/diy/ - Do-It-Yourself

>>2514747
the big house

>>>/r/mcmansionhell

>>2514747
My neighbor has a 2 bedroom wooden house poorly scabbed over a small 1 bed mobile home. Doesnt look that bad from the outside actually, but i worked on it for a while trying to help him out...it was a nightmare.

>>2514747
Thats a pretty vague descriptor; personally the ones that make my eye start to twitch are when people take quality materials and apply them to garbage structures in ways that render them useless even for recycling.
Extreme deterioration can be repaired, good architecture that's been butchered or otherwise defiled can be restored, but something like exquisitely turned exotic hardwood balusters or flooring or amazing natural stone that's been hacked up to go into some tract house shitbox in a failed attempt to make it appear "grand" and "luxurious" is usually not worth the effort to try reclaiming it.
In my experience Persians are some of the worst offenders and will projectile vomit money and precious materials all over the lowliest and most structurally questionable houses, and then when the 24×24 exotic imported marble quarry tile flooring cracks because the cheap ass stucco tract house they put it in is sliding down the hill and they call you to "fix it", they act like you are trying to scam them by suggesting a real repair and not just doing a cosmetic bandaid.

>>2516437
I'm the neighbor.

Well, let me tell you, this house is just plain awful. First off, that roof is as crooked as a dog's hind leg. And those windows are fogged up worse than my old truck in the morning. The front door is hanging on by a thread, just like my patience with Bobby sometimes. And that yard is a mess - there are weeds everywhere. It's just not a very good-looking house at all.

You know what I'd do if I were in your shoes? I'd tear that old house down and start fresh. It ain't worth the time and effort to try and fix it up. And you'll save yourself a lot of headaches if you just start over. Who knows, you might even end up with a better house in the end. It's definitely worth considering. So go ahead and give it some thought - you might be surprised at how much better off you'll be without that old, awful house.

And when you build that new house, make sure you power it entirely with propane. You know, propane is the ultimate energy source. It's clean, it's reliable, and it's affordable. Plus, you don't need no fancy electricity to run your appliances and lights. Just beautiful, clean propane for everything. You'll save money on your utility bills and you'll be doing your part to help the environment. So go ahead and make the switch to propane - you won't regret it.

Peggy, have I told you about my idea for an all-propane house? Think about it - no more expensive electricity bills, no more worrying about power outages. Just beautiful, clean propane for everything. It's not like we need all those fancy electrical gadgets anyway. I mean, what did we do before we had electricity? We managed just fine. So let's do it - let's build an all-propane house and make the switch to a simpler, more efficient way of living.

We should do it Peggy, we could make it real. The first home powered entirely by propane, not a wire in sight.

Two roads over, there is something I call "The Redneck Compound"

>Nestled between two swamps in a valley
>A singlewide trailer with an extended roof supported by stacks of tree stumps and logs
>A pool next to the road, it's usually green
>Five sheds, some wood and some steel, scabbed together to form mega-shed
>Also connected to the singlewide and mega-shed is a quonset made out of scrap metal and multiple layers of canvas tarps
>Another singlewide trailer is adjacent to the first structure
>Washing machine and dryer are in the lawn with 240 extension cords running to them
>Spigot runs to a shower head hanging from a tree near the road
>Giant burn pit in the center of the dirt driveway
>Makeshift spit formed from rebar, they're always cooking something on it
>Spit is powered by a 1970s F150 on cinder blocks with a belt running from the driveshaft like in Predator
>A large chicken-wire rodeo area complete with goats, a cow, two horses, and a shitload of chickens co-existing on about 900 square feet of grass
>New dog every week or two, since they let them run loose and they get hit hy traffic
>Trash and junk everywhere. There isn't a single clean spot on the property
I drive by it often to get to the highway. It's an experience.

>>2516564
Write "Yeti" on the side of that.

>>2514747

>>2514747
Thats nothing. Open google street view Bulgaria and check out. Houses of wealthy gypsies. There was a compilation somewhere. I'll give some examples

>>2517711
https://webcafe.bg/gradat/826747236-gradat-na-romskite-baroni-v-rumaniya/gallery

don't have a picture rn but
>4-story futuristic narrow home
>It's all large rusty iron panels with geometric cut out holes for windows and decor at the outside.
>can hear all the talking people is having inside from the sidewalk
this is where trashy people drug money goes

Spotted this while searching for a home yesterday. Which one of you did this?

A previous customer of my company bought this abhorrent clusterfuck of a house and tasked me with redesigning it to make it look "normal". In the end the amount of work required to do that was so expensive that they just re-sold it and bought a different house.

>>2517745
This is based though, like a medieval hall

>>2516564
Damn… that’s pretty fucking sweet

>>2517755
So many fucking windows on one side, and the other just some and the side even doesn't joke with windows too.

>>2516422
Her blog was funny when it first became popular. Seems like a throwback to 5+ years ago now.

>>2517713
those houses are pretty cool

>>2517713
>>2517711
I thought gypsies moved out of any house somebody died in.
At least that is what we hear about them here in brasil, maybe they're different in their natural spawn. But here they're always moving around.

>>2514747
Some crazy fuck painted her shitty little house bright blue, its vinyl siding so looks fucking terrible
Another would be they built a mcmansion right into a sharp hill, their backyard is just a huge sharp steep hill and they put a lot of windows on the back and some idiot spent probably 1.5 million buying it

>>2517745
>He doesn't have a gamer platform in his house
I bet you're married to 3dpd too

Not sure what's going on here but the interior photos show the back side of this mirrored grid to be drywall.

