re: Wtf was going on in 1970s home designs?

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Those curtains Joe Burrow's parents had the other day are straight out of the 90s.

I wouldn't even know how to describe the style

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Funeral Parlor

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i have been kind of thinking i want one

and then i saw this post and realize i may not

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What's funny is about a year ago there was a thread asking something like "what is the wood paneling of today" and I said outdoor kitchens and I got showered with downvotes and a couple of screeds about how it is the single best on that poster's property.

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To be clear: the original owners built the house with an actual fish tank in the wall for real fish.

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I looked at a house for sale about 20 years ago, it had rock bed stream running through the living room with a foot bridge over it leading to the main entrance. Looked at a number of other houses that had to have been decorated by Elvis.

My wife loves them. I hate the exterior but I have seen some remodeled that look amazing. The low ceilings do bother me.

Just to think that 2,000 sq ft homes were built and completed in 6 weeks back then. Contractors had all direct hires for workers, not subcontractors. No one with construction management degrees.

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Watching Fixer Upper right now and most of the homes built in the 1970s are fricking wild.

One house they just showed built in the 70s had an atrium in the foyer.

Living rooms seemed to be built below the rest of the house, popcorn ceilings, carpet everywhere, wood panel walls, fricked up paint schemes, etc.

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as opposed to the current practice of repeating the same 6 floor plans in a several hundred house development over and over and over again.

Current houses are mostly soulless

Some of y'all have shitty tatse and want to be trendy. White farm house is more of a classical style. It's a reverse of the ultra modern bullshite with the vessel sinks and other items.

Want a house that stands the test of time? Look back on what items have remained in style decade after decade.

The comment about the outdoor kitchen is a perfect example though of how some take a classic element and frick it up. A simple gas grill with a outdoor fridge and a tv will always be in style. But people decided if simple was good, extravagant would be even better so now you go full stoves, habachi grills, crawfish burners, wine coolers etc being put in. Like was stated, that is going to age like the master bedroom wet bars did.


To the posters saying those houses would last and new ones wouldn't....horse shite. New houses are built 100 times stronger and have to have inspections and outside of Nola that means something.

A new home built to code in south la so much better than those 69/70s homes it's not even funny. Especially if spray foam is used. The electrical is a huge upgrade in safety alone, building materials are much better. Plans have to be reviewed and approved etc.

60/70s they were just throwing them up. Sure you had some master carpenters who built houses and did things the right way but most where thrown up with no regard to anything.

I personally don't like the Dr Horton homes either, but I understand wanting to live in a new subdivision near great schools etc. If you are only bringing in 125-140k as a family and have multiple kids, it's a damn good option to maximize cost per sf.

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60/70s they were just throwing them up. Sure you had some master carpenters who built houses and did things the right way but most where thrown up with no regard to anything.

I personally don't like the Dr Horton homes either, but I understand wanting to live in a new subdivision near great schools etc. If you are only bringing in 125-140k as a family and have multiple kids, it's a damn good option to maximize cost per sf.

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I was making like 50k when I bought my first house. It was very cheaply built. Particle board cabinets and baseboards, vinyl siding on the back so they could save a little on brick, cheap appliances, toilets, flooring etc. Our range hood "vent" didn't even have a vent running outside.

The ac was just barely large enough for the square footage and couldn't cool the house below 78 during the day because there was no shade. Half of the stuff in that house wouldn't last 15 years.

Our current house was custom built by two LSU professors. It had been updated 2-3 times over the past few decades.

I'm sure there are some very nice higher end/custom homes being built today but I'd take a remodeled 70s ranch over one built by KB Homes or Dr Horton all day.