Best era for home building?

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Mid-90's. Quality was still good. 10 foot ceilings started to become standard.

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True. If you're looking for something to renovate, you'll have a pretty good base to go from. Most should have copper wiring, unlike the aluminum wiring fiasco from a few decades earlier. Plumbing was more PVC for drains and copper for water supply lines. Now the flooring and wall finishing leaves something to be desired in some of them, but as far as structural, and houses having good HVAC and electrical/plumbing, that is a good time period to look for.

Best era for home building?

1960s for me personally. Many of those mid-century and ranch style houses have cool layouts and materials (real wood everywhere, sliding glass panel doors, brick) that are only in very pricey custom homes today.

1920s, those houses are solid and used old growth pine, not the new fast growing crap.

1920s? Old wiring, termites, cast iron piping. Also, not set up for central air. Looks wise? Probably.

Right now.


If being comfortable in your home is desired plus non-insane utility bills.


Shitty homes have been built throughout time. Many of the antebellum "mansions" were thrown up as fast as possible will little to no thought as to maintenance or home comfort. All for looks and people lose their shite over them.

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honestly it was the 60s and 70s. You’ll have to rewire and maybe replumb but the bones were never better. Mass production of overseas building materials was not a thing yet, structural and interior framing and exterior envelopes were overbuilt because that’s what they had to work with.

that’s what I would be looking for if I were buying

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These are built to last, many with solid wood paneling on the interior, but aesthetically they are shite to look at and they led to many of the old style homes in South Louisiana to be torn down (a great sin in my book).

There was an old plantation type home on the land my grandfather and parents landed on. It was the main house my grandfather lived in for several years, but it was torn down to build a ranch style, brick home. I would kill to live in that old house today. Sosay it was a bitch to clean (it was spacious) and my maw maw wanted it gone. Tore it down for cypress scrap and up went the ranch house. This was the early 70's as my dad built one at the same time. They are solid homes still standing today with good hurricane resilency but are not pleasing to the eye.

There is no right answer. It depends on where they were built and what codes were enforced in that area. The 60s and 70s were rife with irregular and bad construction. Also, for homes built then, they used a lot of aluminum wiring, which can be problematic.