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This is a bit odd of a request, but ya should check out and learn about 9/11
What is "purr"?
Amityville is @3:37
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.
It varies by elevation also in mountainous regions...
And rains.
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 .....
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.
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
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.
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.
@@philipem1000 And the drain pipes might run through an interior wall instead of outside gutters & downspouts like a gabled house. You see a few flat roof homes in snowy/rainy areas but they're problematic for leaks as they get older!
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.
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
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
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 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.
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.
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)
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.
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 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.
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...
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
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
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.
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!)
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.
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
@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. 😂
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.
That’s cool, do you want a cookie?
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.
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❣️
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.
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!
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 live in Ohio and I bought my house in 2016. I wasn't even thinking about buying a house, but it was so absurdly cheap that I thought it was a joke. Anyway, my house is Victorian style and it was built in 1920. I loved it because it had the look and feel of a 1920's home. But, it is very big, so while it is good for this point in my life, I will definitely want a smaller home when I get older, so that I don't have so much property to maintain. Also, this video didn't mention tiny homes. Tiny homes come in all different shapes and styles. Tiny homes are growing in popularity in the US because they are much more affordable than traditional houses.
Ohio is amazing for houses. The housing market around here in ohio was booming back in 2016-2018 or so. Until you know... but still I love ohio and the low costs of living
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.
I live in a Farm house with wrap around porches & garage is across a breezeway.
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!
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.
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.
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!)
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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 Victorian style house built in 1885.I favorite part of the house is the full front porch. My neighbors and I often spend warm evenings sitting on it, watching the neighborhood kids play or ride their bikes.
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.
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. 😬
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.
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 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.
The story on my home, the town I live was established in 1876. In 1928, the town was expanded and my house was put on the census for the first time. Thus, my deed says it was built in 1928, however, I believe my home to be possibly about 20 years (or more) older. I have found that my house was added onto several times. The original house plan was a simple square, much like frontier homes were started. Then they built up, adding a 2nd floor onto that square. Then it was expanded to the West by 1 square, and possibly with the 2nd floor during that build. Lastly, the screened in porch to the East was boxed in while adding the 2nd floor. In the old days, as the family grew, the house would be added onto based on needs. You can even see where the original driveway to my old home takes you straight into my neighbors home, essentially telling me that this home once owned all the surrounding land, as all the houses near mine were built in the 1940s-1950s. When I begin to remodel my home, I will be sure to look at all the wood beams I replace to see if I can find a recorded date. I may even make some videos of the entire process, to include before and after.
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.
My family's house was built in the 70's, it is made of brick near the base then above that is standard wood, fiberglass and drywall walls, metal siding, has 3 floors (an upper level, a middle level (where all entrys and exits are) and a furnished basement) and is in the subberbs, looks pretty much like a lot of the other houses in my neighborhood but it has a pretty big backyard (which unfortunately has a decently steep hill going down it into a small woods, it is a pain to mow but at least the backyard is fully fenced in so we can let our dog run around without worry there) with a wooden deck that has a roof over the half closest to the house.
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 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 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.
The house I grew up in was a brick rancher built in 1950. A modest three bedroom one bath home with a full basement and no garage. My current home was built in 2008 and is a two story, four bedroom, 2 1/2 bath with a full basement and attached two car garage. Between those to homes I lived in a two story townhouse. My favorite styles are the Tudor, Craftsman, and log cabin.
The house at 9:25 is literally in Switzerland. I remember seeing it in a show on Netflix where a British architect and some British actress would tour fancy homes around the world.
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.
I live in a brick ranch that was built in either the late fifties or early sixties. I love the dutch colonial revival, which is what the house in Amityville, NY is.
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.
The Amityville Horror houe is pretty spot on at 3:37. ALL THE WAY DOWN TO THE WINDOWS 😂😂😂
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.
Log Cabin Style is my favorite
I live in a ranch-style house built in the 1950s. It was part of a tract house development that had only a few variations on the interiors. One time I went to a classmate’s house several blocks away and it had the exact same layout as my house. It was eerie!
My family and I live in a ranch style house that was built in the 60's. It was built by the person who built all the homes in this area when it was being converted from farmland, so he took great care with the building of this one since it was going to be his. Which means it has a lot of added things for durability and safety that others might not have. Plus ours is the only one in our neighborhood that has a basement because he insisted on having one.
The style of the home you loved comes in all sizes, that was on the larger side but I've seen a similar house in a small 2 bedroom cabin style home. We have a southern style home with the pillars and wide porch. While there used to be doors to the outside on the top floor the upstairs porch was inclosed in the 70's and is now part of the indoors. It's too big for me and my husband now that our five children are all raising their own families, and if the opportunity to move to something smaller comes up we will take it. Just remember houses need upkeep and bigger houses need bigger upkeep.
Ranch style. I like everything on one level. Handy when you're older too.
I live in a colonial/British style brick semi-attached brown brick home built sometime around 1917... at least that is what whoever plastered our walls in horse hair plaster wrote under his signature. In retrospect it's pretty funny how puzzled we were at why we couldn't get the old wallpaper off no matter what method we tried. We were actually very lucky to manage to separate a section cleanly enough to find the signature, I kind of wish we had cut it out and kept it now.
Those flat roofed houses are built mostly where there is little rain (2-4 inches a year). They are usually slightly pitched to drain to one side.
