/diy/ - Do It Yourself

[Anonymous No.290134]

My dad who is a custom home builder says that modern looking homes will look dated in the future. He might be right but I prefer something like this to any home he builds. What do you guys think?

[Anonymous No.290137]

like this

[Anonymous No.290142]

everything that looks dated to us was modern once.
look at the cars of the 50's, the 'mod' style of the 60's. all the shag carpet and shit was all once pretty modern.

if something simply looks good it will continue to look good regardless of era. good design is timeless.

[Anonymous No.290156]

Style is a fickle mistress. Some shit, mostly plain stuff, hangs around unchanged for decades after it was first introduced and can seem timeless. Was that made in 1930? 1960? Last year? I don't fucking know!.

Other shit just screams when it was made. The weird curves, pastel colors and chrome of the 50's. The sunken living rooms of the 60's, colored in harvest gold and avocado green. The fake wood and shag everything of the 70's.

In generations to come people will look back on the homes pictured and do the same shit we do now. What were they thinking?! Why is everything stainless steel, even the appliances? Why do the homes look like half finished industrial warehouses? Did these people know know these things look like and old RV with the paint stripped off?

[Anonymous No.290157]

>>290142
>if something simply looks good it will continue to look good regardless of era. good design is timeless.

10000x this. And, the stuff in the OP pics are terribly ugly to me.

[Anonymous No.290160]

>>290157
You prefer something like this?

[Anonymous No.290161]

>>290160
Nope, ugly McMansion useless porch.

I prefer stone houses with slate roof, 2-story, with a wrap-around porch.

This fits the description, but isn't exactly what I mean, though I do like this style.

[Anonymous No.290164]

>giving a fuck what future generations of strangers think of your own personal aesthetic and architectural considerations

[Anonymous No.290165]

>>290164
I think the logic is that it won't depreciate rapidly in value.

[Anonymous No.290166]

>>290164
essentially, if it is ugly now, it'll be ugly later.

[Anonymous No.290168]

>>290166
Looks are subjective and personal preference though. I think that stone houses are an antiquated design but he prefers them.

[Anonymous No.290170]

>>290168
I prefer stone because it lasts longer and is more environmentally friendly, though I like stone because of looks good. I don't like 99% of red brick.

[Anonymous No.290172]

>>290170
Stone is really expensive though.

[Anonymous No.290173]

Most houses are boring and ugly as shit anyway. Anything with any kind of imagination and originality is automatically a plus in my book, even if it's 'dated' 60's concrete brutalist architecture. I'd rather live in a house like that than one of these homogeneous faux-traditional boxes that they call houses today.

[Anonymous No.290175]

>>290172
It can be and it depends on many factors. Like where I live, the actual stone is free, but the labor of course is not.

[Anonymous No.290177]

>>290164
You will give a fuck when it is time to sell.

In my area, there are entire neighborhoods of these early 70's modernistic style homes that are disproportionately devalued. To protect your investment, stick to something more traditional.

[Anonymous No.290179]

>>290173
I guess the upside is that you can pick up one of those at a great bargain price. I just wouldn't build a new one.

[Anonymous No.290190]

>>290177

But fashions change. In the 70s traditional buildings were thought of as old and dated and would have been devalued. Now they're not.

Who's to say what the opinions will be in 25-50 years.

Maybe traditional will still be 'in' maybe it will be something else. Theres no way to know.

[Anonymous No.290195]

>>290156
I'm very confused by that picture. I cannot tell what size it's supposed to be.

[Anonymous No.290201]

Niggas can't appreciate Victorian clapboard design

[Anonymous No.290226]

>>290177
why care about this kinda shit? I intend to build my own house, then live in it until i die. Fuck EVERYONE who says "OMG PROTUCT UR INVESTUMUNT LULULUL", you are what is wrong with this world. A home is an investment in LIFE, not money.

[Anonymous No.290252]

>>290201
this is where i´ll live in heaven..

