>shutters >they don't shut 21st century in a nut shell
@jeremypalmer7177
21 күн бұрын
I have much hatred for shutters that don't shut. Lol I'm currently rebuilding my house and I'm planning on making my own shutters that actually shut.
@tayet6875
21 күн бұрын
"CURB APPEAL" *jazzhands
@everydazetuesday
21 күн бұрын
i dream of real shutters 🥰
@MtJochem
21 күн бұрын
I have shutters and they are great both in summer and in winter, and best if you really want to sleep in. I don't get this one, all you need is a hinge and it adds so much more. On the other hand, I don't have AC while it gets in the 110's here, gotta love and hate Europe.
@jeremypalmer7177
21 күн бұрын
@@MtJochem yeah, I really don't understand why real shutters are never used here in the states. Maybe a building code thing? It would seem useful in the summer for reducing cooling costs and also certain parts of the states that have severe storms.
@xz9592
21 күн бұрын
Note to viewers: Stewart's mustache is fake. 100% PVC and muskrat fur, attached with deck screws and bituthane. I'm best friends with his mustache outfitter.
@Libertaro-i2u
20 күн бұрын
His glasses may also be fake.
@johnkeck
17 күн бұрын
Lol
@everydazetuesday
21 күн бұрын
sadder is that the majority of builders do this fakery badly. stone in gable ends, columns that end at the top of a foundation, larger 2nd floor windows over tiny windows on the main.... all bad and done often , creating horrble streetscapes. i worked decades in tract building and regret every compromise.
@pineapple8992
20 күн бұрын
Exactly. The absolute worst is clapboard on exterior, free-standing structural columns, e.g., gas station roofs, etc.
@HisameArtwork
19 күн бұрын
I lived 5 years in Michigan. I thought our 80's communist buildings were bad ... then I saw your twig houses and their bills. Lunacy.
@christopherzehnder
18 күн бұрын
@@everydazetuesday You said it, man! There’s a lotta badly built housing out there.
@demammoet
16 күн бұрын
@@HisameArtworkI live rurally (USA), I'm from Europe. I went from artistic stone and brick, to vinyl and brick veneer, often together. Brick veneer to me, is as obvious and attractive as a pig with lipstick on. I can appreciate vinyl for its hideous utilitarianism, it's unsightly 🤮, but honest. Real problem imho, when there's real brick, bricklayers here are so uninspired, there's not one touch of artistry, it's like a blank canvas on a white wall.
@adammacer
2 күн бұрын
@@pineapple8992 Sorry, but no.. the ABSOLUTE worst is river rock/pebbles on 4" posts.. also abortions like the proportional holocaust of that house masquerading as a mansion at 11:29..
@willabyuberton818
20 күн бұрын
What's sad to me is when still-functional elements are removed in order to be stylish. Take awnings; many homes do without them and therefore are substantially hotter than they need to be.
@amicaaranearum
18 күн бұрын
Technology Connections has entered the chat.
@Sekir80
17 күн бұрын
@@amicaaranearum Wanted to comment something very similar! :D
@prophetzarquon1922
16 күн бұрын
And shutters! Fake shutters are pointless (& stooopidly trashy looking), but real shutters _are still useful!_
@Sekir80
16 күн бұрын
@@prophetzarquon1922 I think in the age of abundant energy we willingly forgot how to build efficient homes. Shutters were meaningful. Awnings were meaningful. Porches were meaningful. And I'm just scratching the surface here, I guess.
@katarh
11 күн бұрын
@@prophetzarquon1922 Functional shutters are still available in hurricane zones. But they definitely cost a lot more.
@tjpprojects7192
21 күн бұрын
Two things I absolutely HATE are uninsulated attics, and watertanks in attics. All the dog-shit home builders here in Tennessee are all evil for doing these things.
@budmartin5701
20 күн бұрын
In the south it's also common to put the hvac unit and ducts in the hot attic of all places. Makes no sense and very few builders seem to even question this practice
@peglor
19 күн бұрын
Where else do you put the water tank? Many appliances aren't rated for full mains pressure, so having a reservoir feeding from a fixed, low height is assumed for these to be installed. Also extremely useful when there is an issue with the water supply as the toilets still work until the attic tank empties.
@TrogdorBurnin8or
19 күн бұрын
Unconditioned attics (the insulation is beneath the floor) are _much_ cheaper and easier to build than conditioned, liveable attics with complex rooflines and dormers everywhere. It's literally better to just build a second or third floor with full walls. Until you get to "Curb Appeal" and "HOA" and "Height Limits" and fakery; Some custom homes even install dormers facing a sealed-off attic in order to comply with the neighborhood aesthetic demands. In the North, unconditioned attics with simple rooflines are also basically the only natural way to get proper roof venting - almost anything else causes problems, big or small, with ice damming.
@lVlegabyte
19 күн бұрын
@@peglorin my part of Texas the garage is the most common place for a water heater.
@scrappmutt2
19 күн бұрын
In Germany, they actually build out the attic into livable, well ventilated areas. In America, its a jungle gym of trusses littered with blown-in insulation so boxed in that its hotter than it is outside. That's what I hate.
@_suspi
21 күн бұрын
I live in a 1889 American Victorian house in the west coast, and I became obsessed with the building styles of the time period. Amusingly, your video also applies to the same homes built before the Arts and Crafts movement. Industrialization and the lumber mill meant that ornate embellishments can be made en masse and shipped across the country, so skilled woodworkers didn't need to be on-site to build the house. Dental moldings, ornate newel posts, scalloping, stick style, corbels, intricate scrollwork, and ridiculous paint colors were barfed all over these houses. People faked excessive opulence because it was cheap to do it now. Arts and Crafts became a reaction to that and tried to bring things back to intentional woodworking. I love flipping through the 1897 Sears, Roebuck & Co. Catalogue. Shopping at home and having it delivered? What an amazing concept.
@noleftturnunstoned
20 күн бұрын
Great point. We have been "faking" it for longer than we have had cheap plastic siding. Other examples: rustications on 19th and 20th century stone and brick buildings, or cast figurines and gargoyles on early sky scrapers.
@mpettengill1981
20 күн бұрын
Good comment. I live in a house that was built in the 1920s, in a neighborhood that was established between 1850 and 1880 or so. My house is effectively a foursquare, but they put a lot of Victorian embellishments on it to, I presume, better fit in with other houses in the neighborhood. Oh, and the siding is all wood clapboard and cedar shingles - vinyl just wouldn't look right on it.
@TwistedCyclonix
18 күн бұрын
I would much rather have mass produced details made of real wood/quality materials than cheap plastic versions. It does make me wonder though, in 100 years from now are we going to be lamenting the loss of the “craftsmanship” of houses built today?
@hufficag
18 күн бұрын
@@noleftturnunstoned Bring back the gargoyles. And batman
@_suspi
17 күн бұрын
@@TwistedCyclonix I can see a world where all building materials are made of extruded composites and resins with foam sheets for structure and we'll miss the good ol' days of 2x4s and nails.
@Liisa3139
21 күн бұрын
The thing that disturbs me the most is that the houses are too big - and especially too big for the plot. There is no gardening or interesting outdoor activities happening on such cramped spaces. No wonder the residents don't connect with the place. Suburbs like this are ultra boring. This is environmental damage in large scale.
@GeraldLeenerts
21 күн бұрын
I’d add that homes are built without being able to easily change the interior layout, meaning they are much more expensive to remodel (more material waste) and have a high amount of wasted space.