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 Craftsman bungalow that my parents expanded out and added another floor to when I was about 10. absolutely my favorite style and always will be. we had some pieces of Stickley/mission-looking furniture commissioned in Chicago by my grandparents, but it was mostly a hodgepodge of Lloyd Wright, art nouveau and art deco with mid-century coloring and knickknacks lol. my mother hated things to match too much lol. now I live in a completely bland apartment and I want my house back lol
The first home I purchased as an adult was a Sears kit home from the 1920’s. It probably cost less than $1500 back then. They would drop it all off at your lot and you would put it together like a giant Lego set.
My current home was built all the way back in 2005. I am the second owner. My house has some interesting features including a rock wall and rope bridge in my son’s room.
I'm from Philadelphia. I live in an upper middle-class suburb right outside the city (like 10 minutes) in a Colonial-style home. It's very old by American standards built sometime in the early 1800s. It's also small in square footage but again because of the age and location would sell on the market right now for at least 350K +. It's fun how many options we have in the states!
I live in an old city (relatively speaking settled in 1626) and my home was my Grandparents house. It's dated to 1890 and is a single family home three stories with a full basement. It's about 2500 square feet and has a 2.5 car detattched garage. Although my yard is quite small. I do have a very narrow driveway that only holds one small Geo Tracker.
That $1537 house was the cost of a self-build kit, from the 1920's The home came in pieces, and you (and a crew) would put it together. Early prefabrication concept.
Average home prices in the mid-1970's was around $35,000, but that same home today would sell for around $228,590 on today's market.
I live in an apartment, however, I love Victorian and Cozy Cottage styles. My favorites are built 1800s-1900s. I do also love Cabin-style as well. I think it depends on the design.
In our apartment complex we have a gym, a club house, a swimming pool and a laundry area on the grounds. Our lawn and snowfall is handled my management.
In our county we have alot of single story homes. Basements are rare. Basements would be below the water table here.
My dad and I live in a small white house with 2 bedrooms and 1 bath, full unfinished basement and a one car garage. Its nothing fancy, and its really small, but its cozy. Btw, where I live in Indiana is in an area that's almost all rural farmland. Maybe 15% of the farmhouses look like the one in this video. Most farmhouses here are regular two story houses with porches, or nice ranch style homes.
I currently live in an apartment in a former single-family house in Providence, Rhode Island. It was built of wood in 1837 in the Greek Revival style. This is an historic part of Providence. Most of the houses on my block are about 100 years older.
I grew up in a Greek Revival house in Manhattan, built in 1831. It was built in brick, not wood, and is unusual in that it is free-standing, not attached like most houses in the neighborhood. This is probably why I LOVE Greek Revival houses.
Log home is our favorite as well, large courtyard, huge stone fireplace etc. We live in a 1942 bungalow style house, 4 bedrooms, 1 bath 1800 sq feet.
My mom's family home was a log cabin built in 1780 by my grandpa 8 generations ago on a land grant in Kentucky he was given by Continental Congress for his service in the Revolutionary War . That house stayed in the family until the 1950's when the government's TVA project claimed it via the eminent domain law when they built a dam on the river and created a lake which put the house and the whole farm at the bottom of that lake . We were the only owners EVER of that farm . My grandpa's house in Alabama was a real old plantation house at the end of about a 1/4 mile long driveway lined on both sides by 100 plus year old live oaks . It was an actual plantation of about 7,000 acres . My house is Mediterranean style , which is rare in New York, but it fits in here because it is on the beach on a small island about 35 miles from Manhattan . It was built in 1935 ,we have owned it since 1971 .
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!
Not sure why he says that ranch homes have smaller yards. That isn’t the case around here. Heck, we live on 33 acres and live in a ranch.
The craftsman originally cost $1500. You could also buy a kit out of Sears’ catalogs.
I grew up in a classic farmhouse from the mid 1800s, loved that house and I prefer it over all the others in your video. Now I live in a ranch style duplex, it is a really simple cozy design.
I grew up in a Chicago suburb that had quite a few Sears kit homes. They arrived by train and then were put up in sections. These kit homes from the early 1900’s are prized these days.
In Dallas, we have a lot of ranch style brick, usually 4 bedrooms with 3 living areas. My parents are still in our home built in 1966.
My favorite kinds are the log homes. Second are the stone homes. Designed my log home we are getting ready to build. It's a 3 bedroom 2.5 bath house with an in-law suite for when family wants to stay for however long they want...
I live in a Ranch House built in 1981. It's modestly sized for Texas being 2500 sq ft with an average 14,000 sq ft yard. Our garage is a nice size though, comfortably fitting 2 large trucks inside.
Different areas of the country you'll find many different types of homes. Home styles are all dependent on what they like and can afford. Such as had 1/4 of a acre had a very nice 1800 square foot manufactured home on it. Large deck in the back and extremely well insulated built with 2 by 6 lumber. It was built better than many frame homes. Had a over sized garage for 2 cars and room to work at benches
we live in a Cape Cod style home that was built in the 1800s, it was my husbands family home that he grew up in and we bought it from his parents who moved into his mom's family home which is smaller since they are retired and they did not need a large house anymore. We live her with our 2 sons.. they have the whole upstairs which as a large living area (where they do gaming) and their bedrooms and a bathroom.
I live in a 1958 ranch. With no city water or sewer. Detached garage all stick built. White vinyl siding and black shingles. Simple but easy to work on for the most part.
Those Cape Cod style homes in the northeast the new england area many are still the same style as colonial times . There are some areas in Massachusetts that the homes are as old as our country.
Mid-century ranch style about 3200 sq. ft of living space. We live in the high desert of New Mexico. Love your vids Adam.
That log cabin you want to walk around Barefoot in costs well over a $Million maybe 3-5Million.
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.