We're house hunting a bit and have looked at both new and old homes.
Love: masters with no tub but a huge shower with a seat
Second floor laundry
Double master closets
Second floor open loft/sitting room. For either office or kids hangout.
Hate: This is NOT common but saw in a house yesterday and I cannot get over it. Master on first floor (fine) but it had TWO (the ONLY two) doors to the patio area. So guests either had to go through the master or the garage and around or from the front yard there was a gate too. Dumbest "custom option" ever.
Also, too many rooms in the main living area/floor. I just want ONE big open room for the kitchen/eat in/living. Maybe, an office. Maybe. But really I'd prefer no formal living or dining area.
I actually HATE the second floor open loft areas! Like they would have been a deal breaker for us if there wasn't another bonus space behind closed doors somewhere. My reasoning is that it would be used as a kid space, and I don't like any kid space visible and not behind closed doors for noise too. We prefer basements for kid space, so if a house had a basement and a loft area, the loft would be completely wasted space for us.
Post by maudefindlay on May 9, 2021 15:23:42 GMT -5
Dislikes:
Houses with no entry, you just walk into the living room. Lack of windows, like an entire side of a house that has no windows. Carpet in bathrooms, Gross! A different paint color for each room Formal living rooms Open loft area off staircase Upstairs hall/walkway open to down below Too small front porches (not deep enough for chairs)
Loves: Wood flooring Slate tile flooring Primary bedroom on main floor, other bedrooms upstairs Mudrooms Screened in porch out back Stone patios Walkin closets Builtin bookcases, cabinets, and shelves Walkin pantry
We're house hunting a bit and have looked at both new and old homes.
Love: masters with no tub but a huge shower with a seat
Second floor laundry
Double master closets
Second floor open loft/sitting room. For either office or kids hangout.
Hate: This is NOT common but saw in a house yesterday and I cannot get over it. Master on first floor (fine) but it had TWO (the ONLY two) doors to the patio area. So guests either had to go through the master or the garage and around or from the front yard there was a gate too. Dumbest "custom option" ever.
Also, too many rooms in the main living area/floor. I just want ONE big open room for the kitchen/eat in/living. Maybe, an office. Maybe. But really I'd prefer no formal living or dining area.
I actually HATE the second floor open loft areas! Like they would have been a deal breaker for us if there wasn't another bonus space behind closed doors somewhere. My reasoning is that it would be used as a kid space, and I don't like any kid space visible and not behind closed doors for noise too. We prefer basements for kid space, so if a house had a basement and a loft area, the loft would be completely wasted space for us.
I agree if the great room is a two story tall ceiling, but the layout we saw yesterday would have been perfect, even for sound control.
We have a basement and its set up for the kids (9 & 11) to hang out. We have a tv, switch, chairs, a for-real ski ball machine, pop-a-shot and a 1980's Ms. Pac Man. We had two families over last night. Our main floor has an open floor kitchen/family, then dining room and living room (office). Parents were at the 8 person island playing games, and the kids kept coming in the family room. We finally convinced them to go in the office to watch tv. Not once did any of the games in the basement even get turned on. Like what the actual fuck is wrong with you children!?! Leave us alone!
Post by lolalolalola on May 9, 2021 18:07:39 GMT -5
Hate: Open to above living rooms. Corner tubs (how was this ever a thing?) Columns Two tier islands 12x12 tile backslashes and fireplace surrounds Huge primary bedrooms Bathrooms without doors Single sinks
Love: Open floor plans Hardwood throughout the whole main floor Big islands Double sinks Lots of windows In floor heat
Love: Charm and character of older homes Solid wood floors in warm/natural tones Tall ceilings White cabinets Big showers in the master Large screen porches/three season rooms Gas fireplaces Mud room Walk in pantry
Hate: Gray laminate flooring (!!!!!) Houses with gray everything (walls, floors, etc) - feel so industrial prison complex to me Kitchen sink with the divider Columns Flat top cooktops The horizontal tile that was popular around 2010 (accent tile - it's hard to explain) Popcorn ceilings Natural wood trim if it's not a home built before ~1960
I just want to clarify on the "dark woodwork/trim" bit to say that *early 1900's* trim is SIGNIFICANTLY DIFFERENT than *late 1900's* trim. The dark molding I hate is that cheap shit from the 80's.