>>2519105
How do you get to the front door?

>>2516567
Reminded me of this green text.
>Be Hank Hill
>King of the Hill
>Own an ass-inine pet called a "Fluh-fhee Poneyyy", after succumbing to the constant whining of your not-so-good babbeh, Bobby.
>You are dissapoint in your son, but he is all you got, given your narrow-URETHRA.
>The definition of annoying shoulda been amendended with insufferable for this sin against God.
>However, with your son's attatchment and your feminazi methodist preacher's opinion, you are forced to tolerate the baggage.
>Shitting, whining, and crying.
>You are certain that your precious Lady Bird died from dysentary brought on by your "son's" new pet.
>You couldn't do much but secretly cry when Lady Bird died.
>Ever since then, this fluffy has made life increasingly miserable. Pushing you further towards the edge.
>Where you might use propane in a way that would shame Buck Strickland, and even God.
>One day you are having an Alamo Beer with your friends. Dale ,BOOMhauer and Bill.
>"Yep, yep, UHM-mmm, yep.
>Suddenly, a woman's cries sieze your collective attention.
>"Oh... Oh... HO-YEAH!"
>"Dang ol dang dang mooga boshirhgaohgro, what was dat... ol Hank-ol?", inquires Boomhauer.
>"I dunno, Boomhauer. Nancy didn't have a healing session with John Redcorn today, so it didn't come from my house. Hank? Whus going on?", replies Dale Cuckhold.
>"OH MAH GAWD!", exclaims Honk Hall.
>"Ooooooh, sounds like Peggy's havin a gud time", coos Bill Cucktrieve.
>While in collective shock, a unicorn fluffy with light brown fluff and jet black mane approaches the shocked group.
>"Tee-hee, soopa smawtie gib bestest speciaw huggsies to dummeh hoomins speciaw fwend. Make hew gib speciaw, speciaw pwace wawas an shakies. Dummeh hoomin es hoomin cuck naow!"
1/2

>>2516567
>>2519778
>Hank Hill stands there in shock. No expression, no reaction.
>Later, Hank Hill, Manager of Strike-Land Propane kills the "smartie" unicorn by forcing a propane valve into the fluffy's urethra.
>"Ill show ya good feels vermin! Have some propane jackass!"
>Propane fills the fluffy.
>"Screeeee! Nuuuuuuu! Nu gib bad aiwies to no-no!"
>Honk Hall remains silent, diligently filling the fluffy with PRO-pain.
>”Buck Strickland, please bless what I am about to do with propane.”
>”Eeeeeeeeeeeeee, nu can few no-no, owny buwnie owies! Huu huu huu huu!”
>Hank Hill releases the valve from the fluffy’s dick, grabs a match and lights the fluffy’s dick.
>”Tom Landry, if you are watching, this pass is for you!”
>Hank tosses the lighted fluffy 666 yards to the north.
>The fluffy explodes a few seconds after, over the heavens of Arlen, TX., in an immaculate burst of colour.
>”Try and best that, Wichita Falls, AKA South Oklahoma.
>Fuck the Sooners.
2/2

>>2517561
Take photos for us.

>>2514747

>>2519903
Unlimited free white noise when it rains.

probably this thing

>>2519203
The pathway from the porch to the driveway is barely visible just below the dark green shrubbery. There's a gate in the porch 'fence' to let you walk onto the pathway unimpeded.
T. Lived in a neighborhood with several houses like this.

>>2519105
I saw that one pop up & thought man, that would be a sweet living room with a full-on glass wall. Sadly it appears to just be a sun heater of some kind.

>>2520313
this looks like where the secret police invite you to have a quiet chat about your online activity

>>2520313
What am i looking at, what is embedded in that concrete?

>>2519105
It looks like a Trombe wall (for heat).

>>2514747

>>2514747
grover haus

>>2523520
That's genius.

>>2523520
just hire a couple midget as umpa-lumpa and you're all set

>>2523520
That leans so hard into making every bad decision that it actually almost works. Interesting. Like a modern, schizo Queen Anne for people that hate their neighbors

>>2523520
Odds that they got the flashing and everything right so there are no leaks?

>>2523772
Zero

>>2517745
Hernando MLS, apparently
>>2519092
based

>>2520313
>Thick concrete structure
>Ambush camouflage pattern
This guy is prepared

>>2517745
>we shall continue this meeting in the gameference area.

https://www.instagram.com/uglybelgianhouses/?hl=en

>>2520637
look like climbing holds.
the outside of the house is one big climbing wall apparently

>>2517745
Based and comfy pilled. When I have dreams about gaming with the guys I grew up with, this is where it happens.

>>2523520
>how many roofs do you want
>yes

>>2517755
i unironically like it

>>2517561
Genuinely want to see a pic of this anon, sounds like a real sight.

>>2517755

jesus christ

>>2514747

there's a place like a concrete box near my weekly diner that literally has "crack house" spray painted on it.

Another is a CMU building that I thought for a long time was just a desiccated outbuilding in the middle of the woods, well it turns out some redneck ass mf lives in there, and he's got all of 12x10 of room inside that ho

>>2516564
For what reason? Wouldn't the wood for that amount of m2 not always be cheaper than the mobile home?

>>2514747
Any public school

>>2523542
Was this the one with load bearing drywall?

I won't lie: I really like clusterfuck insane houses that are Frankenstein abominations of addition after addition after addition.

