“There’s a neighborhood near us with a few Lloyd Wright designed homes. For the most part, even though the designs are interesting, they’ve been allowed to deteriorate and the whole neighborhood is pretty shabby.”
Those houses were built when I was a child, so I had friends who lived in them and I have been in quite a few. Even though we knew there was something “important” and “expensive” about them, (what do 8-10 year olds know about architecture ) as kids we always considered them “weird”. I don’t recall ever feeling “cozy” in any of them. That said, I’m sorry they are now “shabby”.
Hope I didn’t offend. Upkeep on such homes, is probably more difficult and expensive than in conventional wood frame construction. And I can see where “cozy” wasn’t anything Wright considered. That neighborhood remains something of a local attraction because of the homes.