Oh well.
My son just moved his little family into a Lowder Homes ‘cookie cutter’ model. Pretty darn nice cookies that! The floorplans are limited but the amenities are still flowing to keep people buying.
How about this cookie cutter election? Here’s your stainless steel liberal war hero. Here’s your stainless steel New England liberal. Or there’s always the stainless steel Southern Baptist preacher to choose from. We used to offer an upgraded less leaky conservative choice, but the race cost too much, so we had to limit your options in order to speed things along.
Most of the real Ranches I've been to originally had a two story farm house.
I designed my "plantation style" dream home and had it blueprinted with the help of a $12 per hour retired architect, and had it built cost-plus for 10% over my contractor's actual labor and material costs. The workmanship was great and, even though I am "anal" about quality, the answer to every improvement suggestion I had was "your the boss!" After having such a wonderful experience and being treated with so much respect I am glad I didn't try to go fixed-bid with my builder and fight over every cent of extra labor and material upgrades. I also got a steal of a Jumbo mortgage the likes of which I'll never know how I got approved for and is now most likely going to be against the law. Even though I was broke and had poor credit I ended up in my personal mansion with no money in it and no PIP to pay and just teaser rates on my first and second mortgages. I had even been offered the opportunity to go to 125% of the value of my home on my second mortgage which I should have done, but I only went to 100%.
God must have wanted me in my dream home, because the banks papered over all my lack of resources in a frenzy to get my jumbo note on their books. Even I thought it was fishy that a zero net worth guy who could barely pay his minimum credit card payments could have a mansion built with no PIP, a temporary down payment, and get hints on where and how to borrow his earnest money for a couple of months and where to get a no questions asked interest only second mortgage. It is funny that at the time I thought I was one of a very few people getting away with this kind of a deal, and now it turns out it was happening all over the nation like an algae bloom. Anyhow, the good news is I love my opulent abode and take great pleasure living in its classical grandeur while I remain here by the skin of my teeth working towards the day when my money tree will bear its first crop. I'd love to post a picture of my home, but I try to remain somewhat anonymous in hopes the things I post here won't as easily find their way back to me and make me rue the day I ever shared the 'bile' that is my Right Wing Extremist opinion.
Too many of those McMansions going up around here. You know, like McD’s hamburgers, all the same, bland thing wrapped up in the same boring wrapper. It seems like they copy the same three houses in the same ol’ beige, tan or sand siding. All cut out of the same cloth, and that’s just the outside!
My 1903 Gothic farmhouse is more interesting than those cookie cutters any day. Plus the construction is better and this house will probably be standing long after those other ones have started crumbling.
The idea of mass produced, affordable private homes for ordinary people has always filled the Intelligencia with anger and disgust. I don’t know why.
That started my thinking about cars in the 1980s. The Accord was available in six flavors. Buick had a model that had 32,768 available variations.
For manufacturing and inventory purposes, what would you rather have to deal with? Take a look at the stock prices.
Not that I'm saying a homebuilder should only offer kitchen counter tops and cabinets in Harvest Gold or Avocado...
Probably the most successful prefab houses, however, were the Sears bungalows. The NW and SW sides of Chicago are almost completely dominated by these classics.
We’ve had cookie cutter homes since Levittown after World War II. I hate those kinds of houses.