>>2530810
>load bearing drywall

>>2531066
https://youtu.be/w7zPiTHjzVI

>>2523520
So bad it looped around to being okay. It's like an art sculpture

>>2514747
My moms. Started renovating 7 years ago and still hasnt finished. Ripped out bathroom, no pathway, used the cheapest foreign tilers, and flat out refuses to let me do any work on the house because you need "a professional" to do the most mundane of tasks (even pressure washing an overgrown pathway was an ordeal). On top of that she hordes to high hell and back

I hate this fucker

>>2523520
It's the Winchester McMansion

>>2532520
Kek, knew that was Atlanta metro before even seeing the watermark. Diagonal siding was extremely popular with builders twenty to thirty years ago and there are tons of house with it, especially in the inner suburbs. Some builders went the extra mile with non-standard windows and as many odd angles as possible.

>>2532520

>>2523520
It's like those AI generated images

>>2532673
Kek

>>2525612
>gameference area
>>2526439
>I have dreams about gaming with the guys
If you're sitting there, staring at the other trannies, then you're not staring at a screen, i.e. not "gaming". ∎

>>2532520
Snellville and the surrounding area is full of that shit.

>absolute worst abomination of a house you've seen?
The worst? That's like asking about "the sexiest woman".

But I did see this fuckin thing the other day.

>>2519105
It’s solar heating, actually a very efficient way to heat/cool a home.

>>2523520

It's a Cape Cod revival...in the middle of Iowa.

>>2532708

that builder should be up on charges.

>>2532719
>>2532708
The only thing that gets me is that center rupee window being off center.
Everythig else... well, it's good for a black family's 1st home.
Fuck that window though.

>>2517874
It was a waterfront property in a cul-de-sac, the only view it really had was out the back. All the other sides were just facing other people's houses.

>>2523542
this

>>2534467
>when your home has fetal alcohol syndrome

>>2532763
I believe there's another window behind the tree the same distance apart as the one on the right

>>2532763
>>2534498
Yep. Still ugly.

>>2517875
I looked at it again a year ago and it didn't seem as funny. Like she's trying too hard now. Idk

Imagine having this across the street from your house and having to look at it each time you go outside.

>>2523542
>Sir we forgot to buy end trusses for the overhang
>>How much would it cost? $300?!?! Oh! Fuck that, just install the end trusses they sent

I'm a drafter at a civil engineering firm. Pre-covid we mostly did utilitarian & municipal projects. The amount of houses I've had a hand in tearing down and replacing with the most soulless, obnoxious, tasteless, bloated, and poorly thought-out houses I've ever seen keep me up at night. They're almost always for Indians/Chinese on top of that, and an absolute pain to explain to them why they can't build their 2,000sf sun room in a conservation buffer area. To top it off almost every single architect I've spoken to working on one of those projects is an absolute pants-on-head retard

>>2517755
Jesus, I can't even tell which way it's facing

>>2517755
looks like every new-money house built on LBI

Very happy to see my house not in this thread because I've posted it a few times on different boards and ppl always roast it

>>2517755
Was this in Ocean City, Maryland?

>>2516394
>TV
Woah, its becoming more civilized

>>2517797
Oh god, Sams cranium is expanding again

>>2517561
thirding, pics or it didn't happen.

>>2534467

>>2536695
is that from the Charley and the Chocolate Factory remake?

>>2536251
CAD monkey mad...

>>2536133
This would look fine in a dense residential district in japan.

>>2532708
that looks cool

>>2520313
Every house in Mexico is an indestructible bunker built over 100 years ago.

>>2519903
I had to look twice to see if that wasn't pic related, which is the oldest operating rice mill in the USA dating back to 1914.
Nobody does that kind of thing and gets away with zero maintenence better than Cajuns.

i feel obligated to post this

Any mcmansion packed shithole development are usually quite disgusting to me. Massive shittely made houses packed as close as they legally can. Friend rented one and I hated going out there since there was never any street parking and my truck would hang out into the sidewalk since his driveway slab was as short as they could make it.

nobody posted wayne's shed yet?

>>2534702
how would you make this look good?

>>2517745
swap out the blue carpet with the same shit on the lower level and get rid of the gamer chairs and i love this place

>>2517745
Open plan stuff like this is superior. More room for activities.

>>2517561
LARP
All those animals wouldn't be on grass, they would be on mud.

>>2517755
This is my dream house. Always wanted to have one like this since i played the first sims as a kid, feels comfy odd.

This was a house on grand designs. They spent £700k to build this. It's not especially hideous, just... pointless. I think it probably looked a lot more quirky and fun on paper.

>>2538866
Until someone rolls back without thinking, the chair tips over the edge and they break their neck.

Christchurch New Zealand

>>2539227
not pointless in areas that flood...there's cheaper ways of doing it to be sure, but there's plenty of practical reasons for elevating a house like that; easier to secure as well.

>>2520313
So it's a rockwall for thieves?

>>2539438
Why yes I do enjoy paying insane heating bills how did you know

>>2539438
Imagine having all that space under the house and not parking the boat underneath it.

>>2539777
is there something about living in colder climates that makes people retarded...?
People who lives in areas where AC makes up the bulk of climate control costs seem to be able to look at a pic of an alpine ski lodge or arctic research station without dismissing those structures out of hand as too hard/expensive to keep cold, but show a building perfectly suited to subtropical and tropical areas that are above 55-60°F for 340+ days a year and some tard ALWAYS has to quack about hurr durr muh cost to heat it.
>>2539833
Imagine living in a flood zone that requires being on stilts, where you very well might need a boat to escape or assist neighbors or get to supplies, and it gets pinned under your house by floodwaters and swamped/sunk and also damages the house as a hurricane passes through.

