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Why Are New LA Houses so Boring/Stale?
Posted on 3/11/14 at 6:56 am
Posted on 3/11/14 at 6:56 am
My brother and his wife are looking to build a new house and they showed me around some of the neighborhoods they're looking at this past weekend while I was in town.
Going from neighborhood to neighborhood I couldn't help wonder why in the world every damn person had to build the same damn house. I get it, the Hays Town houses are nice, but could someone build a non-white stucco red brick house?!?!
Has no one heard of a bungalow or a craftsman style home? Is this style just cheaper to build here from a material or construction standpoint or is this just brainless trash gonna trash sheep mentality?
Going from neighborhood to neighborhood I couldn't help wonder why in the world every damn person had to build the same damn house. I get it, the Hays Town houses are nice, but could someone build a non-white stucco red brick house?!?!
Has no one heard of a bungalow or a craftsman style home? Is this style just cheaper to build here from a material or construction standpoint or is this just brainless trash gonna trash sheep mentality?
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Posted on 3/11/14 at 6:57 am to FootballNostradamus
lack of taste among the greater home-buying population
Posted on 3/11/14 at 6:58 am to FootballNostradamus
cookie cutter southern suburbs gonna cookie cutter southern suburb
Posted on 3/11/14 at 6:58 am to FootballNostradamus
They also have to be no more than 4 feet apart from neighbors
Posted on 3/11/14 at 7:02 am to FootballNostradamus
Track building.
Much easier/cheaper/faster for builders to just slap up the same house pattern or similar house pattern again and again.
As long as people are buying the houses that track builders are building they will continue to build them like that.
That doesn't answer the question as to why people buy them but it does answer your question on why people build them.
Much easier/cheaper/faster for builders to just slap up the same house pattern or similar house pattern again and again.
As long as people are buying the houses that track builders are building they will continue to build them like that.
That doesn't answer the question as to why people buy them but it does answer your question on why people build them.
This post was edited on 3/11/14 at 7:06 am
Posted on 3/11/14 at 7:04 am to FootballNostradamus
I'm with ya. It lacks character, or anything special or unique.
Posted on 3/11/14 at 7:05 am to FootballNostradamus
A lot of newer neighborhoods give restrictions. Sister in law just built in a nice neighborhood around St amant and they didn't let them do a few things and there were some things they had to do.. For instance they were required to have a wall of vinal siding when they wanted all brick. Had a list of front door archways to choose from.
It sucks but it prevents some no taste cheap arse from building an obscure house in your neighborhood.
It sucks but it prevents some no taste cheap arse from building an obscure house in your neighborhood.
This post was edited on 3/11/14 at 7:06 am
Posted on 3/11/14 at 7:06 am to FootballNostradamus
Most of the new sprawls in the BR area are cheap cookie cutter track homes. Usually with no trees and bare yards. Maybe a front facing garage.
Posted on 3/11/14 at 7:06 am to FootballNostradamus
Its the same way in Houston. There are 3 builders in our section and each builder has 4-5 floorplans. When I drive down my street, I see our floorplan about every 10th house. They change the elevation a little bit for each house so at least the houses arent identical.
Posted on 3/11/14 at 7:08 am to dafuqusay
Also, if you want to get anything with character and a decent size yard not built on top of your neighbor, youre going to start at around $400K.
Posted on 3/11/14 at 7:09 am to FootballNostradamus
Sounds like a suburb problem, not a Louisiana problem
Posted on 3/11/14 at 7:09 am to dafuqusay
it's the same way almost everywhere
the only time you see truly unique brand new homes here are tear downs close to the city
the only time you see truly unique brand new homes here are tear downs close to the city
Posted on 3/11/14 at 7:10 am to RBWilliams8
quote:
A lot of newer neighborhoods give restrictions. Sister in law just built in a nice neighborhood around St amant and they didn't let them do a few things and there were some things they had to do.. For instance they were required to have a wall of vinal siding when they wanted all brick. Had a list of front door archways to choose from.
It sucks but it prevents some no taste cheap arse from building an obscure house in your neighborhood.
Yea I know HOAs have gone a little Nazi with coding. My parents are trying to build in a very old section of Charleston, SC right now, and the neighborhood HOA has been a nightmare.
Posted on 3/11/14 at 7:11 am to FootballNostradamus
quote:are you sure it's all the HOA and not the gov't?
My parents are trying to build in a very old section of Charleston, SC right now, and the neighborhood HOA has been a nightmare.
Posted on 3/11/14 at 7:11 am to FootballNostradamus
Thinking about it...
Maybe people buy them for the uniformity? I mean, when you buy a house in a subdivision where everything looks the same, and has set restrictions, it generally looks a little neater.
In the dick measuring world we live in, it sounds odd that some people don't care if their house isnt bigger or better than the one on the side of theirs but...maybe some people don't care?
I like a custom home but I won't poo poo people that buy track homes in organized/planned/restricted subdivisions.
Maybe people buy them for the uniformity? I mean, when you buy a house in a subdivision where everything looks the same, and has set restrictions, it generally looks a little neater.
In the dick measuring world we live in, it sounds odd that some people don't care if their house isnt bigger or better than the one on the side of theirs but...maybe some people don't care?
I like a custom home but I won't poo poo people that buy track homes in organized/planned/restricted subdivisions.
This post was edited on 3/11/14 at 7:14 am
Posted on 3/11/14 at 7:12 am to FootballNostradamus
I don't know how anybody could stand to live in a subdivision.
Posted on 3/11/14 at 7:12 am to yellowfin
quote:
Sounds like a suburb problem, not a Louisiana problem
Agree to an extent with the pop-up subdivisions and no real landscaping, but I guess the insane housing similarities just seem more pronounced in LA.
People just build boring, tastless houses here it seems.
Posted on 3/11/14 at 7:12 am to StinkDog12
Production builders
Posted on 3/11/14 at 7:12 am to RBWilliams8
quote:
A lot of newer neighborhoods give restrictions. Sister in law just built in a nice neighborhood around St amant and they didn't let them do a few things they had to do.. For instance they were required to have a wall of vinal siding when they wanted all brick. Had a list of front door archways to choose from. It sucks but it prevents some no taste cheap arse from building an obscure house in your neighborhood.
I get the concept behind the restrictions in order to keep some sense of symmetry to a neighborhood. You don't want it looking like a hodgepodge mess, but I also don't think it has to be so Melba toast or cookie cutter either. Houses with character, a relative design, and a little more variance, old growth trees, sidewalks, interesting street lights, etc make a neighborhood desirable long term in my observation.
Posted on 3/11/14 at 7:13 am to Pilot Tiger
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are you sure it's all the HOA and not the gov't?
Def neighborhood HOA restrictions.
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