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stosh

Darth Bailer
Jul 20, 2001
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N8 said:
How about you put your money where your opinion is and fund a spec house and see how it goes?
sounds good to me. Down there I would have no problem doing it.
 

Brian HCM#1

MMMMMMMMM BEER!!!!!!!!!!
Sep 7, 2001
32,119
378
Bay Area, California
If all goes well, we might score the keys today. If not mon or tues. The title company is pushing to fund today, I hope so I want to start moving sh*t out of my garage to the new house.
 

narlus

Eastcoast Softcore
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Nov 7, 2001
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stosh said:
sounds good to me. Down there I would have no problem doing it.
you gotta realize who are yr customers though. i'm guessing that the middle of swampwater LA isn't gonna be up on the cutting edge of design...
 

kinghami3

Future Turbo Monkey
Jun 1, 2004
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Ballard 4 life.
Tenchiro said:
Wow, cheap. I need to move the hell away from Seattle...
that's what I was thinking. I think my parent's house in Bham is now rated at over $250,000, and I think they bought it for a little over $30,000 in the mid 70s! :eek:
 

stosh

Darth Bailer
Jul 20, 2001
22,238
393
NY
narlus said:
you gotta realize who are yr customers though. i'm guessing that the middle of swampwater LA isn't gonna be up on the cutting edge of design...
Cutting edge or not you can design a way better house than that at the same price.
 

I Are Baboon

The Full Dopey
Aug 6, 2001
32,383
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MTB New England
Brian HCM#1 said:
If all goes well, we might score the keys today. If not mon or tues. The title company is pushing to fund today, I hope so I want to start moving sh*t out of my garage to the new house.
Good luck man. Post some pics if you can.
 

MMike

A fowl peckerwood.
Sep 5, 2001
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just sittin' here drinkin' scotch
My dad hates the prominent garage. He's been designing houses for over 40 years. He's doing a huge one for someone now.... it's like 75 feet x 60 feet..... It's pretty cool...... One day I want him to design me one.... I'll need some land first....
 

douglas

Chocolate Milk Doug
May 15, 2002
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Shut up and Ride
man...some of you are house SNOBS! lets see pics of your homes




me, give me 4 walls and a roof, and a big garage........I dont really care whats prominent or about the architecture.
 

Andyman_1970

Turbo Monkey
Apr 4, 2003
3,105
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The Natural State
stosh said:
Cutting edge or not you can design a way better house than that at the same price.
Agreed. Those houses look just like the high$ houses going up here in Little Rock, every third house is identical............ick.........same crappy roof pitch, no trees, huge protruding garage, no front porch.....
 

stevew

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Sep 21, 2001
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Could you have moved the entrance to the garage to the side or the back and have more windows in front, or is that how the owners wanted it? It would make it look more like a house than a garage with two bedrooms.
 

douglas

Chocolate Milk Doug
May 15, 2002
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Shut up and Ride
stevew said:
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Could you have moved the entrance to the garage to the side or the back and have more windows in front, or is that how the owners wanted it? It would make it look more like a house than a garage with two bedrooms.

my money says if he did, the driveway would be going thru the neighbors living room
 

I Are Baboon

The Full Dopey
Aug 6, 2001
32,383
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MTB New England
douglas said:
man...some of you are house SNOBS! lets see pics of your homes


me, give me 4 walls and a roof, and a big garage........I dont really care whats prominent or about the architecture.
:stupid:

But then again, I am easy to please. Seeing the pics N8 has posted here and in the past, I'd let him build me a house. Arched doorway, square doorway, triangular doorway...who give a rats ass? :p
 

stevew

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Sep 21, 2001
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douglas said:
man...some of you are house SNOBS! lets see pics of your homes




me, give me 4 walls and a roof, and a big garage........I dont really care whats prominent or about the architecture.
I'm guessing it is these peoples first house.

They are saving their money to have Stosh design the Ivory Tower of their dreams.
 

MTB_Rob_NC

What do I have to do to get you in this car TODAY?
Nov 15, 2002
3,428
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Charlotte, NC
Wow what a freaking tough crowd.... I am not a fan of the prominent garage either, but when you live in a densly populated area you cant drive your car through your neighbor's house to get into a side/rear facing garage.

Agreed N8 is a tool when it comes to his political views, but I liked those lights :thumb:
 

douglas

Chocolate Milk Doug
May 15, 2002
9,887
6
Shut up and Ride
stevew said:
I'm guessing it is these peoples first house.

They are saving their money to have Stosh design the Ivory Tower of their dreams.

not sure how many peeps want their ivory towers designed by someone who lives in a horse barn?

BURN!
 