>>2539777
is there something about living in colder climates that makes people retarded...?
People who lives in areas where AC makes up the bulk of climate control costs seem to be able to look at a pic of an alpine ski lodge or arctic research station without dismissing those structures out of hand as too hard/expensive to keep cold, but show a building perfectly suited to subtropical and tropical areas that are above 55-60°F for 340+ days a year and some tard ALWAYS has to quack about hurr durr muh cost to heat it.
>>2539833
Imagine living in a flood zone that requires being on stilts, where you very well might need a boat to escape or assist neighbors or get to supplies, and it gets pinned under your house by floodwaters and swamped/sunk and also damages the house as a hurricane passes through.

>>2537164
Ye

>>2539891
Seems like you could move the boat if you were expecting a flood. Flash floods happen but not in wide open areas like that. The spacing of the poles seems to be the main argument against parking it under the house since there's not much margin for error and the consequences of hitting one can be high. Plus people who live in areas like that likely make frequent use of their boats.

>>2538862

>>2540521
>Flash floods happen but not in wide open areas like that.
Not true, you seem to be assuming that a "flash flood" only describes situations where water moves over the ground quickly in a lateral motion, like where you get walls of water and mudslides. That doesn't happen in the area where that pic is from, but the flat nature of the topography means that heavy rainfall overwhelms drainage precisely because there's virtually no pitch to make it move.
A flash flood there won't have much if any current component, but can rise from nothing to many feet deep in a frighteningly short amount of time even without things like levee openings or failures.
It also doesn't have to be hurricane related; some of the worst flash flooding in those areas is just regular rainstorms-

"More rain fell in Lake Charles, Louisiana, on Monday than during the two damaging hurricanes last year"

https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/17/weather/lake-charles-louisiana-flooding-trnd-wx/index.html

>>2514747
Those stupid architectcore nearly all-glass square boxes in magazines disgust me a lot more than even the worst mcmansions

>>2538825
>i feel obligated to post this
you win an internet, sir

>>2540553
Your brain has been infected.

>>2540582
No you

>>2532532
Haahaa

Feast your eyes. https://www.etuovi.com/kohde/h23949

>>2532673
KEK

im a virgin hi club

>>2517713
Thanks. I hate Bulgaria now.

>>2536695
SOUL

>>2540858
Did they use kicker braces for their finish decks hand rails!?

>>2532673
lel

>>2517745
>random blue floor
is this doom?

>>2514747
Went to a staff holiday party at our ceos house. you entered through the back door for some reason, passing her teenage sons bedroom to enter the house (the stench was unbearable) They had this massive, gaudy foyer with a huge curved staircase, but because the house was backwards it just faced their backyard.

>>2541515
That might make sense if it was waterfront property, which I'm guessing it wasn't since you didn't mention it.

>2015
>House hunting, looking for a long-term home and to GTFO of my lemon flipper-special of a starter home
>Checking out 3200+sqft log cabins up in the Blue Ridge Mountains
>$500k limit since the wife wasn't working full time yet
>Check out one cabin, absolutely gorgeous in the pictures
>Drive up, 3 car extended garage, 3 story cabin, picture perfect at first
>Walk in
>Something feels... off... very off
>Agent is doing the tour, wife and I give each other a weird look
>Decide to check the basement
>Screw jacks every 3'
>Walk to the exterior basement door
>Foundation is literally 4" thick, thin side of a typical brick and mortar
>Zero footers can be seen
>Zero support columns
>Evidence of foundation shift
>Homeowner knew, started pouring bags of quick set concrete over crusher run piled against rear wall, making this giant ugly mound of concrete like it was helping or something
>Go outside
>4x4 posts propped up against exterior log walls, screwed in with drywall screws
>Go back to the main floor
>Realize the entire house is bowed inward to a single point
>Wife picks up a marble from a decorative vase, drops it on the floor
>Marble rolls across 3 rooms to the hallway
>Oh fuck
>Tell the agent we're done with that house
>They wanted $449k but the damn thing probably needed $150k in foundation restoration work
>Just for shits and giggles, look it back up last year
>Some poor bastard bought it, owned it for 3 months, relisted it for $100k less and it never sold. I imagine it collapsed.

>>2541752
Me again

>Rented a house for 6 months in 2009
>Buddy owned the house, said $150/mo, SOLD
>I had visited once before and while it wasn't a great house, it would be ok for a little while so I could get back on my feet after a natural disaster wiped me out
>Move in day
>House was a hoarder-like disaster
>Every room was filled with trash to the ceiling
>Holes in walls
>One room had a raccoon in it that wouldnt leave, so I hucked a bug bomb in there and nailed the door shut from the outside. Never went back in there either
>Only one bathroom worked, toilet was smashed and you had to flush it by pulling a string looped over the light fixture
>Shower head was a 1/2" copper cap with holes drilled in it
>Most walls were ship-lap, you could see through to other rooms
>Every room was infested with large water spiders
>The foundation was split in half
>House was built in the late 1700s so septic was added later on but didn't actually go anywhere... it was a pipe that went into a liquid storage container in the root cellar. The container had a single drain pipe that went out and drained into the street culvert. I am not making this up.

That place was the worst by far

>>2517745
Oh I used to live there. One day I removed that little step and the gamers blew a fuse because they couldn't reach their conference table. My name is zoe quinn btw

>>2523520
It's like they did it on purpose

>>2540553
>>2540582
>in magazines
God I wish they were only in magazines. These are 90% of new houses going up near me. Please send help.
t. cityfag

>>2541806
>send help

Leave the city. Cities are disgusting.

