new built houses
By c1masters
@c1masters (54)
March 22, 2007 3:12pm CST
I have been looking at houses on a newly built estate over the last couple of weeks as i am looking to move house. DO any builders or architects actually think that the tiny boxes that are apparently supposed to house our bathrooms are adequate even for a child? What has happened to the soul of residential house building? Don't they realise that we are human too?
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@michelledarcy (5220)
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22 Mar 07
I thinkt hese small houses are usually aimed at first time buyers who can't afford anything bigger and are single.
I had a tiny house when I was single and even with my daughter it was big enough. In fact I could still easily live in a house that size with my 2 girls now, as it had a garden so there was somewhere they could play.
@c1masters (54)
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23 Mar 07
true enough, i appreciate the cost effectiveness of it all, but does cheap always need to mean without a soul? A garden would be a pull though
@smacksman (6053)
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22 Mar 07
Oh yes, they know you are human - in fact they know exactly how human you are, down to the last inch. The architects are the people to talk to, not the builders. The builders just build what they are told to build using the materials they are told to use.
Check also the local planning authority because they will be telling the architect what he can and can't do; the density of the housing will be goverened by their overall plan for the area. They will govern what materials can be used as well.
Believe me, houses just don't happen. They are very, very strictly controlled.
The bottom line is - I couldn't agree with you more. That is why I live in a 40 year old house!
@c1masters (54)
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23 Mar 07
I feel in safe hands with this response; knowledgeable and with a heart. Buying older sounds like the way forward, better start saving the pennies.