[Cheshire Cat !!GnpRNMAnL6W No.290265]

>>290252
>>290201

But that looks like shit, and you're 5 feet away from your neighbors. I'd live in a renovated barn on 10+ acres over anything here but maybe >>290173

Land is pretty good investment too.

[ChinaFag !!vFkDWtdIVaQ No.290267]

I think nowadays, after about 10-20 years something will become dated. Then gradually after that it becomes "retro" and "stylish". So your dad is partially right. A small minority of designs will never become dated (classic architectural styles of various regions).

[Anonymous No.290280]

Neoclassical > *

[Anonymous No.290429]

Put up a nondescript garage, then go underground

[Anonymous No.290491]

>>290267
The way people are "I need granite counter tops" and shit like that, even a 10-year-old house is considered dated and undesirable. Even classic older homes "need" to be gutted and renovated!

Home buyers have become extremely materialistic in the last 10 years. Stuff that 20 years ago was considered a "luxury" exclusive to rich people, is now considered a "necessity". But are people any happier now that they have a kitchen out of a magazine? No.

[Anonymous No.290507]

I hate just about everything that's been built in the last 20 years. My home was built in 1914 and I think its a lot more ascetically pleasing than most of the cookie cutter, tract style housing I see developers putting up.

[Anonymous No.290608]

Stop calling them home buyers, they are house buyers. A home is something you raise a family in, live in, and probably die in. These fickle yuppie'esque children of the century are not interested in that, they are interested in status symbols.

Build your own house, build it for utility first and looks second. Make sure it is something you can grow old in, because the days of hipster house trading are dead and over.

[Anonymous No.290652]

>>290491

Tell me about it.

My parents decided to move into a smaller house since my sister and I had moved out and listening to the "horror" stories of the houses they visited made me ashamed. They would discount nice houses with everything they wanted if they didn't have granite counter tops or a certain cabinet color. These are people who, on average, eat out 2 to 5 times a week too.

[Dr Faget !YgQRHAJqRA No.290661]

>>290280
Maybe if you're building a courthouse or a mansion. Some styles need scale to function

>>290491
>>290608
It's not like people weren't greedy, short sighted assholes 50 years ago. Now we just have the money to act on it

>>290173
Fuck yes. I want my house to look like it was designed by a Soviet committee to intimidate the fuck out of people

[Anonymous No.290664]

>>290491
Granite is shit.
Concrete is where it's at.

[Anonymous No.290668]

Just get something you like. If you're going to spend 10+ years living there then with that utility + increased equity is going to more than offset the style differences.

We own a 50 yo ranch style home. You don't see many ranch style homes being built anymore because it's a dated design. But it's not terrible and serves us well. If we sold it we would get idk like 160,000 bucks for it which is at least as much and probably more than what it cost to build in the 60's adjusting for inflation.

Now if you're one of those weirdos that have really wacky tastes like wanting to live in a purple windmill house then yeah you might have a problem and the next owners may just bulldoze the building and only really pay you for the land. But for most designs you're fine.

protip: Have your dad read The Fountainhead and act like a smug punk.

[scroton !SW7uh6H3p. No.290684]

If you're young when you buy your first home look into getting a duplex. If you're handy enough to do maintenance on your own and you don't mind living next to someone (it isn't much different than living next door to someone in a separate house) then it can be very lucrative. If you're doing well enough to float two properties you can rent out both sides once you move out. (You could conceivably do the same thing with any other house, but there are very few places where you could rent out a whole house at a worthwhile rate)

The house I'll build to raise kids in will be a plain-looking box designed to be nearly maintenance-free. If I want eye-candy I'll build it next to a house I enjoy looking at.

[Anonymous No.290685]

>>290684

I know you have a job why are you up so early?

[scroton !SW7uh6H3p. No.290693]

>>290685

Going spearfishing in Arkansas. It's a 4 hour drive both ways.

Bout to leave by myself soon if my buddy doesn't get his ass up.

[Anonymous No.290744]

>>290137
fuken shit
but single looks good

[Anonymous No.292363]

ur dads definitely right. those ugly 70's houses use to be hip and cool.

[Anonymous No.293662]