>>2525565
Hernando, MS? Based I'm from there.

>>2516394
Let the Midnight Special
Shine a light on me
Let the Midnight Special
Shine it's ever lovin' light on me.

>>2540858
Whoah, where is that thing? Nice view tho.

Local one for sale, been for awhile (years).

>>2541754
Incredible

>>2542454
Finland

from nick rochefort's stream 'the king of florida'
https://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-detail/3130-Castle-Cove-Ct_Kissimmee_FL_34746_M66125-64502

>>2542629
Impressive, mc royal.

>>2542629
Is that some theme park?

>>2536251

what are some of the best ways to keep a house thoughtful, in your opinion? I'm going to build mine by myself and would love some design ideas from somebody with actual taste

>>2542885
nta, but get pic related. worth a buy, but I think there's a torrent out there somewhere

>>2536695
>A house for me-hee.

>>2542629
Reminds me of this subdivision near where I live that is medieval themed with a castle that was served as the main house.

>>2542581
I love wrap around porches. This isn't bad.

>>2523520
this was made by a child in the sims.

>>2538825
thankyou you are doing god's work.

>>2541754
holy fucking shit

>>2542581
this is literally not even bad.
little boxy, little ugly but nowhere near as bad as the amerimutt mcmansions in this thread.

>>2543086
oh my god ...
>>2543139
... it ticks almost all the fucking boxes

>>2514747

>>2539507
Just glue broken glass on top of the wall

>>2514747
does anyone have the image of the osb house just fucking rotting? covered in black mold?

>>2543086
A lovely blend of Georgian... Tudor and... Norman?

I don't even know how you'd go about altering it to make it cohesive. Remove everything Tudor style. You can probably replace the outcrop to that balcony with some simple stonework to frame the window.

Garages and outbuilding? Maybe style them like a converted stable/coach house?

No idea what to do with the turrets. One you could possibly make angular and turn into something styled like a clocktower?

>>2517561
that is an empire of dirt. that is not an abomination it is a life goal.
>I drive by it often
get photos right now.

>>2517713
they still dress like homeless shit.
what is wrong with these people.

>>2543099
>>2543139
Mcmansions are just tacky, but this house has been build from questionable materials and without blueprints.

>>2519203
there's a gate but wait till you see the real problem, the eves.
you have to duck every time you go in or out of that house.

>>2543172
>without blueprints.

>>2542688
Norman Bates Ranch, with just a hint of Best Korea landscaping.

>>2523520
beetlejuice!

>>2542885
'101 Things I Learned in Architecture School' is a collection of simple architectural best practices that can help you avoid common mistakes in design. Not all of it is directly applicable to designing a house but it does give you a better frame of concept to think in while deciding on floorplans and architectural elements. It's a very easy read and makes for a good mini-sized coffee table book when you're done with it. Good bathroom reader too.

>>2517755
Do you have interior layout of rooms? That would be icing on the cake...

>>2541565
Fair point, but it was not.

>>2543206
Thank you for dropping this anon, Im a few pages in and its really insightful

>>2543439
Care to share a link?

>>2539438
give a nig 10 mins with a chainsaw and tell me how "Secure" that house is

>>2536251
As someone in a similar situation who did mostly residential work as opposed to municipal/commercial, I can give you a bit of good news and bad news. The bad news is that, as a civil engineering draftsman, your opinion on the aesthetics of the house does not really hold much weight. The good news is that, as a civil engineering draftsman, the aesthetics of the house is not your problem unless it's going to be your neighbor, so there's no reason to give much attention to the architectural plans beyond the footprint of the building and where utilities come in.
Also, when they can't understand that there's a restriction on the property, you suggest they talk to the village/city/county building/zoning departments about it. Or, you (or more correctly, the engineer of record) calls up the architect and tells them about the restriction which should have been on the plat of survey of the property anyway so that the architect can tell the owner about why he has to change the plans because he didn't do his due diligence.
Also also, an owner being his own G.C. is the absolute worst. Avoid those like the Plague.

>>2543397
what in the doctor theodor seuss geisel is going on there

>>2543452
You mean 9 3/4 minutes longer than it would take to gain entry using the same chainsaw at ground level?
GREAT point, poltard.

>>2532603
>>2532520
I instantly clocked this as Metro Atlanta too. Pre-Covid these houses with the diagonal siding and asymmetric roofs went for a good $30K less that nearby more normal looking houses. I was very close to buying one and I wish I had with the way metro property values have skyrocketed especially in Cobb and Gwinnett where there are a lot of these

>>2543397
That physically hurts to look at.

>>2543142
>white trash when they suddenly think they're rich

>>2539891
>>2539895
>is there something about living in colder climates that makes people retarded...?
says the guy who double posts.
also no, you are retarded. people go with what they know, as do you. that house could be anywhere.

>>2517755
Bottom left looks like the Soprano's house.

>>2532708
Hey, it made the Kessel Run in less than 12 parsecs.

>>2536133
That's just their mailbox.

>>2528567
What if you already have the mobile home

>>2543086
a properly laid out estate style neighborhood with some distinct homes is pretty nice to walk or drive through. people go fucking overboard with the styles sometimes through. There's a right way to do this and builders rarely do it right.

>>2544056
My brain hopes you'll post "Just kidding, this is a photoshop edit" so I can sleep at night.