Biscuit

Turbo Monkey
Feb 12, 2003
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Pleasant Hill, CA
stosh said:
Just to let you know N8, arched door ways, brick facades, and funky wall colors do not make a house nice.
They are cheap and easy ways to sell dumb Americans.
but faux brick and funky colors can make a crappy house feel that much less-crappy.
 

BillT

Monkey
I prefer the side entry garage, but they require wider lots (or a sacrifice of living space) which may or may not have been available to N8. Personally, I think the house looks nice - something perfect as a 1st house for a young couple.
 

likeustoleit

Chimp
May 9, 2003
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It's a snout house!


Taking over a cotton field for a crappy subdivision, it's sprawl.
I realize that everybody's got to live somewhere, but they don't have to settle for some no sidewalk/no porch/isolating you from your neighbors, poorly planned, least common denominator non-neighborhood.

From a planning point of view, there's little a locality can do to keep developers from slapping up this sort of crap, except offer various incentives to them to come up with better designs, not only for the houses themselves, but for the subdivisions too.

This is the kind of stuff that's happening all over my area now, farms being sold off into a series of little one-house-every-125-feet cul de sacs. Man, I hate to see them coming.

Man, this hits a nerve like biting on tin foil.
 

justsomeguy

Monkey
Oct 3, 2005
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narlus said:
exactly. they got fed up w/ the house.

it didn't happen to be Gruff, did it?
Hah, not unless Chevron has instituted some radical new dress code/weight loss/hair growth program for their refinery managers.
 

buildyourown

Turbo Monkey
Feb 9, 2004
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South Seattle
Wow, you must live in a really crappy part of the country to get a house for $190k. Lets face it, any place worth living house normal houses starting at 300-350.

Oh, and my garage is detached and invisible from the street. Just the way it should be.
 

Rockland

Turbo Monkey
Apr 24, 2003
1,870
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Left hand path
buildyourown said:
Wow, you must live in a really crappy part of the country to get a house for $190k. Lets face it, any place worth living house normal houses starting at 300-350.
:think: That's not necessarily true.
 

MTB_Rob_NC

What do I have to do to get you in this car TODAY?
Nov 15, 2002
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Charlotte, NC
buildyourown said:
Oh, and my garage is detached and invisible from the street. Just the way it should be.
So to get to your house or your car, depending on where you are, you have to walk outside? Kinda defeats at least 1/2 the purpose of the garage doesnt it?
 

N8 v2.0

Not the sharpest tool in the shed
Oct 18, 2002
11,003
149
The Cleft of Venus
You can thank the land developers for subdividing into smaller and smaller lots and charging more and more for them... the best I can do to get a 'side entry' garage on a house is to do it like this house I built a couple years ago...

 

mcA896

Turbo Monkey
Aug 15, 2003
1,160
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Cape Cod, MA
i actually like the house, N8. Just not the location. Who doesn't need a big garage? when you have quads, mx bikes, mtbs, and various other implements of fun, more garage space is always helpful :thumb:
 

N8 v2.0

Not the sharpest tool in the shed
Oct 18, 2002
11,003
149
The Cleft of Venus
stevew said:
Could you have moved the entrance to the garage to the side or the back and have more windows in front, or is that how the owners wanted it? It would make it look more like a house than a garage with two bedrooms.

Meh... it's not my personal style, but it is what sells best here... which is what you want when you are in it to make money.

On the other hand, I hate an architect that tries to ram their personal taste on a client because they 'think' they know better than them...
 

N8 v2.0

Not the sharpest tool in the shed
Oct 18, 2002
11,003
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The Cleft of Venus
Mtb_Rob_FL said:
Wow what a freaking tough crowd.... I am not a fan of the prominent garage either, but when you live in a densly populated area you cant drive your car through your neighbor's house to get into a side/rear facing garage.

Agreed N8 is a tool when it comes to his political views, but I liked those lights :thumb:

In order to build a functional side entry garage, you need at least 25' of space between the garage door and the property line... that ain't happening here where the lots are only 55' wide to begin with.
 

N8 v2.0

Not the sharpest tool in the shed
Oct 18, 2002
11,003
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The Cleft of Venus
mcA896 said:
i actually like the house, N8. Just not the location. Who doesn't need a big garage? when you have quads, mx bikes, mtbs, and various other implements of fun, more garage space is always helpful :thumb:
True dat!!!

If I could figure out a way to cram a 3rd car garage on these little lots, I'd make a fortune!
 

N8 v2.0

Not the sharpest tool in the shed
Oct 18, 2002
11,003
149
The Cleft of Venus
stosh said:
sounds good to me. Down there I would have no problem doing it.

Everything is relative. If you can do it here, you can do it there.




Good news today (Sat), the f'ing sheetrockers are doing their thing... now everyone pry that do not drive another sheetrock screw into the waterline like the last 2 times.... :nuts: