To be honest, I couldn’t care less what the inside of someone else’s house looks like. I like granite and two-story family rooms ... and I don’t have a fundamental problem with the “McMansion”.
The trend that really has to go is overfinancing a house you can’t afford ... 30-year financing, with features you can’t afford, an adjustable interest rate, and a balloon payment nobody can afford.
Buy within your means. Pay it off fast. Features and decorating should be to your taste.
SnakeDoc
Thanks for the post...When everyone has it, you know the trend has peaked. Maybe strapless wedding gowns that all look alike will be the next thing to go.
quartz countertops for me
The decade isn’t over yet.
I really dislike that whole ‘open space’ idea where the kitchen, dining ‘area’, living room all blur together.
It is really stupid, it’s like your sink is in the living room. Too dumb.
I was thinking of sealed industrial concrete. You can color it too. Me being a Contractor I could save a lot of dough. Speaking of dough, concrete stays cool like other stone counter tops. Sealed correctly no staining either.
I still like high ceilings.
To which my wife says, "They'll take my granite when they pry it from my cold, dead oven mitt!" I have to admit I like it too. We put it in nearly 10 years ago and haven't regretted it once. We were admiring the convenience of it over the holidays as we could take the turkey right out of the oven and stick it on the counter.
I’d like to add formal dining rooms. We rarely use ours. The dinette is our main eating area.
Center island in Kitchen get rid of it. How about a nice kitchen table where the family sits down and eats dinner and maybe after it is cleaned up the kids begin their homework on the kitchen table.
The shades of red and gold as a color scheme. It’s hung on for WAY too long. I don’t want a red and gold house, thank you very much. I’ve put off buying living room furniture for 6 years, because I can’t get the colors I want. It’s all that red and gold cr@p. My living room sits unfinished. I’ll finish it when they start doing fabric in a color scheme I’m willing to live with.
The butler’s pantry off the main bedroom suite.
Aw come on. How pretentious is that?
The McMansions in our area have this feature and not one of the homes has a butler working there.
1. Reading the Star Tribune
I now have granite.
But they can have my Billy Bigmouth talking bass when they pry it from my cold dead hands.
Why can’t walls be made of something other than fragile, delicate sheetrock. You hit it with a piece of furniture, a door, and you get a hole. Try to get your kids and their spaghetti hands from the table to the bathroom to wash without touching the walls. Spaghetti stains white paint and you can’t wash it off, the paint comes off instead but a pale pink shadow remains. Try to find matching paint for touch ups. You can’t paint over sharpie writing.
Nope sorry. It is cheaper to build a 2 story home than it is to have the same SF on a asingle floor. I use my kitchen and will have commercial stainess steel appliances and probably the faux grante that is made from an eboxy and grantine scraps, it is more durable than real granite.