>>2544056
>we call this the cat corner

>>2543175
Found the interior. You can see out the window that the eaves do come down quite a bit but they might extend far enough out that they don't interfere with the door.
Also: HOLY 1970s! Wood paneling and carpet everywhere!

>>2544088
Fat man's demise
>>2544092
My lungs are screaming from all the asbestos that's in that ceiling.

>>2532673

>>2544083
yeah don't worry, it's a shop, you can see the line down the middle.

>>2543397
this looks like a swastika on google maps right

>>2532603
>>2532520
>>2543507

I almost feel like I know that exact house. But there are a ton of them around. My FIL was a builder around Atlanta from the 70s into the 90's. He's responsible for some of these, as well as a ton of McMansions.

The other day I was doing work in a guest house and when you walk in the restroom the toilet and shower were on a 2ft platform because apparently plumbing the waste lines through concrete was too hard

>>2544092
this is how it feels when I'm listening to Steely Dan

>>2532714
Wow this kitchen is kind of charming actually.

>>2544056
this is like that dream where your being crushed inside your own house

>>2544445
Feels more Gordon Lightfoot to me, especially given its location near the Great Lakes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EOh3EwzoOU

>>2543206
It's sure not "101 things I learned as an architect in the real world". I mean I'm flipping through this, and it's filled with lots of fun nuggets, but it sounds like all the lofty bullshit you tell to young A-School students, and have to unlearn the first 5 years in the real world.

>>2544923
tell us if this one is any better
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Things-Didnt-Learn-Architecture-School/dp/0648693708

>>2543169
Gypsies gonna gyp

>>2532673
When I saw that house I immediately thought
> Soiface

>>2541177
You have to be 18 to use this site. We don't need any retarded kids on here.

>>2543142
Niggers in Kansas

>>2544914
wood paneling gives me a sleazy vibe more than a folky vibe, but I get where you're coming from

>>2543451
http://www.egyptarch.gov.eg/sites/default/files/pdf/Books/101%20Things%20I%20Learned%20in%20Architecture%20School.pdf

>>2519903
I think I made this house in Fallout 4

>>2539201
underrated

>>2539227
it is especially hideous

>>2543172
What the fuck

In Germany and Austria there are "Hundertwasser Häuser", houses designed by Austrian artist (((Friedensreich Hundertwasser))). Tbh, they are ugly as fuck.

>>2516564
crackhouse escape pod

>>2547051
Is the purpose to lower the property value?

>>2543172
Lol does one walk up the stairs and then just jump?

>>2536695
2br 1ba $2.75 million
I know what I've got

>>2542885
It's simple. Reject modernism.

>>2547111
Usually these buildings are often goverment owned or public (like schools). I think old art hags working in the goverment spend "culture" fundings for these.

>>2526514
me too - seem comfy

>>2547117
How to keep a residential design thoughtful...
>It's simple. Reject modernism.
LOL. The primary principle that guides modern residential design is thoughtful consideration of the physical and emotional needs and lifestyle of the people who will inhabit it, rather than forcing them to compromise any of that for the sake of mindless adherence to tradition.
Besides all the elements of older designs that had to compromise for the sake of available materials, heating and cooling equipment, weatherproofing systems, etc. and aren't necessary, there were also social "rules" and trends that dictated how homes were designed that nobody in their right mind would ever build today even in a revival style home and nearly always upgrade to a more modern design when rehabilitating older structures for full time living.
There are certainly elements of traditional architecture that make sense, and thoughtful modern architects have no issue with using them where appropriate...but the idea that "traditional = gud, modern = bad" is the exact opposite of thoughtfulness, it's just gratuitous sentimentality.

The other inconvenient fact about people who promote this notion is that al.ost without fail they have never lived in a thoughtfully designed modern home of the type they dismiss out of hand. In many cases they can't even recognize the elements of modern architectural design that have been retrofitted into older structures or are regulary used in the design and construction of traditional styled modern structures that they assume are "better" because they happen to mimic the looks of older buildings.

>>2547188
Tl;dr

>>2547188
>its super complicated
No, it's a deception. McMansions are an optical illusion where 40% of the length is the garage.

>>2517755
WHICH SIDE IS THE FRONT?
I do kinda want a two story walkway connecting my garage/studio apartment to my main house. thank God I'll never have enough money to put my noveau riche ideas into action.

>>2523520
we have a winner

>>2532716
24.5 degree sun angle gang

>>2541754
Killdozer it immediately

>>2539433
Average suburban britbong home.

>>2543397
Shalom, are you having financial troubles?

>>2540561
updoot pupper whomst doggo thank you for the gold kind stranger m'gentle'sir

do they make american houses out of cardboard so that cops can break in and kill you in your bed?

>>2547113
Based. I fucking hate that boomer.

>every single example is from the US

>>2519203
you vault over your fence

>>2536300
Post house

>>2544056
Ah, the womens entrance.

>>2549527
Where people are far more likely to have the resources and freedom to build what they want even if it's weird. as long as it meets minimal safety and (possibly) zoning regulations (that can be challenged and waived).

I guess if I was renting a closet in a dank 19th century stone hovel and needed a loicense to put up a shelf that would chap my ass too.

>>2523520
There's an almost identical house on my street.
Odd considering it's a dirt road middle of nowhere in Michigan.

>>2536133
Looks like a Lego house.
The area by the windows is where they used flat pieces because they ran out of regular x4 bricks

>>2517745
Napoleon Dynamite's crib looks comfy

>>2514747
All post modernist architects must fucking hang and don't even debate me.