@everydazetuesday
21 күн бұрын
i tell my kids those suburbs are the future ghettos. streets like canyons of giant garages, with poorly built, badly planned monstrosities behind them. hate the suburbs
@famitory
21 күн бұрын
american houses are the perfect size for the three to four families that have to co-live in them in order to be able to afford housing
@liamthompson9342
20 күн бұрын
Yes I always think if you're going to be 1' away from your neighbours and have no yard, it might as well be an apartment which is a much more efficient use of space, and cheaper.
@Croz89
20 күн бұрын
Some are, others have bigger plots to compensate. The worst I saw was in New Zealand, there were bungalows with a 1 metre strip of lawn around them on a new development. Why they couldn't put an extra floor on top and give everyone a decent garden I don't know.
@andyjwagner
20 күн бұрын
I was thrilled to find out my first home, an 1910s era two-family had shutters that *actually shut*. I made a video of myself closing them once just for fun.
@jareknowak8712
20 күн бұрын
Ha ha ! :)
@rheinhartsilvento2576
16 күн бұрын
Wonderful🤗 Glad you could get such a great house🌈
@jbirzer
21 күн бұрын
I live in a townhouse complex that was built in the 70s. The were all originally built with vertical wooden siding painted with earthtones. Over the years, many of them had switched over to cream colored vinyl siding. I get why people did that, because in what is a relatively budget townhouse neighborhood, it is cheap and easier to maintain. That being said, I also think it is pretty ugly. It is why I have still kept the wooden siding on my house (with upgrades in material where appropriate), as well as the original color, which is one of the few green homes left in my neighborhood.
@Dante_The_Great
21 күн бұрын
The wood siding also adds some extra strength, which is obviously a plus.
@MeloraBeecroft
21 күн бұрын
Fake shutters are heinous
@rheinhartsilvento2576
16 күн бұрын
Yes. Yes, they are.
@itsmeurboi
4 күн бұрын
Boost your curb appeal 🤢fuck that
@TheLotusEater725
21 күн бұрын
Vinyl siding is to houses what chromed-plastic is to sports cars.
@davidsorensen2808
21 күн бұрын
Not really. Watch his video about ACP's. Vinyl is like the siding version of that. Even the mimicking of lap siding serves a purpose- it allows for ease of application by creating a locking system
@TrogdorBurnin8or
20 күн бұрын
@@davidsorensen2808 Lapping is a functional water-shedding strategy. If not vinyl siding, then what? The thing is that all your alternatives are more expensive or more maintenance-intensive.
@EyeMWing
19 күн бұрын
@@TrogdorBurnin8oraluminum. More expensive, kinda, but essentially maintenance free for eternity, and you aren’t stuck with that awful fake wood texture. If you can find anyone to install it.
@jeremy4148
19 күн бұрын
@@EyeMWing Funny thing, my neighbor has aluminum siding with an embossed wood grain. My vinyl siding is a smooth clapboard, no grain at all. There are choices.
@TrogdorBurnin8or
19 күн бұрын
@@EyeMWing They can wood-texture aluminum almost as easily as vinyl if they want; Or if there's a market somebody could easily sell vinyl without the texture; The texture costs little. With aluminum, it's more expensive (the huge thing), you have to paint it periodically (the big thing), and it dents easily (the small thing).
@remiheneault8208
21 күн бұрын
I didn't know shutters in the US were fake! Shutters (real ones) are still very much a thing in France. I often take the Eurostar to London and you can tell if you crossed the Channel by looking at houses, they're not as common in the UK. My previous flat didn't even have curtains, I would open and close my shutters every day, which is symbolic to me.
@disjustice
21 күн бұрын
I grew up in the US in a tiny 18th century cape house that had real shutters. The world is full of things that started out as functional but are retained now of aesthetic reasons, and it's not just the US.
@1121494
21 күн бұрын
It's not just the lack of shutters that is wrong with the windows on the island side of the channel The windows themselves with their oprimisation on minimising possible air flow are also just plain wrong. On the other hand, I find it surprising that you wouldn't figure having made the crossing from the tunnel and darkness between the both sides...
@marcdefaoite
20 күн бұрын
The downside of that is that almost all windows in French homes open inwards, often depriving a room of space.
@catsupchutney
20 күн бұрын
In Florida they are real, and don't look at all like New England style shutters.
@toomanymarys7355
20 күн бұрын
Indoor plantation shutters are real.
@susantrott3338
20 күн бұрын
You are absolutely correct. The houses built today are poorly built, cheaply built, and still sold for more money than they are worth. Since 2020, the price of houses (the same ones as 20 years ago) has quintupled. Yes 5x the price --- for no more than was being made 20 years ago. The real estate industry, both builders and resellers, have created an artificially high cost, leading to young people and old people not being able to own an appropriately sized home. Older people are stuck in their 4-5 bedroom homes because selling them won't let them afford a smaller home. Young people cannot possibly save enough to purchase a family sized house.
@hotbam37
4 күн бұрын
Can you explain the thing with the old people not being able to sell their house? I would assume it is easy to sell a larger house and then buy a smaller house. If all houses are more expensive, shouldn't the bigger house be worth much more than the smaller house? I figured they could move into a smaller house and make a profit even.
@churblefurbles
3 күн бұрын
@@hotbam37 Property tax can be lower based on when they bought the home, so downgrading can be brutal. The rest is just money printing and the consequences of irresponsible immigration policies.
@suen5006
2 күн бұрын
@@hotbam37 They could sell but there are fewer small houses. If you haven't finished paying off your house getting a new loan with high interest rates is disincentive to buy a smaller house. So its often less expensive to keep the big house with smaller payments and a better interest rate. And certain benefit programs will take your cash but you can keep your house so that's another reason you wouldn't want to sell.
@raygunsforronnie847
2 күн бұрын
@@hotbam37 It's not that old people can't sell their existing homes, they can. The problem is it will take 100% of the proceeds of the sale to purchase a new-ish, smaller home. They've traded more space for less, and lower taxes and insurance for higher. A lot of seniors can't put money into updating or upgrading, either, so they're stuck either living where and as they are, or feeding the real estate machine until the last land they buy is a cemetery plot.
@conneee2018
18 күн бұрын
the shutters not shutting have always pissed me off even as a little kid
@izikavazo
21 күн бұрын
It's a massive shame, but vinyl siding is a good choice for cladding mass-produced homes. Looks like shit, but performed very very well. If I were to describe the ideal siding material it would be a non-permeable, positively lapped, modular material that doesn't degrade in the weather, and has a vented airspace behind it. That describes commercial grade metal paneling, cement board cladding with a rain screen, and vinyl siding. In my work we warranty all types of building envelope work, and the vinyl siding does not fail (barring extreme weather). Sucks that it looks so bad and is made of the material that is destroying the world.
@pin65371
20 күн бұрын
Where I am at some of the areas that are close to the forest can not have wood or vinyl on the outside of the house. Too much of a risk of the building burning down if there is a fire.
@Dipsoid
20 күн бұрын
Vinyl siding looks bad sure, but it looks way better than the awful fake stucco EIFS siding used on most cookie cutter houses built in Florida.
@izikavazo
20 күн бұрын
@@Dipsoid Absolutely! EIFS is a nightmare up here in Canada.
@sm3675
19 күн бұрын
What about brick?
@izikavazo
19 күн бұрын
@@sm3675 Love it! The original rain screen design. But it's not common up in British Columbia. More multi-family projects are using it, so it might raise the skill pool and rate of use.
@jeremypalmer7177
21 күн бұрын
The problem is that most of the modern processes and materials used in home building are inherently not beautiful. Thus, these modern materials and processes have to be conformed to things we view as inherently beautiful.
@The_Smith
21 күн бұрын
Vinyl siding . . . gets shredded in a hailstorm, and then replaced with more . . . you guessed it! Great video Stewart.
