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re: Looking to build an Acadian style home up here in Okie Land. LA architect recommendations?
Posted on 5/26/17 at 9:44 am to Y.A. Tittle
Posted on 5/26/17 at 9:44 am to Y.A. Tittle
I think this thread has shown me I need to ask builders what their best selling home styles are in this market and make minor changes to one we like accordingly.
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Posted on 5/26/17 at 9:58 am to okietiger
I used Zaunbrecher Design in Lafayette. We didn't end up building the home, but they did a great job listening to us and designing something unique but still traditional to meet our requirements. Check out their website to see some of their residential designs.
For the record, if you are building a true home and not just something you plan to have to sell sometime soon, I would recommend spending entirely too much time thinking it through.
And I would read stuff by Marianne Cusato. Just start with her website and read through the principles by which she designs. She's the lady who designed the Katrina Cottages.
And in reply to your latest post, listen to the builders but remember most of them simply serve themselves and will not have your best interest in mind.
For the record, if you are building a true home and not just something you plan to have to sell sometime soon, I would recommend spending entirely too much time thinking it through.
And I would read stuff by Marianne Cusato. Just start with her website and read through the principles by which she designs. She's the lady who designed the Katrina Cottages.
And in reply to your latest post, listen to the builders but remember most of them simply serve themselves and will not have your best interest in mind.
This post was edited on 5/26/17 at 10:01 am
Posted on 5/26/17 at 10:11 am to okietiger
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Steve Madden Homes in Denham Springs
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Michael Campbell in Lafayette
fricking gross. None of those are "Acadian" style homes. Those are builder-grade, track-house, abominations of cultural appropriation for the masses.
THESE are "Acadian" homes...
Build it right or stop calling it Acadian and ruining the term.
Posted on 5/26/17 at 10:12 am to okietiger
We used them on our first house, used Madden for our second.
The wife prefers Acadiana, the builder liked the Madden plan better.
The wife prefers Acadiana, the builder liked the Madden plan better.
Posted on 5/26/17 at 10:56 am to nola000
Interesting.
What style do the ones from Steve and Michael fall in to?
What style do the ones from Steve and Michael fall in to?
Posted on 5/26/17 at 11:13 am to pdubya76
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Madden is very hard to work with. I would look around a bit before I went that route. We used him to draw our first house and just thought he was quirky. We went back when we wanted to start our 2nd house but he was a jerk.
Unless something has changed in the last 9 years, I thought just the opposite. I thought he was quite accommodating.
Posted on 5/26/17 at 11:21 am to okietiger
Creole Design LLC in Houston
Posted on 5/26/17 at 11:26 am to okietiger
The best of the best -
Mike Sullivan with LRK
Mike Sullivan with LRK
Posted on 5/26/17 at 11:31 am to okietiger
Why not just move back la and buy one?
Too much cultcha?
Too much cultcha?
Posted on 5/26/17 at 11:33 am to Nado Jenkins83
I've got established clientele here.
Plus we love Norman.
Plus we love Norman.
Posted on 5/26/17 at 11:37 am to Supermoto Tiger
Beautiful homes.
Posted on 5/26/17 at 11:49 am to okietiger
I'm just messing with ya mitch
Posted on 5/26/17 at 12:10 pm to okietiger
We ended up using Residential designs of Hattiesburg,Ms. he was quite accommodating and was willing to design what we wanted.
We live in the country and did not have any covenants that we had to stick to. We wanted a farmhouse style and that's what we did. We were very pleased with the plans and the finished home.
We live in the country and did not have any covenants that we had to stick to. We wanted a farmhouse style and that's what we did. We were very pleased with the plans and the finished home.
Posted on 5/26/17 at 12:19 pm to okietiger
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Interesting.
What style do the ones from Steve and Michael fall in to?
21st century track housing.
One can build new homes to look just like beautiful, old historic homes and the costs are pretty much the same as that track housing your looking at. People build houses like that out of laziness and a lack of imagination.
Here in LA we have thousands of subdivisions full of houses like the ones youre calling "Acadian". Just like all those 1960's era, one-story, brick ranches, no one in 100 years is going to consider them to have any architectural value. Build to the old, respected styles and you'll have a beautiful house.
Dogtrot.
New Orleans Shotgun.
Colonial.
Georgian.
Victorian.
Spanish Mission.
Craftsman.
Midcentury Modern.
Ultra Modern.
This post was edited on 5/26/17 at 12:40 pm
Posted on 5/26/17 at 12:24 pm to nola000
Posted on 5/26/17 at 12:54 pm to nola000
Gorgeous house.
So we just found potentially a better lot but in the conveyance you have to use minimum 75% masonry work...
Posted on 5/26/17 at 1:00 pm to okietiger
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you have to use minimum 75% masonry work...
No problem...
BTW. Since stucco is technically "masonry" will that pass? You can do almost any style home in stucco.
This post was edited on 5/26/17 at 1:02 pm
Posted on 5/26/17 at 1:03 pm to okietiger
You can always use ugly, cheap, red brick and then make creative use of fig ivy and espalier...
This post was edited on 5/26/17 at 1:04 pm
Posted on 5/26/17 at 1:05 pm to RichJ
I'm not sure why he was like that towards us. He seems more interested in using a stock plan versus drawing a custom. Just my opinion.
Posted on 5/26/17 at 1:42 pm to pdubya76
I love this thread.
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