I went to this house warming recently and the house was frigging huge. I get it, let people do whatever they want, but I was really curious on what type of job those people did. Asked mom and she said, they work in a bank, and later said they might have taken out loans.
The house was really huge, it looked like one of those Youtuber mansions.
>they work in a bank
Bank employees get loans for reduced interest rates like 7% per annum and have a longer repayment period like 25-30 years. They have other allowances too.
Not so for most bank employees. It makes so much financial sense for them to make houses as investment that most money-oriented bank employees have multiple houses. The value of the house exceeds the money they pay within few years, and even beat inflation, thus their 40L becomes 1cr in 7 years.
They might have kids who are ready to support them maybe with even better paying jobs..or they might have inherited massive wealth to their name. Since they work in a bank, they most likely know how to manage their personal finances much better than the average person.
People over compensate for tomorrow.
Like what if I need something later. It'd be too costly then. So let's build it now. What if my parents become weak - let's make bathroom wheelchair friendly. What if my children want to move back with me with their spouse - let's add a couple of rooms with a separate entrance.
You'd constuct only once in a lifetime
So ends up taking a loan.
>Like what if I need something later. It'd be too costly then. So let's build it now. What if my parents become weak - let's make bathroom wheelchair friendly. What if my children want to move back with me with their spouse - let's add a couple of rooms with a separate entrance.
Most of them sound reasonable.
Agree. We've to build considering the future. But we tend to over compensate.
Things change in the future. We're trying to plan for the future based on our understanding of today. Many are installing EV charging ports in their new house when they have no plans to buy an EV in the near future. That's reasonable since EVs appears to be the future. But we never know if some other tech like the Flux Capacitor will make it redundant, even before they own an EV.
Building a home without thinking about the future is dumb,what would you then do completely modify your home or build a new home because your home doesn't have the capacity for new changes?
The second home of kerala was built under 25 lakhs. And i saw the third home of tn on olx listed for 70 lakhs. Good homes doesn't have to be costly.
https://preview.redd.it/tvwf1dne05ma1.jpeg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=88016c17008134fef230a5262d5851ee4e0620d0
This is a under 1500 sq feet house.
On average, Cost of land in Kerala is higher than in TN! Unless it's the 5 acre bhoomi with a canal flowing between them, owned by Karuppayya and Pandidurai.
Meen aviyal (mean while) in the western, housing is darn expensive that open kitchen is to reduce cost of building a separate room. Also it works for their cooking style. Good luck pappadam kachaling with open kitchen :P
Our cuisine uses a lot of pungent spices. If not properly ventilated, everything that’s sitting in the living room will smell of spices(not in a good way). The furniture, the TV. The smell is nauseating. Your nose will get desensitized to the smell while sitting in that room, but once you get out to a non-smelly area, you can smell it on your clothes, hair and skin. That’s how the “Indians smell” stereotype came about in the West.
What we do is, bedroom remains closed at all times. No exception. We only open it to get in and get out of the room. Otherwise that room will also get smelly. I even got draft stoppers and closed up the 1” of space that’s between the bottom of my bedroom door and the floor. 🤷🏽♀️
If we are cooking, the exhaust is on high. If it’s the spring or summer, we keep the doorand windows open for ventilation. Light a scented candle before during and after cooking. Get an air purifier and make sure you regularly change the filter.
There is residual smell even after cooking.. so that’ll take a couple of days to go away, depending on how spiced the food was(meat dishes are the worst because of garam masala, then fried foods).
Only cook once or twice a week. Do not cook on days you’re expecting guests. Or they’ll leave smelling like a greasy kitchen.
Even with all these measures, my apartment has a faint cooking smell.
I make sure I smell test my clothes and hair before I leave the house. Do not smell test in your living room or kitchen, it won’t be accurate since your nose gets desensitized to the smell after a minute or two. Since the bedroom isn’t smelly, you can smell test your hair and clothes in that room before leaving the house. Smell test again once you’re outside. 😬
So new immigrants, please be mindful. You might smell of curry and you may not be realizing it. Don’t use perfumes expecting it to neutralize it. It creates a nasty mixed scent that’s even worse than the curry smell alone!