Also, now I wanna know what neighborhood you're talking about jlt19
McMansion cathedral ceilings Super open floor plans Front entrances that open directly into the living space Double kitchen islands LaCornue stoves - I guess HATE is a strong word but I almost always think they detract from rather than add to a kitchen
Love:
Beautiful and/or classic staircases Butlers pantries Crown molding Kitchen sitting areas Interior and exterior French doors
+1. I don't think there isn't a single neighborhood in our metro that would entice me to enter the housing market right now willingly, lol.
@cerealk
New Town. I realize it's a very polarizing place, but I love most everything about the concept.
H and I both looked out there (both before we knew each other and after we were married). There’s a lot to love about it, but for us, the physical location was too far out. I especially like the colors and styles they use in the houses!
New Town. I realize it's a very polarizing place, but I love most everything about the concept.
H and I both looked out there (both before we knew each other and after we were married). There’s a lot to love about it, but for us, the physical location was too far out. I especially like the colors and styles they use in the houses!
Us too, plus the school district (I wanted the year round, so much for that....). But now our commutes would actually be identical.
We talked this weekend more and we're just going to take what we like about the houses there and do what we can to ours here. Obviously we won't get the same community or ability for kids to run wild like a small 1950's town, but they'll survive. Plus, they have VS and Quest over the summer here.
We actually have a balcony on our house and it needs to be replaced, so we're talking about bumping it out and adding a front porch, to actually emulate the houses there a bit. No fun color though, as we just did siding a few years ago! I picked up something off FB marketplace a few months ago and saw this house and made DD take a picture so I could show DH my idea, lol.
We're house hunting a bit and have looked at both new and old homes.
Love: masters with no tub but a huge shower with a seat
Second floor laundry
Double master closets
Second floor open loft/sitting room. For either office or kids hangout.
Hate: This is NOT common but saw in a house yesterday and I cannot get over it. Master on first floor (fine) but it had TWO (the ONLY two) doors to the patio area. So guests either had to go through the master or the garage and around or from the front yard there was a gate too. Dumbest "custom option" ever.
Also, too many rooms in the main living area/floor. I just want ONE big open room for the kitchen/eat in/living. Maybe, an office. Maybe. But really I'd prefer no formal living or dining area.
I actually HATE the second floor open loft areas! Like they would have been a deal breaker for us if there wasn't another bonus space behind closed doors somewhere. My reasoning is that it would be used as a kid space, and I don't like any kid space visible and not behind closed doors for noise too. We prefer basements for kid space, so if a house had a basement and a loft area, the loft would be completely wasted space for us.
Same. We decided to keep our kid tv room on the second floor open without a door to keep an eye and ear. Well now I regret that decision completely because they are just so loud. We are finishing our basement at the moment and I plan to kick the kids' space wholly downstairs and convert the second floor kid tv room into a second home office.
We are getting a bunch of interior painting done right now and are doing some redecorating as part of that, so I've been thinking about this a lot lately.
Love: Neutrals with pops of color. I'm never going to be sold on either super traditional or grandmillennial style.
Rooms with at least three walls. Our previous house was a mostly-open floor plan and our current house has much more defined rooms (although still in most cases, partly open to each other, in that it's not like each room has only a small doorway) and I really like it. Noise doesn't carry as much and it is very conducive to feeling like you are not on top of other people, which has been a big plus in the past year.
Interesting art and/or objects, but not too many.
Lots of natural light and good electrical lighting.
Chairs and furniture that are actually comfortable for seating.
Natural stone, wood and metal surfaces.
Wood and tile flooring.
Walk-in pantry, or really, any kind of large pantry cabinet.
A mudroom/entry area that helps keep wet/dirty/outdoor clothing and shoes kind of contained.
Dislike: Faux worn rugs, usually where a traditional pattern is obscured/only partly visible because the rug is made that way. There are SO many rugs like this, it seems to be a default style now. I don't care for regular oriental-style rugs either, and IMO making them look faded/worn is not an improvement.
Gold-tone finish, either the muted matte type that is super common right now, or the shiny brass that is more dated. I far prefer silver or oil-rubbed bronze as a finish, but based on what I see in light fixtures and coffee tables, gold-tone is the popular trend.
Open shelving in the kitchen.
Overly stylized lighting fixtures. Our house came with pineapple-shaped sconces in the living room and the outdoor post light looks like a palm tree with lights that have fronds. So weird. We took the sconces down over the weekend and DH sold them on FB marketplace, and I was so happy to see them go, lol.
Built-in kitchen desk.
Solid-surface flooring in the basement. I strongly prefer carpet in a basement -- much more cozy, warmer underfoot and less tendency toward echoes, which bug me inside a house. DH wants to eventually do LVP + rugs in our basement, and I refuse to even consider it in my basement office.