 acre apple orchard which I loved, have grown up and lived in Las Vegas for several years living in wood and concrete homes but out of all styles of homes for me my favorite wood be a log cabin (somewhere in the Northwest area) with the Redwood trees and giant Sequoias I grew up with and because of the natural logs used, vaulting ceilings, huge fireplaces giving off the warm, cozy and inviting feel along with blending in with nature's beauty.
We live in a pretty standard 2 story house with a wraparound porch and a basement.
We built it nearly 25 years ago, on land we had already purchased.
My first owned house in 1975 was a 1895 Victorian, a common style in Texas towns of that time. It was 2200 sq ft (244 sq yds). For the past 15 years, we've had a 1026 farm house that had been entirely unimproved before we bought it on four acres with large barn, garage, well house and smoke house that we turned into a guesthouse. We made huge improvements. I like this one the better of the two, but a lot of that is because it's away from town, with only two neighbors well separated.
Our ranch was built in 1986. It has a unique beigish-pink and white brick. Super beautiful, very unique, Italian influence - which we are not but, most of our small neighborhood is. The brick is what sold the house.
In 2005, we added 1050 sq ft to the original 1650 sq ft. We had been talking about it for a couple years. One day, the builder we had used for a bathroom update calls us. He wants me to go outside and take pictures of my brick. I sent them. I’m thinking, maybe he told a buddy about our weird brick, that’s all. He shows up a couple days later with three bricks. They’re my bricks. Up close, the exact brick, from 1,400 miles away.
So, that was the push we needed and we went ahead with the addition! Between the new bricks and those salvaged from the existing house we have a pile of exactly 14 bricks leftover, about half of them broken. That’s close! We were out there every night for a week, counting, estimating, not believing he had enough. Of course, the brick man had it all mathed out.
They did beautiful work. If our builder hadn’t found those pallets of bricks, we probably would’ve moved instead. Our family of Mom, Dad, two kids, and Gramma are grateful.
I live in a craftsman style home. It was built in 1940 and looked like it was a kit home. The walls are solid 2 by 12 boards. I did expand the bath when I bought the house. I love the front porch on the house.The exterior of the house has brick that was added after the original house was built. The brick is sitting on it's own foundation.
When my mom was 18 she bought a 1965 Mustang loaded with every options for $980.00 & in 1967 she bought a 3 bedroom ranch style house with 2 car garage & a big yard for $1,399.00.
I grew up in a house that was build in 1910. we had found old newspapers stuffed in the floor boards upstairs when renovating. 2 story 3 bed 2 bath, 12 ft ceilings, plaster walls, had a shitty crumbling basement with a coal chute, knob and tube wiring in some areas, and an absolute laundry list of problems. GLad to be rid of that nightmare lol
I now live in a 4 bed 2 bath, but a 1 story ranch style that was built about 25 years ago now. Basement is half finished. No big ceilings, but a much friendlier layout and slightly out of town (the important part!)
My mom’s house looks like the first style. I think it was called ranch style house. It’s pretty big, but growing up I thought it was small compared to the other kids’ houses from my school. Looking back now, I would have to say it’s a fairly large house with a huge backyard. My mom turned the backyard into a fairy garden with fairy statues amongst the flora. We have room for a pool, but she doesn’t like swimming, so she went for a cottage garden theme with stone paths. I think it was the right choice. There are too many basic pools in American homes.
We live in a 1940s concrete block and Field stone constructed Cape Cod. It’s 260 m², but that was after the two additions put on since it’s original construction date and before we bought it. It’s a small three-quarter acre lot of land surrounded by woods with a lake in the middle.
Mid-century ranch style about 3200 sq. ft of living space. We live in the high desert of New Mexico. Love your vids Adam.
We love in A wood cabin that originally was 20'x20'. We have enlarged it and now it's about 1200 '. Th interior is half log on the walls. 2 bedroom, 2 full bath. We're in the mountains and heat with wood
I live in a stick built 2 story home with a large kitchen, eat-in dinette, formal dining room, 3 Family Rooms, 4 bedrooms, 3.5 bathrooms and laundry room. I have a 3 and half stall garage and sits on a 0.5 acre lot in Iowa. In addition, I have an in-ground pool and pool house/shed to store chemicals, etc. The house has roughly 3400 square feet of finished space. It is a bit large for my wife and I, now that our 2 kids are gone and have families of their own. The original home footprint cost $161,000 in 1991 and now would sell for about $500,000....