@ShouPow
20 күн бұрын
Surprisingly to me our family's houses vinyl has survived multiple hurricanes and hailstorms. Only after hurricane Irene did we have to replace a few pieces closer to our foundation. I can believe that plastic coating a home is a dumb idea. But for our home at 20 years now I'm quite happy to see its lasted.
@paulstone3032
20 күн бұрын
@@ShouPow It really comes down to the quality, you can have good vinyl siding that lasts 20+ years and you can have vinyl siding that fails in 5. It really is a you get what you pay for.
@son_of_wasps
21 күн бұрын
Now imagine if people felt a serious and deeper connection with their homes, because they were actually involved in the process of making it. This is the promise of vernacular architecture and it's something we've lost in the past 150 years.
@matthewshultz8762
21 күн бұрын
I would love the return of custom build homes. If you buy a new home in a subdivision you can pick and choose options from the builder's catalog but your house will generally look the same as the other 50+ in the subdivision. Only way to really get a custom home now is to buy a dirt plot outright and do the whole process through a custom home builder, even involving an architect if it's really fancy. First home buyers just don't have that type of knowledge, money, or time to do that. And there's not enough land to put everyone on a new plot of land for their next house.
@everydazetuesday
21 күн бұрын
often the buyers are involved in decisions that make it worse. budgets don't allow proper use of stone veneer so the just stick it on at random. land shape or postion mean windows and balconies are used wrong fitting into an ideal vision means forcing elements that don't belong. buyers without knowledge, led by sales people without knowledge, sending demands to construction teams who don't have a voice to fix it. its about to get worse as governments panic build.
@IamNiggler
21 күн бұрын
@@matthewshultz8762I'm gay too buddy lol
@aaff2999
21 күн бұрын
The buyers often are involved, they just get carried along by the builder and told if they change anything it costs a fortune
@IamNiggler
21 күн бұрын
@@aaff2999 I'm gay too buddy
@cesarparra6025
21 күн бұрын
I will use this list as thing not to install in my future home.
@futur3gentleman802
21 күн бұрын
This is an amazing video on how not to build a modern home. I recently watched the documentary 'Blue Vinyl' about plastic siding and we are literally building ourselves plastic toy homes that we actually live in with no sense of irony.
@DrewLSsix
20 күн бұрын
It's hardly a new phenomenon, centuries ago we built in a style reminiscent of roman classical architecture, just without the native environment materials or technologies that informed that architecture, we also did it in stark whites and bare marble or stone because that's whe roman classical architecture looks like to us, not the decorated many colored reality of the era.
@vasulibhai3156
20 күн бұрын
can you link to the documentary?
@bobsteve4812
20 күн бұрын
@@DrewLSsixThe issue is all those previous style reminiscent of the past at least somewhere payed homage to the original in more than just appearance. They used high quality, long lasting material. Today these plastic toy homes only have a thin veneer of what it tries to represent. They also are far worse for the environment
@NothingXemnas
20 күн бұрын
@@DrewLSsix I also think it comes from some skepticism of anything looking more honest. Housing being wrapped in plastic is not true... anywhere else! Like, yes, homes made of brick and mortar can look "poor" and plain, but they are honest. There really isn't much to it other than paint. I have been told that it is because brick and mortar in the US is absurdly expensive, but then the issue isn't on the material, it is on the systemic issues that raise the cost of everything; poor countries still have homes made of brick and mortar. America homes sometimes sound so artificial. No paint, just wallpaper. No brick, just foam. No concrete, just wood and drywall. Nothing can get wet, so its covered with plastic sheets. Every wall, floor and ceiling is texturized with vynil and PVC. What is this absurdity?
@neurofiedyamato8763
20 күн бұрын
@@NothingXemnasAll the substitutes you mentioned can be mass manufactured remotely in some factory and delivered on site with easier installation so less manpower that's why.
@jasonpantano5852
21 күн бұрын
I would be interested in knowing more about modern designs that are not faux traditional. If a person wanted a new home with all of the comforts and efficiencies but not the fakery what would they chose? Are there any mainstream builders bucking the trend of plastic shutters, fake chimneys, and stone veneer?
@TheGahta
21 күн бұрын
Just ask them, its rarely the lack of knowledge but the willingness of the customer to pay for it
@everydazetuesday
21 күн бұрын
find a custom builder with heritage experience. ask why they choose elements that way. do not build to building code minimums.... choose the appropriate methods for your location. the right builder is the most important choice. educate yourself as best you can. you get the final say and can make or break your project.
@StephenCoorlas
21 күн бұрын
Usually comes down to budget or availability of craftsmen. A wood framed house with brick exterior is still a solid construction typology. Most savvy home buyers will pursue a brick exterior home over a vinyl siding home. Otherwise, building holistically with stone, CMU or concrete just isn’t as common in the US. 3D printed mortar homes is the next big promise of the home building industry, but it’s currently plagued with technical issues that make it not desirable.
@JMiskovsky
21 күн бұрын
brick facade is original fake@@StephenCoorlas
@ulla.umlaut
21 күн бұрын
Sometimes building techniques change in a way that it is no longer possible to effectively use some finishes. Older construction was designed without added insulation aside from sheer mass, and to effectively release moisture to prevent mold and rot. Because of the requirement for interior barriers and insulation that are not permeable by water, many exterior finishes like stucco, brick, and wood that need to "breathe" in order to effectively release moisture over the long term are very not compatible with current general building practices. You can see the exterior effects of this in action on the surface of old buildings with soft brick that has been painted with acrylic paint. The face of the brick eventually flakes off with a freeze/thaw cycle because the layer of paint (a plastic film) blocks it from releasing any infiltrated moisture. On the inside, if you wrap the outside of the walls in plastic, and then breathe and bathe inside, water vapor can't escape the way it was designed to slowly through the walls, so it condenses on windows and inside the walls, causing sometimes invisible damage over time. Continuous venting and other methods can help, but it's an ongoing and serious issue!
@StephenCoorlas
21 күн бұрын
American architecture makes our “culture” seem like an amusement park. Almost everything is a cheap, toxic, flimsy facade version of what it derived from. No integrity. The fake ornamentation is so deeply rooted in our society that we’ve even started to assign higher value to the junk over the real thing in some cases. It’s pathetic.
@WalterBurton
20 күн бұрын
That brush you're painting with there is so broad that it could only be wielded unselfconsciously by a locked-in elitist. And you think it's some sort of ... camouflage, perhaps? Or maybe it's supposed to be psychic armor? Whatever you think this attitude it, it's not.
@starventure
18 күн бұрын
What is the real thing? Do not say Europe. There is plenty to critique and blast about that place. Older American homes, is that what is real?
@fishmonger7020
18 күн бұрын
I couldn’t agree more. It’s all installed with a utility knife and tape now. Buildings all now have a cheap facade made to look like the real thing. At this point people don’t even know the difference.
@fishmonger7020
18 күн бұрын
@@starventureThere are many places with the real thing. A real material is one that isn’t trying to imitate something else with a cheap facade. I could give you a thousand examples of this in modern building. one of the problems is that homes are almost exclusively built by developers em masse. The times of single builders building a few quality homes per year are gone. We are all pushed into DR Horton trash now.
@lindahritz249
17 күн бұрын
@@starventureI’ve been in many Sears houses. Lots of real craftsmanship in those houses. Quality materials that were sent to the buyer precut. Even though many are in what today is a rough neighborhood, they are seldom modernized. But I grew up in many 1910 farmhouses that were poorly built.
@scottymcm
21 күн бұрын
I find the shutter piece both interesting and sad as the function that real shutters provide could potentially help with today's changing climate and a builder's poor window placement in a suburb.