What really grinds my gears are the garage-first houses in the US.
YOU LIVE IN THIS THING, GOD DAMN IT, NOT YOUR CAR.

>>2551741
>the downspout just dumping onto the walkway

>>2551739
A pyramid is about as ancient a traditional building form as you can get, dingus- so old that nobody really knows exactly how old it is.

Or were you referring to the overwrought froodly-doodly nonsense architectural wedding cake behind the pyramid?

>>2536237
That's not done with trusses it's hand framed. Notches are cut in the first truss, 2x4s are nailed in on top of the first truss and against the second truss sitting in the notches. Long piece of rough Sawn 1xwhatever is nailed on the front. Plywood typically a hardwood plywood is used to sheet the gap.

>>2551741
Most people don't live on a street curb so it's not relevant unless you're a hobo.

>>2551741
the only reason this exists is to have a doorway in the garage thats close to the kitchen so you dont have to walk that far with your groceries. That's right, people would rather live in a house with a five head for 30 yrs if it meant they didnt have to walk as much

>>2552002
>the only reason this exists is to have a doorway in the garage thats close to the kitchen so you dont have to walk that far with your groceries.
No, it exists to get a garage on the narrowest lot possible so you can build the most houses you can in the neighborhood.

>>2551336
Maybe americans would be healthier if they were actively kept from making their built environment as sterile ugly and gay as possible
t. Pennsylvanian

>>2543397
Looks like the architect accidently exported the blueprints with 2 houses clipping through each other lmfao

>>2523542
Child's play

>>2520313
>>2520637
speed holes
to make the home go faster

>>2516422
How could you do this to me?

The street they live on doesn't have street view, so this is as good as it gets unless someone wants me to make a little drive later today.

The problem is that American houses have been getting increasingly more recyclable (shorter life expectancy), but we don't have the land scarcity necessary to encourage recycling (demolition of old homes).

Its going to be weird in the future when there are huge tracts of these behemoths slowly decaying.

>>2523520
There's something charming about overcomplex, convoluted designs like this. So long as the design itself is consistent (and not deciding randomly to make one part brick, one part glass etc)

It's the garage that spoils it. It's so awkwardly connected and just a big barn looking structure. A million hours in photoshop.

>>2551741
i've often thought about the perks of this style home or if mine had the same qualities
>don't have to shovel much snow, none if you drive a truck
>don't have to walk your cans up a really long driveway
>can have a dumptruck ass backyard because the house is nestled all the way up to the front of your property
>don't have a "side" door so you never wonder where your packages have been left
>benefit of having a porch entry as the only entrance is it's sheltered
>can go out and have a smoke right there and not get wet, can also just pop into the garage
>open the garage door and have some beers and watch the rain
>don't have a bullshit front yard/garden to maintain just to keep up with the jones', just throw down 12 sq ft of rocks and spray it with weed killer once a year
>single floor so easier to heat and you can easily land a pizza on your roof
>lone pine tree is also your christmas tree just dangle some lights on that beast
>oh fuck left something in my car (don't have to put a jacket or shoes on)
>cookiecutter community meaning a lot of houses look this way or have very similar so there's nothing to be ashamed about
yeah i'm thinking based

>>2549388
>>2539433
>average suburban britbong home
Honestly mate I saw that and thought "that's not bad actually"
That's how bad our average suburban britbong homes actually are
Besides it's in Christchurch NZ so it should stand up to a quake. Real bong suburbia can't handle big gaz falling out of his van.

>>2544029
Yeah with anachronistic styles, less is more
A house near me has gothic doorways and windows, but other than that it's totally normal and is otherwise built in the local styles
However if the architect said "lets give it minarets and make it look like a 16th century german cathedral" it'd be shite
picrel is not the same house but basically the same. Other than the gothic bits it's 1:1 the same as the surrounding houses, and there's some tudor era houses in the town so it doesn't look out of place

>>2523520
That stinks like coastal south texas

>>2552829
God I fucking hate newbuild estates. They're somehow worse than the Terrace housing mazes of post-war London.

>half thickness fake brickwork classing.
>minmaxed use of space so you get 3 tiny bedrooms and no storage.
>pathetic front gardens that are as small as they can be whilst being able to legally claim they have a front garden. Back gardens are also tiny and usually sloped so you can't do anything with them
>driveways eat up space that could be used to build more houses so you won't get one, just a single allocated space around the corner from your house
>narrow winding roads outside the houseswith no double yellows that quickly have bumper to bumper parked cars and make it hellish to drive down.

>>2542629
You are like tiny baby
43.6032099, -85.3237838
>built as house for retired baseball player's wife
>she rightfully hated it
>is now event venue

>>2547051
Gimme the favela look b0ss

>>2552843
Mate that's a GOOD new build

>>2517755
This looks similar to the place down the road from me. It started off as a small single story house and a garage about 50 feet away. Then some Mexicans bought it. They started adding on to the house, and eventually put a second story on it. They also put a second story on the garage and turned it into another house. Then, they started adding on to both the house and the garage house until they met. This all took about 10 years. The last step was to stucco it all, because that's what Mexicans do around here.

>>2544056
>Enter ye in by the narrow gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many are they that enter in thereby. -Matthew 7:13

>>2543086
>New castles

>>2552843

>>2517745
looks like a fucking eric andre set

I dont understand why mcmansions are a thing. You can make a mansion with cheap material. You dont need to make them look retarded.