We built a 2600 sq ft brick craftsman in Texas. One story, no steps since we want to retire here and will most likely be using canes heavily. Three bedrooms, 2 1/2 baths, with a great room and open floorplan. Love love love this home.
If I could, I'd live in either a Mid-Century Modern, or a really nice lodge feel log cabin. A really nice Craftsman would be cool too. My least favorite are Victorian and Colonial. But, I don't have the money to live in any of those, which is why I don't live in any of those. lol.
I purchased a craftsman home from 1924 and I love the style. The low roofs, large front porch with beams. It has built in window seats, built in drawers under the stairs, pillars and a large porch along with the original wood shingles outside.
In our county we have alot of single story homes. Basements are rare. Basements would be below the water table here.
I live in California where ranch homes are popular. My home is 1600sf ranch house with 3 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms that is about 30 years old. Have a two-car attached garage and a combination forced air furnace and air conditioner system. A one-story home is future proofed as there are no stairs to be difficult to climb as one gets older. No brick houses here except for some non-structural facing decorative things due to our earthquakes.
We have a split level ranch...living spaces on the lower floor andn6 steps up to the 3 bedrooms. Built in 1960, it's 2056 square feet, 2.5 baths and a double sided stone fireplace in the living room and den. We live in a rural part of NY, 5 acres on the top of a mountain, surrounded by woods. We love where we live!
My home looks like the brick home that’s low to the ground. Its 5,500 square inches, we had it built a little over 25 years ago. It’s not identical in style, but we made some major upgrades to it. Our basement is now a full functional apartment with a wine cellar, laundry room, large kitchen with granite countertops and floors, and full bathroom. My daughter decided to live at home while going to college so she is going to live down there. 😊
I’m still young so I have a long way to go before I can afford it, but I definitely enjoy the bigger two story craftsman style homes with a finished basement. My favorite theme with those types of homes are the big open living room with a raised ceiling, two rows of big windows, and the second story walkway that has an open loft area with railings that allows you to look down into it.
The log cabins are definitely my favorite. My brother lives in a modest size log cabin on 9 acres of land on an island in Maine. Great video! Thank you!
About the flat roof homes...
There is a slight pitch to the roof for water runoff, but there are issues with snow and snow melt.
You see this style mostly in the drier areas; Southern California, Nevada, Arizona, Southern Colorado, New Mexico, and West Texas.
For a better idea of the Typical American house, check out Zillow to see the homes for sale.
We had a rambler built 13 years ago in rural Va. $ 166,000 at the time for 2,000 sq. ft. House prices have raised so much over the past few years. We're on several acres so we are happy!
My house is a farm house style with 3 dormers along the second floor, and a wrap around porch on the edge of an overlook of pastureland. Sunsets are gorgeous!❤ 2:57
University of Arizona has an 8-page document about house-types in Tucson. I live in one of the historic Barrios, and those are Pueblo influenced, Spanish colonial and Adobe houses. Very unique, also protected architecture.
I have a small 1927 bungalow. Two bedrooms, one bath, dining room, living room, sun room, hardwood floors, fireplace. Basically open inside with the dining room, living room and sunroom divided by wide arches. Five inch wood baseboards and picture frame moulding. It’s old but I love it.
I’ve grown up in Alabama and livid a modest middle class life. My mom actually designed the 2 homes we lived in. One was a combination of a Tudor and ranch style. The other one that I currently live in now is a cross between French country and Victorian style. I lived in the UK for several years and even the largest home I went to was 1/2 or more less in size than any of homes I had in the USA the past 49 years. When I was married we lived in garden home and then we built a colonial house
Modern-style homes being named after the Modernist Movement - Ie the cultural movement. Specifically Modernist Architecture is usually pinpointed to between 1920-1980 or so.