@sethdavis4382
21 күн бұрын
As I have gotten older and become a home owner, I've noticed my priorities have changed in what I strive for with my home. I'm less concerned with how it looks and care more about how it will perform, its efficency and usefulness. I see homes with steep pitched roofs and think about how hard they are to replace. I see beautiful landscapping with lots of ornimental objects decorating a yard and think about how hard it will be to run a lawnmower and weed trimmer around each object. I think it would be neat to see a video on what the most efficient, long lasting and easy to build home would look like.
@pietervoogt
21 күн бұрын
For me it is just the opposite. When I was young I just needed a dry and warm place. When I got older I started to appreciate the unnecessary beauty of architecture. Beauty, freedom, play, fun, it is all about going beyond the necessary.
@christopherzehnder
21 күн бұрын
Live in a sea container sited on a paved parking lot. Zero maintenance or soul.
@sethdavis4382
21 күн бұрын
@@christopherzehnder Touché, my comment was under the assumption of wanting to have some standard ammenties in life. When looking at a home I now consider 2 bathrooms and a garage to be must have items. Exploring what features people would now consider escential would make for Interesting side topics within such a video I asked for.
@sethdavis4382
21 күн бұрын
The thing that prompted my comment were the details he provided on siding. My previous home had that plastic siding like what was shown. I had to pressure wash that siding annually to keep the mold off of it and there were several places that the siding became brittle from the direct sunlight and it had to be replaced. I now have a brick home and my brick home's exterior is mantenance free and insulates better from the weather. I wouldn't trade my brick for anything.
@disjustice
21 күн бұрын
Steep roofs definitely serve a purpose if you are in an area that gets a lot of snow. If you've ever had to deal with ice dams, you appreciate a nice steep roof. As far as yards go. I'm working on killing all my grass, so no need to worry about maneuvering a mower around. Just native plants and raised bed gardens.
@WalterBurton
20 күн бұрын
I'm struggling to find a thesis here.
@Twangaming
20 күн бұрын
Your house is dog shit
@jasonfischer8946
13 күн бұрын
I thought it was just me.
@road2stamfordbridge
6 күн бұрын
@@jasonfischer8946that makes three of us.
@ellusivegman
4 күн бұрын
Is it not obvious?
@KitwiSauce
4 күн бұрын
2:17-2:34
@skybirdprojects5489
20 күн бұрын
It's hard to justify hating these things when it's what is affordable to it's occupants.
@grayrabbit2211
20 күн бұрын
Not just homes. So many "luxury" cars have silver plastic everywhere rather than real metal. That's part of the reason I had a custom car built for me. In my car, if it looks like metal, it's metal. If it looks like glass, it's glass. Others may be satisfied with fakery, but I'm not.
@jimmynuetronrblx8628
18 күн бұрын
Because real chrome is a hella toxic process, and it rusts and stuff too.
@IlIlllIllIlIIIll
21 күн бұрын
The size of that road is absolutely absurd.
@Mojo_3.14
20 күн бұрын
In the USA the towns are built for cars, not people
@jl8858
19 күн бұрын
We call them "stroads" and they are terrible
@High-Tech-Geek
20 күн бұрын
The problem is if you remove these decorative items, you end up with the bland boxes punched with window holes that are peppering our suburbs as cheap apartment complexes. No character whatsoever. Depressing. Prison-like. These elements provide nostalgia, joy, comfort, playfulness, etc.
@KriminalKrampus
20 күн бұрын
Funnily enough, I feel exactly the opposite. All I can see is how fake and vain it all is. I think it'd be better if we took pride in our new materials and construction abilities and showed them off for what they are instead of shamefully pretending we never left the 20th century.
@WobblyBits_X
20 күн бұрын
These just make them look like plastic doll houses instead though. The siding and false stonework (provided it's made with stone and not molded plastic) is fine, but the rest is just tacky. I've never seen a false fireplace that looked good and, unless it's actually burning gas, it isn't as satisfying without the direct heat source.
@crytocc
20 күн бұрын
What gets me is that they don't *need* to be decorative items. Shutters are still useful today, in many places arguably more so than in the past, due to climate change! But instead of building shutters that actually work, people build imitations that just _look_ like shutters and provide none of the functionality...
@Nuclearbones
20 күн бұрын
And people still have record high depression rates and suicides in suburbs. It's like putting makeup on a pig.
@DavidCruickshank
20 күн бұрын
So let's make homes that actually look good instead of creating an IRL barbies dream house.
@Pmckean4115
21 күн бұрын
I call these "Cul-de-sac", or "Code minimum" homes. There's a real of problem in the single family home industry where almost every new product is cheaper and faster, not better. Clients ask me why we need to spend $400/sf for construction, while they see new homes for sale for $200/sf INCLUDING the property. The banks also have a hard time discerning quality creating more issues for clients.
@fishmonger7020
18 күн бұрын
Agreed. People, especially bank people, have no idea what they’re looking at. Both the real thing and the plastic facade look the same when the house is turned over but the reality is that these plastic houses deteriorate and break down faster. They also suck the soul out of wherever they sit.
@raddadchris
20 күн бұрын
Maybe I missed it, but what solution is this video pointing to, what's the argument? Sure I get features that are natural and not just decoration are the way to go, but what then? Live in modern homes free from any ornamentation that is not functional? Only build houses with traditional building materials that are purely functional? Build modern homes with no ornamentation made to look traditional?
@mrmaniac3
21 күн бұрын
I have a wooden ruler with marketing on it of a window framing company that probably stopped existing before the space race (David Lupton's Sons Company) and I found catalogs of their products on the Internet Archive. They made window casings for industry and residential use. They made those lite & muntin window frames. I love seeing these on old buildings but whenever they're imitated now, it looks tacky, especially where the genuine article is broken and replaced with the new product. It's usually plastic strips glued onto the outside pane.
@ChristianBehnke
21 күн бұрын
There's a house in my neighbourhood that has those fake stick-on muntins, and the adhesive has failed so you can see the dividers drooping. It looks terrible!
@mrmaniac3
20 күн бұрын
@@ChristianBehnke I have some on my bedroom window 😭😂 they don't droop at the very least
@ChristianBehnke
20 күн бұрын
@@mrmaniac3 I have real ones in the windows of our home, no drooping there either. Like most things in life, YMMV. 😉
@andersonic
20 күн бұрын
Now I'm curious if there are any successful home designs that DON'T imitate the comforting features of obsolete building techniques. It's sort of crazy how long we've had fireplaces.
@fresholiveoil6490
5 күн бұрын
What they're imitating isn't obsolete. It works, and people know it works. That's why it's being imitated. Nobody LARPS as a loser.
@Quantum_Nebula
21 күн бұрын
So not only are newly built homes ridiculously expensive, but also fake. Grandma bought her house for $18,000 and was sturdier
@pvanukoff
20 күн бұрын
Welcome to modern capitalism.
@pin65371
20 күн бұрын
@pvanukoff the capitalists will build as many homes as they can sell. It's mostly the city council that slow things down and drive up the cost. In Canada a bunch of cities changed their zoning bylaws to allow for more density. Then they turned around and jacked up the permitting costs so it would be unaffordable to build. The capitalists are getting pissed off because they want to build but they can't sell homes for the price that it would cost to build. The city council are all progressives that are more concerned with branding and vibes than actually doing what they were elected to do. At least where I'm at the city councilors that are "community activists" are going to get wiped out next election.
@toomanymarys7355
20 күн бұрын
@@pvanukoffyou deserve to live in a commie block
@toomanymarys7355
20 күн бұрын
It was not as well insulated, if it was at all, and had minimal mechanicals and appliances.