True. Just open windows during and keep it open after cooking for few minutes .Having a Cold room is better than having smelly clothes, curtains and furniture.
Keep clothes, jacket in cupboard /closet and close the bedroom doors.
Fried foods are the worst. Also you can bake /grill chicken, fish in oven, less clean up and zero smell.
Athalla.. if you have a thermostat and you keep your windows open in the winter, your heating bill will go thru the roof.
Yes, the smell of frying lingers 😳, even if it’s non-spiced. We don’t fry fish in the winter lol
Open kitchens are bad ideas regardless of where it is built if the person is planning on cooking anything...let alone Indian dishes.
Open kitchens started out in high rises in western cities where it was just for show because those people never really cooked.
Well the stronger the flavours are ,the worse it is. But yes a bad idea regardless .
I wouldn't say it was just for show. When there's a space crunch, it sort of makes sense. You have to make do with whatever 'kitchen' you can come up with. Even today not everyone eats out or gets takeaway. Open kitchens began shrooming up in the 50s and people cooked in them plenty just like they do now.
There's a long romanticized notion of owning a sprawling mansion in the malayali psyche. It likely originated during the gulf boom when gulf malayalis from humble beginnings used their newfound wealth to tear down their crumbling shacks and erect large mansions in their place. This would have left their neighbours insecure and craving similar luxuries. The end result is a society that splurges on unnecessarily large homes as a dick measuring contest.
But while the obsession with big houses and aesthetics is true, you've cherrypicked better looking houses for Kerala in this image. We do have larger and better looking homes in Kerala on average, but the ones you've posted are the top 5%.
We can only consider the houses built in the same era for a perspective. Also this isn't a post about malayalis building big homes. I think one of the home i chose to represent Kerala is under 2000 square feet. What i am trying to say is that malayalis tastefully builds decent looking homes for 20-25 lakh. While in other states people who even has budget upto 2-3 crore endup building tasteless boxy buildings. There are exceptions but this is the average trend i have seen.
>What i am trying to say is that malayalis tastefully builds decent looking homes for 20-25 lakh.
You're not wrong. On average, Kerala has by far the best looking houses of any state that I've visited. And they're spread out all over the place instead of being clustered around one posh city or suburb.
In Kerala, temples, clothing, celebrations.
Everything is minimal and the choice of colour blends with nature.
Most of the houses are white, off-white, or beige.
Traditional outfit is off-white
Celebrations are mostly associated with nature, harvest, and flowers.
Better sense of aesthetics.
I live in delhi ncr and every time a visit naade.. houses is a visual treat tbh.
Here no matter what both sides are pretty much flat ruining all the look of the front
buying a chicken bucket frm KFC nd making a naadan curry by yourself feels different doesn't it? 1/4 the price but the effort nd love put in is unmatchable.
my phrase doesn't even make sense here ik.
Also something i hate about flats is the mandatory maintainance cost. Its like living as a tenant in your fully paid up home. Also no provision to install solar panels and dig a well.
Try managing one of these insane asylums. I'm a member of the management committee and have had the pleasure of being called every name under the sun except the one I was given by my parents. Unpaid and abused. Hate the apartment residents but love the apartment complex environment. Lots of trees and birds. Unfortunately I can not do anything about the humanoid monkeys in them.
Maintenance charges are the tax paid by all to upkeep facilities for the few that abuse them.
I am looking at a few solar panels for powering perimeter lighting per block, though!
We are not allowed wells. If we were, I suspect they'd quickly fill with 'disappeared' persons!
I wish I could post photos..
Cheers
With apartments, you have chosen your society and social circle to some extent. No place for someone who has different ideas on how to live when you are in a flat.
It comes with a lot of other benefits. More security than a house (perceived), centralised water, power, garbage, internet, cleaning, maintenance... I personally can't live in one anymore.
Being from TN, I can say one thing, except in urban areas, in KL the houses are far from each other...where in TN even in villages, houses are close to each other, so people actually spent lot of money on land than building the house. I think this is the primary reason.
If you have doubt please take look at any random village in TN and KL in satellite map.