>>2553076
They're meant to look flashy to the average eye, which is untrained in basic architecture. It's funny to see houses with grand fronts on them but cheap vinyl siding on the other three sides of the house. Used to be that only the back of McMansions were like that in order to hide the cheapness from the street.
Personally, I'd like for my house to look like a boring and simple Cape Cod house from the street and then have it extend back into the property where prying eyes can't see.

>>2553086
I went with a big group to a 5 bedroom airbnb that was a mcmansion. The place was shit. It looked good from the outside, and probably would have been impressive on the inside if you were there a short time for a dinner party. All of the interior finishes were either cheap, or shittily done. None of the millwork miters fit right, the giant bathroom had shitty $199 vanities from Lowes, the red and blue pex was sticking out of the walls, the tile was sloppy, so was the sheetrock work. The place got worse the more you looked at it.

The city I grew up in had this monstrosity. On windy days neighbours would stay inside because bits of it would fall off and get thrown all over the neighborhood.
Fortunately it was torn down a couple years ago while the owner was in jail for being a mob boss.

>>2553189
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jzih6NZPDdA&t=216
If he hadn't been sent to prison, wonder how much work would have been done on it before it simply collapsed in on itself.

>>2551741
Cope and seethe europoor /n/igger

>>2553189
Sadly all members of his family were cursed to die young in a bunch of unusual and creative ways.

>>2553189
Oh Russia.

>>2543139
"So which style would you like for your house ?"
"YES"

Describing it gives you a quick architectural education

>>2553189
I unironically like the bottom of the right picture. It probably looked alright before they started adding new floors and let it fall into decay.

>>2517561
Don't tease us like some little bitch, at least send the google map co-ordinates

>>2520313
Does that house have measles?

Not a house, but an apartment in Darwin, Australia.

Is there a practical reason you need the shower right next to your fucking bed?

>>2551741
>What really grinds my gears are the garage-first houses in the US.
>YOU LIVE IN THIS THING, GOD DAMN IT, NOT YOUR CAR.
WTF are you on about? Who lives in their garage?

>>2553443
Is it a studio apartment?

>>2553443
This is normal for these comblock tenements. If anything, this is a generous size, compared to the pods we'll all end up in eventually. You'd get this as a reward for informing on people who don't eat ze bugs.

>>2553503
It's supposed to be the cheapest penthouse in Australia ($160,000 AUD)

>>2553189
There's a kung fu movie with wizards. The wizards' magic is dependent on how high they can cobble together their towers. I think the same mechanic is going on here.

>>2552099
>If I can build it myself, I can sell it myself!

>>2543172
>without blueprints
>I found a truck full of lumber and I am just going to start building and see where it goes

>>2553189
>american mob bosses
>live in nice mansions and estates
>russian mob bosses
>live in horrifying wooden skyscraper abominations

>>2553443
If the weather is always hot and dry, why not

>>2517745
thats two trailers welded together, isnt it?

>>2517755
my friend lived in a house like this. It was built in the early 1900s into the side of a hill and was originally a river-side inn turned speak easy/smuggling port during prohibition. It was actually pretty fucking cool.

>>2519105
that looks a thermal mass wall, real popular hippy shit in the 70s. kinda made a come back in the 2010s when people started getting back into permaculture and passive-solar building.

>>2532532
First thought. Probably haunted by a mexican bean fart ghost

>>2553285

>>2539833
I know a family that was fucking torched in their beach house because the golf cart batteries blew the fuck up and lit the entire house

>>2539777
Why yes I do having my home flooded every hurricane season

>>2553285
This is very cool until you realize that car smells
mud smells, oil smells
smoke from starting the car in the room. wife mad
if you have wife that cleans she will get too close to the car
if you have kids they must not play near the car
if it rains now the floor is wet
KAY8Y

>>2543172
>without blueprints.
Talk about living life on the edge.

>>2545465
Thank you, and the government of Egypt, for that link

>>2554808
Did anyone ask about parking golf carts with Great Value batteries from 1975 in them? Anyone at all? No?

Nice one sentence story. I'm sure it's all real and it has all the details we need to decide if there's anything of value.

>>2554808
>Why yes I do having my home flooded every hurricane season

Don't live on the coast, idiot, or in areas with snow either. If the weather can easily kill you that location is suboptimal especially when you retire. Plan to be old or suffer even more.

>>2554903
It's a fucking electric vehicle, chudcel.

>>2532708
it doesn't even match the pitch of the roof

>>2554716
why she got such fat tiddies

>>2540561
Good morning sir!

I want to live in a bunker but I will probably never be able to afford to build one. can I compromise by bulldozing dirt against 3 sides of a one story box house?

>>2555953
Yes, if you build your house with reinforced concrete or cement block. We call that earth bermed construction. It gained a measure of popularity in the 1970s ecology movement.

>>2555880
Becuz Trosley, dumbass.

>>2532708
i kinda like this one its like the countach of houses

>>2536133
i wish i could post it without doxxing myself but i literally live across the road from a place worse than this. its just 2 storeys of concrete slabs with a lime green door and a few of the cheapest prefab windows they could find. with a tiny little piece of corrigated tin on 4 posts to park their car under kek
its funny but i legit dont care one bit so its all g

>>2556702
and now that i think of it a few houses down is a lady that lives in a tiny house type
place made out of what im pretty sure are just raw exposed cinder blocks and has a little princess tower thing too
fuck me

>>2555991
I unironically love that. It's like a modern hobbit house.

>>2532673
OMG MY SIDES

>>2556709
>>2555991
It looks nice if you like to have only one side with windows but what i really question is water infiltration