@JayYoung-ro3vu
19 күн бұрын
@pin65371 You broadly classify people. Only a small but vicsl secymtionnif the Orogressives are creating the vibes and status. Many others are trying to be equitable with people. The construction industry had yet to recover from the 2008-2011 economic downturn, i.e., "Geat Mortgage Crisis." Many homebuilders ceased as funding became harder. Financial institutions 'lost their shirts' after approving substandard lenders for mortgages. Yes, we tax psyers had to bail out the "too big to fail banks". Smaller banks and credit unions were sold to larger institutions. What we see is the culmination of a series if events. "Progressives" aren't THE problem as they are a part of the problem just as "Conservatives" aren't THE problem but a part of it.
@gwapod9885
13 күн бұрын
Thank goodness for modern building techniques and materials. From someone who has lived in old houses built over 100 years ago, I can say, modern houses are 1000% more comfortable, cost affective, look better, more efficient, and way way way easier to maintain.
@vladeckk21
21 күн бұрын
Fakery is kind of a time honored tradition in building (old west facades, doors painted to look like mahogany, etc) but vinyl troubles me because my understanding is that it doesn't have a great lifespan. Even a fake feature should be built to last in a home.
@Croz89
20 күн бұрын
Fakery can be seen in 300 year old manor houses in the UK. Rich people would design houses to look like medieval castles with crenellated roof lines and turrets, despite the fact they served no defensive purpose.
@chsi5420
20 күн бұрын
Most of the post-modern design language used in everything from houses to cars are disingenuous in nature, and feel like an insult to the observer. They basically say, "You're too dumb to know what real quality looks like." Well some of us do, and we hate it.
@joewheelmonger6887
19 күн бұрын
People like the look of older construction materials and methods, but don't want to pay for that kind of craftsmanship and they also don't want to pay for the regular maintenance and upkeep that these materials require. This is just the homebuilding industry responding to market demands. No one is being ripped off or lied to. You can still have all that old school stuff, but it's gonna cost a lot more to build and maintain.
@Imbatmn57
21 күн бұрын
Ill never understand how someone can spend so much on a house that is most likely cheaply made, and the insulation most likely dangerous. At least when you buy a "used" house thats been standing for 80 years, its less likely to fall down around your ears. Theres even people that build a brand new house only for the neighbors house being built so close that you see into their window from your balcony. A house in an already built neighborhood has already drawn boundaries so you can see the boundary a newly built house would have to build in. My house isnt cookie cutter and im not part of an HOA so i can paint it however i want.
@Shako_Lamb
20 күн бұрын
Even though it was a brief mention during the ad read, I'm glad you mentioned the environmental impact of vinyl. America's overuse of vinyl building materials is HORRENDOUS for the environment. Vinyl is very polluting to manufacture, and it isn't economical to recycle, so it ends up in landfills. Vinyl siding and windows exposed to the sun begin to oxidize after a few years and turn into a powder, and on top of leaving the vinyl brittle and failure-prone, I don't even think the environmental consequences of the powder are being studied yet! Vinyl windows thermally expand and warp so much that they lose efficiency and mechanically fail in only a matter of a decade or two. It's hard to find a better choice for the environment than good old wood, and we absolutely need to be bringing real wood back into the mainstream.
@christopherstephenjenksbsg4944
21 күн бұрын
I grew up in a brick Greek Revival house in NYC, built in 1831. The house certainly had its quirks, and it was unusual for Manhattan in that it was free-standing, so we had windows on the sides of the house, which most NYC houses of the period did not. The interior had been altered quite a bit, with a kitchen addition along with bathrooms, servants' rooms in the attic (since converted into a separate apartment), indoor plumbing, etc, but enough of the original interior detail and even some furniture remained to get that 19th century sense of dignity and proportion. Our dining room table was Swiss modern surrounded by Empire-style gondola chairs. It worked! Because of this, I developed a love of old buildings that remains with me to this day, over 60 years later. For the same reason, I strongly dislike typical American suburban houses, such as those you show in the video, with their fake clapboards or half-timbering, faux-stone finishes, shutters that don't shutter, etc. The old-school modernist architects had it right, in this respect. Let buildings be what they're going to be. Let the materials appear to be what they are. Include traditional forms and materials if they function as they always have. Pitched roofs are still good for shedding snow and rain water. Working window shutters still help keep the interior cool and private, even if you have air conditioning. But don't be afraid to be frankly modern either. I love Frank Lloyd Wright's Usonian houses of the 1930s-50s. They still look modern to this day, and they are well-suited to modern lifestyles (except their kitchen are a bit pokey). In other words, it's possible to be traditional and adventurous. We don't have to settle for "little [or not-so-little] boxes on a hillside made with ticky-tacky."
@rwatertree
19 күн бұрын
Imagine living in a plastic box with a wood frame that looks like a plastic box with a wood frame.
@__ASAAA
20 күн бұрын
biggest lie from the home building industry and construction industry in general is how much corners are cut on many projects. our roofing crew has showed up to homes that dident have good attic ventilation and then we have to replace the plywood because its rotted. a few times we have almost gotten hurt do to shitty framing or plywood that was straight up not nailed down and i once recall finding extra shingles left under the outer layer when we were tearing up a roof probably because the previous crew dident feel like getting rid of them properly. the worst part is that lots of this shit happens on new build houses, especially the shitty frame work. when a home is built well by people who dont cut corners it will last a lifetime regardless of the esthetic design. unfortunately this is not the case for the majority of homes made today because no one is holding the builders accountable.
@willbass2869
18 күн бұрын
No speaky ingleeesh
@Croz89
20 күн бұрын
Round here you get housing built with fake sandstone, which are just sand colored bricks made in a textured mould. They do it to try and match the older buildings made of real sandstone, but the difference is obvious, the real deal is far more varied in shape and colour. With all that said, I don't necessarily think this kind of fakery is bad. If it makes a home look nicer (and I think it often does) without breaking the bank or being a maintenance headache then it's worth it. It would be nicer if there was a little more variety in design and layout, but I'd pick one of those over a modernist concrete box any day. We can't house everyone in quaint and charming historic buildings.
@jimmynuetronrblx8628
18 күн бұрын
Agreed. It seems like if a house is not some historic fancy building, it’s not good enough for them.
@thurlravenscroft2572
18 күн бұрын
The siding that you showed at first was clapboard siding, albeit made out of cement and wood fiber, but it lasts well and holds paint far longer and better than wood siding.
@Josh-yr7gd
19 күн бұрын
I wish newer homes actually had walk up attics. Most of them just have pitched roofs for looks which can't be converted to liveable and/or useable space.
@Jmatt354
3 күн бұрын
Florida construction worker here the difference is 500,000 For the superficial or million 1/2 if you want the real brick and stone
@ItsAllPainNoGain
17 күн бұрын
You wouldn't believe the amount of fake attics I've built. Adding a small pitched roof with a window that can never be accessed from within the house is stupid. In fact I got a call to go build one tomorrow. Its idiotic
@yanamorim5747
21 күн бұрын
american houses are insane
@Thim22Z7
21 күн бұрын
This video, to me at least, drives home how differently we build here in The Netherlands/Europe These "average" American houses would be so out of place here
@MtJochem
21 күн бұрын
@@Thim22Z7 I would love an European version of this. While it is true that we have a lot of old houses still standing - maybe less so in the Netherlands, but very true in France for example - current building practices aren't much less 'fake'. Rows of houses that look like one big house, brick facades that don't serve any structural purpose in high-rises.
@azertyfun5297
21 күн бұрын
@@MtJochem American homes are kind of a concentrate of the fake building practices we see popping up in recent construction. However it's nowhere near as bad here, even though things obviously haven't been progressing in the "right direction". For instance fake wood/bricks/stone PVC hasn't really become popular siding. You'd be more likely to find real-but-not-structural siding in my experience (i.e. real bricks/stone laid on top of insulation on top of concrete). Or if going cheap then the ol' reliable crépis/plaster, but that's just a perfectly sensible modern solution that doesn't pretend to be something it isn't. Here in Belgium Eternit tiles and their non-asbestos-y equivalents were also ubiquitous on cheap housing until recently, and those don't really try to look like an antique building method either. Anyways new houses must be insulated so you can't get exposed structural bricks/stone and I would certainly prefer a brick siding to a PVC siding... Roller shutters have been the norm forever where I live so fake shutters are unheard of, new houses either have roller shutters or no shutters at all (which is really dumb on a south-facing facade, even if you have A/C that's just so energy inefficient). Broadly I'd say we kind of have the opposite problem to Americans... the default new detached house is often a featureless white/gray cube with gray windows. Which is a shame when timber frames and bricks siding isn't so much more expensive (when compared to all the other costs) but unfortunately with current housing prices corners are being cut everywhere.
@dsmbilly3690
21 күн бұрын
They are built for very high fire standards and to be quick and cheap to repair. House fires caused by the same reasons as other countries are very low as electrical standards reduce the odds of electrical fires to practially nothing and the materials are mostly fire resistant. There is a lot of survivorship bias for older buildings and people forget about when the entire town burned to the ground 3 or 4 times before they got it right for the conditions. A lot of highly durable building materials don't work across a lot of the US like brick. Brick basically can't withstand even minor earthquakes but wooden structures built from wood to modern earthquake standards are practially immune to the shaking and would require ground seperation to be damaged at all.
@Croz89
20 күн бұрын
@@MtJochemI agree, Europe has its fair share of generic identikit suburbs.
@michaeljuers574
19 күн бұрын
I was a builder for 42 years and every home I built was designed by an architect (such as yourself). You guys are the ones who specified all these fake elements to compliment your designs. We got vinyl and aluminum siding because homeowners got sick of having to paint their house every five years or the old wood siding was rotting away. New products like LP Smartside or fiber cement offer reasonable alternatives if architects still insist on clapboard siding. None of those things remotely affect the structural integrity of a modern well build house. I’ve remodeled countless older homes with sagging roofs, poor insulation, leaky windows and crumbling foundations. None of the things you mention are lies. Many of these choices are consumer driven. How about you guys send us better designs with better material choices.
@mabybee
18 күн бұрын
What an eccentric, cranky “nuh uh, you” response. Do you think he’s faulting home builders or even insinuating any of those things are innately wrong?
@jerryglasses2229
18 күн бұрын
@@mabybeeThe title of the video clearly says it all
@jerryglasses2229
18 күн бұрын
Amen. I thought the vid was going to make a point or give some onsite. Instead it was just how people decorate their houses which we've been doing forever. People love to romanticize old homes but forget about lead, asbestos, electric that can't charge an iPhone, poor insulation, basements that are swamps. The list is never ending.
@michaeljuers574
17 күн бұрын
@@mabybeeYes!! The title speaks for itself.
@jerrywood4508
20 күн бұрын
My favorite examples of shutters was a house in my neighborhood that was built in a contemporary style and featured a number of shallow horizontal strip windows, probably in bedroom to provide a window above a bed. Someone decided to make the house look more traditional by adding shutters at both ends. Thus the house displayed four foot wide windows with tiny shutters.
@marcusrowan7212
20 күн бұрын
I... Don't see what the issue is? Yeah, it's largely purely decorative. ...ergo "fake"? Meh
@jimmynuetronrblx8628
18 күн бұрын
Agreed. Like dam, let people have some shutters. I don’t see the big deal with fake shutters. They make the window look good, and maybe they don’t need actual shutters
@barryrobbins7694
21 күн бұрын
Americans are constantly moving. The “American Dream” is always the next move away.
@starventure
18 күн бұрын
That is one of the major differences between the US and Europe. Change of address is nowhere near as common in Europe as it is in the US, which is actually a good thing. Population mobility is important for an economy to respond to change over time, and in spite of the the bad practices involved(moving industry), the US is more flexible than elsewhere.
@barryrobbins7694
18 күн бұрын
@@starventure Social stability also is good for the economy. When a population moves a lot, it makes it more difficult to form a sense of community. It moves people away from social support networks (family and friends especially). Moves can be particularly difficult for children. The less money one has, the more of a financial burden a move is (moves don’t necessarily mean a significant jump in salary).
@Dante_The_Great
21 күн бұрын
I've been living in my 140 y/o house for two years now and I already feel a connection to it. I just feel like it has a soul.
@DavS827
3 күн бұрын
Maybe do an opposite video essay: what is the most authentic well-built house for a particular region?
@robertkoreis
20 күн бұрын
Faking quality is how so many homes were and are being built post-WWII. A development might look nice initially but elements like vinyl siding quickly degrade and look terrible. For a short period I lived in a development where the siding on many of the houses was warping. Hardiplank might be more expensive initially, but it's a far superior material on many levels.
@AgentOrange96
21 күн бұрын
I grew up in a 200 year old house. I now own a 30 year old house, and I've definitely noticed a lot of these fakeries. But I've also kinda embraced them. I replaced the aluminum windows (that actually did have a real grid of smaller glass sheets, but purely for aesthetics) with vinyl windows, but I kept the now totally fake grids for them for example. I've painted countless real shutters growing up. The shutters on my house are way too small for the windows at all. But you know they're staying! It's silly, but it's just kinda fun TBH.
@astrinymris9953
6 күн бұрын
It should be noted that the people who can afford these kinds of home are very privileged. Most Americans have to take what's available and affordable.
@Tryinglittleleg
13 күн бұрын
God forbid people dislike modernism and still appreciate the beauty of form.
@Lifes2short2hurry
16 күн бұрын
As a home inspector who's also interested in architecture and ecology, I have basically muttered the text of this video to myself hundreds of times!
@TheMonkdad
18 күн бұрын
I built 2 of my homes nearly entirely by myself. I despise vinyl siding but have vinyl siding. The one thing I hate more is painting. Wood or even fiber-cement siding needs to be repainted every 5-10 years at a cost of many thousands of dollars. It’s a compromise. It’s so tempting to go over the top when building a home but after living in my home for 20 years I have some regrets but vinyl siding isn’t one. If it was I could easily change it to clapboards.
@mudden
7 сағат бұрын
Never in my life I would think people would want to live in a plastic house. I had no idea this even existed. Either you build a house from wood, or from stone. Not plastic....🤯 What an absolutely terrible material choice.
@matthewshultz8762
21 күн бұрын
Hear me out, instead of needing to buy cheap siding, we move the houses closer together to share a sound and fire proof demising wall to cut the amount of siding required in half!
@roninnder
21 күн бұрын
My man invented the townhome, which sucks compared to the freestanding house
@matthewshultz8762
21 күн бұрын
@@roninnder If it's 250k to buy a townhome vs 300k for a house, i think there's a good market for people that don't want a huge lawn, and would like to save 50k
@metetong2065
21 күн бұрын
Or even go for a small but well made 10 flat building and make a massive community garden
@_suspi
21 күн бұрын
Go big or go home. Let's glue all the buildings together and make a modern Kowloon Walled City.
@martinlutz5446
21 күн бұрын
So what's the argument here? Abandon decorative features that provide psychological comfort to people because they're not "honest"? As a German, like 80% of houses built here have nearly no decorative features compared to American ones. Usually, it's just 4 walls, a roof and some plaster for a facade - form follows function. If you ask Germans, they will often mock American houses for being flimsy and poorly built, but most people very much appreciate the amount of decorative details on and in American homes - Americans know how to make a house a home. We build our houses differently because of trends too, Bauhaus has been very popular for the last 15 years, but also because decoration is very expensive without providing any functionality and so people opt to skip that cost because building a house is expensive as it is. Some, very few people, decide to buy an American style house anyway from one of the handful of companies in existence here, that provide this style. And let me tell you - these homes stand out like a rose on the grey in our suburbs! Form doesn't always have to follow function, because then you lose the beauty.
@jimmynuetronrblx8628
18 күн бұрын
Exactly. It’s your house. Why can’t I have shutters that don’t close. Because it’s not “real”? Would you rather have no decoration at all? Who are you to decide?
@starventure
18 күн бұрын
I have seen Germans react in horror to American HGTV shows, not simply because of the kind of construction but because of the whole notion of "making a house your own" as in remodeling.
@Rocketsong
16 күн бұрын
Fake shutters was a big thing in the 50s, 60's, and 70's. I'm seeing a lot of home flippers remove the shutters to make a house look more "modern". Which makes the house look sterile and worse IMO.
@nakoda1610
20 күн бұрын
this video let me think.. how are american homes so expensive, while being so weak (mostly wood) while european homes arent really that much more expensive, while being almost exclusively brick
@TessHKM
19 күн бұрын
Supply + demand
@starventure
18 күн бұрын
Brick home = no remodeling. Big no-no in the US. That and brick is weak when it comes to tremors, while wood can flex and give the occupants a fighting chance.
@JonMartinYXD
18 күн бұрын
Ooh, do a video on interior fakery. Almost all 'granite' countertops being installed are actually a crushed rock, glitter, and coloured resin composite called Bretonstone.
@RichardPetron
20 күн бұрын
This video is kind of a microcosm of why I find this creators videos to be so strange and difficult to watch despite their high production value. He starts off by saying there are lies being told by home builders when what he meant was that we are using fake materials to replicate expensive wood - the world's most obvious thing. It is several minutes in before I realize this isn't even about home builders as a business at all, and then 2/3 of the way thru we are rambling for a solid minute about how "attics are the spiritual oppisite of basements" and then making reinforcing allegories about their relative weights and the types of things you store there? Literally why do I care about any of this? Who is this written for?
@Ryan-093
18 күн бұрын
the channel focuses a lot on design principles and philosophy. the field of design language isn't for everyone
@jalconque
16 күн бұрын
That was literally, my thought too as well. The clickbait title, the unnecessary exaggerated language... It's not though modern builders are lying to folks about faux and other non functional features. We know they merely mimic the old features which are prohibitively expensive. As for the idea it's about design principles and philosophy... @Ryan-093 said so.... give me a break...the design principles incorporated into the houses do not affect their aesthetic or viability especially since people design according to their tastes. I genuinely wonder what the point of this video is, but it's the way of social media isn't it? Make a controversial video about the most mundane thing and watch the engagement in the comments section and watch those as dollars come rolling in
@Espen.Johannesen
21 күн бұрын
Northern european here. Can someone tell me why the chimney is OUTSIDE THE HOUSE ?? A chimney inside the building releases heat to every floor. 5:18. this is just a waste of energy.
@thet0xicfish
20 күн бұрын
They're never used for heating, like ever. Just a cozy decoration. Central heating has been the main way of doing things in almost all US homes for well over 100 years afaik
@thet0xicfish
20 күн бұрын
Also people rarely use them lol
@Tindog81476
19 күн бұрын
It depends a lot of old homes actually have the chimney through the middle of the house I lived in a 1920s house for a while and it's chimney went through the middle. The chimney on the side is often because it imitates colonial style, the chimney was on the side because that was the fireplace used for cooking. During the summer you didn't want the heat from cooking in the house. So there often one in the middle for heating the home and one on the side for cooking food. However, since kitchens now are often the meeting place of homes, the kitchen/living room fireplace is what most people think of. Kitchens in the past were considered gross and pushed to the outside of homes, while as now they are more in the main space.
@willbass2869
18 күн бұрын
Houses in maritime western Europe very often have a gable end fireplace and chimney. But the farther east into Continental Europe/Russia or into Scandinavia the fireplace moves to center of home. Simple adaptations to the need for winter heat. Ireland, Wales,southern England and Atlantic France just don't have the long intense cold like someone in Slovakia or central Sweden. Earliest European settlers to America simply brought over the style of building they were used to. They were overwhelmingly from British Isles.
@lisacole690
2 күн бұрын
We’re finishing building our own house. It’s “not too big” at 1800 sq ft and we’ve done about 80% of the labor so we could save on that cost and afford really good materials … we overbuilt and did things like used all plywood instead of osb, rockwool insulation with upper floor ceiling r-42 (adding a reflective heat barrier added even more and we designed for no attic … we did high ceilings and loft spaces within the second floor instead), real hardwood instead of lvp, James Hardie siding, heavy duty framing, etc … it makes a huge difference in how the house feels and functions. I see tons of houses going up that are built super fast and to the very minimum of code and they look like they’ll be lucky to last 15 years … starting at $500k. We need to build things to last and not be more than we need. The Not So Big House book is an excellent reference for that philosophy.
@Mario-mx1uh
21 күн бұрын
Those houses are so cheap... no wonder why there are destroyed by some little hurricanes.
@TheGahta
21 күн бұрын
Wrong order
@ShouPow
20 күн бұрын
Production built homes in most of the country (but I'll just speak for NJ) do not get destroyed by hurricane winds or precipitation. They're destroyed by trees and fires. Wood & plaster homes surely aren't masonry but they're not all built like toys. And even really cheap production homes in my area survive these storms no problem. The majority of houses in my area were built between the 70s and 90s. And then another book of new homes in the 2000s/2010s. Home insurance literally wouldn't cover homes that can't survive A hurricane. As long as you don't flood, surviving a hurricane isn't that much of an accomplishment for contemporary buildings
@SoidHoid
21 күн бұрын
This was a great discussion. As a structural engineer and a very literal person, the fake structural elements have driven me nuts. It was a good argument for the perspective of why people do it. The idea that in the past architectural were largely a reflection of the technology and needs of the time that we're not trying to fake. I wonder if we rethought that and tried to celebrate and work with our current technology what our buildings would start to look at.
@juzoli
Күн бұрын
Functionally, our houses today are much better than houses from 100 years ago and before. Also, structure and appearance are not coupled anymore. Regardless of how it is constructed, we can make it look like however we want. These 2 explains all, without using negative qualifiers like “fake” and “superficial”. These houses are good after all, and look nice. No issues with them. (This is NOT about how they cut corners to save money on flipped houses, that’s a different topic)
@michaelfay8397
18 күн бұрын
I'm in my upper 30s and now have a few home projects under my belt, above and below and around the house. I'm not an architect but I've had this realization about typical house things as well--houses aren't exactly "lying" but them and their materials aren't being authentic either and a lot of the appearance of houses is driven by what people expect houses to look like so new materials and methods mimic what came before, which is what was authentic for those earlier things. A big realization for me was that brick or stone on houses is just a veneer for the look of it rather than actually doing anything masonry walls are good for. Or that vinyl siding is just a covering to deflect water away from the particle board and house wrap. It was a weird realization that the air envelope of the house is the drywall and the insulation is beyond it, or that the attic space is open to the outdoors. I grew up in a 50s house with a flat roof and my parents always complained about it and leaks, but I absolutely hate houses and buildings that have big triangle roofs where the roof is a bigger volume than the building under it. I guess it goes back to "what is a house?" The reason vinyl siding looks the way it does is that its mimicking what Americans largely expect siding to look like. Normal residential home construction is still in the skeuomorphic phase software and phones were in in the 00s and into the 10s when they were still aiming to have the apps appear and behave like their real world predecessors. I'm in Illinois too and the 'modern Scandi-farmhouse' look that started in the later 10s seems to rub some people the wrong way but I like it because it seems like a step toward letting go of the 'tropes' of what people expect houses to look like. They seem more honest to me: no shutters, simpler shapes and volumes and rooflines, modern windows, flatter siding, modern materials.
@evanhughes3027
17 күн бұрын
Your attic theory reminded me of Chevy Chase getting stuck and having his christmas highlight as watching memories, rather than the pandemonium happening in his house.
@AtomicGoober
21 күн бұрын
We're all Barbie girls in a Barbie world Life in plastic, it's fantastic...
@glynnL
17 күн бұрын
Asphalt shingles are a similar example to vinyl siding. It’s interesting how we hold onto the “look” of items and are so resistant to any change. Another issue with these changes are that we affect the burn time and toxicity of a house fire. With so many fast to melt building materials, compared to plaster walls and wood exterior, the burn rate can be much quicker and the smoke deadlier.
@nonawolf7495
2 күн бұрын
Love the term "Structural Theater"! It's a perfect way to describe those "Tuscan Kitchens" that blighted suburban homes in the early 2000s.
@Rahshu
20 күн бұрын
This inspires a philosophical question in my head that makes me cringe with how pretentious it sounds: How to build an organic world in a world where it's functionally unnecessary?
@COPhill08
18 күн бұрын
When walking around my neighborhood I a fake ways love pointing out the hilarity of the fake "craftsmanship" found in the newer homes
@MartinPittBradley
20 күн бұрын
Saying one of the benefits was to show that the home “is under control” was a bit much
@pianoman47
20 күн бұрын
At the end of the day, it's a box that keeps the weather out.
@roccobierman4985
21 күн бұрын
Brick veneer, false columns, fake timber ceiling supports. Even fake window shutters!!! Absolutely disgusting the build quality of so many American homes.
@AgentOrange96
21 күн бұрын
On the contrary, we don't need those columns or shutters because we've advanced the quality of our materials beyond the need for them. Yes a lot of new construction is crap, but this isn't a symptom of that. This is a yearning for a connection to the traditional while doing better. I do appreciate old homes a ton. I grew up in one. But it's also important to take a reality based approach to forming our views and opinions.
@christopherzehnder
21 күн бұрын
Shutters have practical use as do columns. I’m an engineer, we use columns every day! “Space age” materials are often a marketing gambit to sell more product. Humanity has known how to build well for thousands of years.
@AgentOrange96
21 күн бұрын
@@christopherzehnder We're talking specifically about fake ones. We have energy efficient windows now that can withstand harsher weather. So real shutters aren't needed on these specific homes. Obviously real columns still exist, but if these are fake columns, they are clearly not needed. Potentially due to steel or concrete beams. Home builders have been able to build high quality homes for ages, but denying the fact that we've had advances in materials that allow us to improve our construction would be insane.
@sirBrouwer
21 күн бұрын
@@AgentOrange96 the thing is if you want just that wat is only needed in a home to do well. you will more or less build a square flat box. that is the most efficient way. if you want even more efficiency make them prefab modulair boxes.
@roccobierman4985
21 күн бұрын
@@AgentOrange96 Shutters absolutely have modern practical usage. An additional layer of insulation, protection from sun, protection from weather on the windows.
@linedegl4966
19 күн бұрын
i just want to say thank you for fostering a curiosity about architecture. it inspired me to take a course on architecture and design at my school, and i plan on hopefully one day continuing on, studying it at university.
@Docstantinople
18 күн бұрын
Don’t forget when just because you got granite countertops all of a sudden it’s a “luxury” home or apartment and now it’s way more expensive. 😂
@whyjnot420
21 сағат бұрын
I have a house in Connecticut, built in 1900 and renovated a couple of times. Once in the later 50s and again in the early 10s. Its foundation is a combo of stone, brick and concrete that reflect those time periods.
@matthew_pick
16 күн бұрын
I’d love to see a follow-up video providing alternative, functional approach to building a modern-day home (vs just pointing out “what not to do”).
@paulrharrell
14 күн бұрын
10:50 - "When a house is awake and hungry, every room is a mouth" - anatomy
@navajojohn9448
18 күн бұрын
I have not lived in wood residences in 40 years. I prefer block. One home doesn't even have interior wood/steel framing and plaster board. All block including interior walls.
@johnbeckwith8313
15 күн бұрын
Wood is still plentiful.❤ However, the environmentalist won't let you cut that tree in the forest to build your new home. Even when you plant a new tree to replace the one you cut.
@dustinabc
20 күн бұрын
9:14 I consider myself to be a very even-tempered person, but for some reason FAKE DORMERS get my blood boiling. 😆
@TomLinehan-d7d
10 күн бұрын
As they should, that much time for nothing is odserd
@Rocketsong
16 күн бұрын
I'm trying to remember the last time I saw a home with vinyl siding. Probably been years if not decades. Where I live, 99% of new construction is stucco.
@rwatertree
19 күн бұрын
This video begs for a follow up that answers two questions: 1. What does Modernist housing for the everyman look like? 2. Why didn't it catch on? Stripping away the detail provided by fake clap boards and stone appliqués would be worse than having them. An 'honest' house with cement board siding, bare windows and a flat roof would look like a small prison.
@wapartist
18 күн бұрын
So true. On my 1959 ranch I boxed out the 4” steel lollipop stick columns with 10x10’s. Immediately looks more grand but 0 structural
@GrantAmann
19 күн бұрын
Please do one one interiors…. This was such an eye opening video for someone who never learned this in my classes. Great informative video that literally will change how I look at homes.
@hufficag
18 күн бұрын
I live in a Tudor style house in China, and in a Mediterranean Spanish style with pink and orange stucco. I like the simple Canadian 1960s cinderblock painted with thick oil paint construction. Those aluminum windows last over 100 years. Nothing is hidden.
@vdjKryptosRock
18 күн бұрын
This is why I did my new house’s exterior in just Flex Seal. It shows a level of practicality and strength.
@willbass2869
18 күн бұрын
Lol
@Starbelt
21 күн бұрын
The American Dream: appearing sturdy and long lasting while being deceptively cheap and and useless and false.
@KRGRTV
21 күн бұрын
"They call it the American Dream because you have to be asleep to believe it!" -George Carlin
@PeaceMotherLover
Күн бұрын
Has this man ever showed where he lives? I’d love to hear him explain what he loves about his home. Assuming he loves his home.
@tmcelhe1
17 күн бұрын
On a similar topic, in landscape architecture history we learn that buildings were built to resemble Ancient Greek or Roman ruins. Capability Brown did this at Stowe, to paint a picturesque scene from Ancient Rome on the English landscape. Central Park and Prospect Park, by Olmsted and Vaux, were entirely fabricated to create the “illusion” of nature and the picturesque. For example, the ramble was designed to make one experience as if they were in the Adirondacks. Landscape architecture creates naturalistic illusions all the time, to such an extent that it creates a simplistic view of what “nature” is (often just lawn and trees, with a few shrubs). Some exceptions might include more recent post-industrial works by Julie Bargmann, Latz and Partners Landschaftspark Duisburg-Nord, or Bagel Garden by Martha Schwartz. Would love to see a video discussing these ideas as related to landscape architecture.
@Zenas521
21 күн бұрын
When you said "this will be our model", I thought of the Teapot Apple nuclear test explosion.
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