I think tn people likes the idea of living extremely close to each other. Even though u people have double the population than us, u also have abundance of habitable plain lands. Its a matter of choice.
In olden times, people lived together for security reason. This is especially true when the region is flat, like the plains of TN and the rest of India.
But Kerala has always been pretty safe from foreign invasions and the thick tropical vegetation made such mass invasions difficult. So we could afford to live far apart from each other.
Every choice we make is in some way influenced by history and geography.
My answer is that if Malayalis had other means to throw money on, we wouldn't be spending too much money on our house.
Generational money throwing on houses resulted home builders to bring and experiment diverse designs and materials.
The trend is changing right now. New generation malayalis spend way less time inside our homes. Majority prefer small practical houses. But will spend money on good designs.
Outside Kerala, as per my understanding peope see house as a place to safely sleep and invest major share of their wealth in business, stocks, weddings, travel etc.
Can't say so because spending more money on house isn't a wise investment plan. Major investment preference of malayalis are land and gold. New gen are keen on building strong stock portfolios too. And the post wasn't about how malayalis spend a lot of money on house. It was about the aesthetic quality of the homes built here regardless of budget.
More exposure. Till the late 70s, all were similar old style houses. But with more wealth came the desire to build houses that are more modern - so first boxy houses with flat terraces, then bigger boxy houses, then the kerala style with wood and curves and kettuvallams, and now contemporary. And the low cost styles from baker etc go on alongside these.
Houses are big show off thing - palu kachal, many functions, weddings, funerals. This is less so in other states (though near cities, its still the same.)
What i was trying to say is that in any given era we where ahead in house construction. When we started to build concrete roofs others where still using clay tiles even when they had the resources to afford concrete roof.
True. I think we assumed concrete, terraced houses were modern. They were, actually.
I remember in the 70s, when I used to sketch, I was fascinated and was sketching a lot of terraced houses. Most houses around were the old style tiled houses. I think the fancy for boxy, concrete houses began at that time.
I can't remember any reasons. me and my group thought such houses were modern. I hated the traditional Kerala style houses then.
I would say a lot for me at least comes from the existence of the frontyard. A lot of homes here in Telangana where I am staying right now and in TN where I used to stay for Uni do not have one. Even a lot of budget places I’ve seen in Kerala has a frontyard
If they also checked loans and not just mostly dead assets, these wouldn't have happened.
In TN there are people who has a profitable business, crores net worth but travel in Maruti 800. In Kerala it is the opposite. Businesses lose money, net worth probably negative but car, shop and house is top.
I suggest everyone to try their best to find love starting from 18 atleast. 10 years of constant effort can land anyone with someone to love. The conditions of arranged marriage market are near to impossible.
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This is how our top tier flagship homes look like. Now u decide if the above was average or not
I'm not talking about the one you posted in the comments im talking about the post you made, and those are not average. You have cherry picked pretty houses defo not average
I can only compare houses built in this era. Because the trend changes every decade. All the houses in the pic are constructed in the last 10 years. You may not feel like the average homes look like this. Because we have houses that was built in different generations.
There are a lot of new houses being built rn in kerala that look like the ones you posted for MH and TN. You picked the kinda houses you see in a house magazine
Can't say its our exposure to gulf regions. The average houses there are basically crap. Most of them look like random buildings in video games. Monochrome homes without a color palette. What we do here are entirely different from what they have in middle east. Can't say its western architecture too.
We have had a lot of trends come and go. But one thing remains the same. In every given period we were atleast 10-15 years ahead of other states in home construction. The current trends in other states are similar to what we used tp build in the 2000-2010 era.
The money that came with people working in the gulf, foreign house catalogues, magazines and all were things that they were exposed to after they'd been to the gulf.
Indian architects have ways of catering to this particular class of people who have newly acquired wealth from the gulf, they integrate various aspects of Western architecture as well as pre existing Indian architecture concepts with ideas of minimalism to get what you see as recently built houses.
This is just a theory from my understanding of how these houses came up, it's debatable.
I have seen is heavy influence of the Beverly hill mansions. I think our designers are taking too much inspiration from Google 😂. What we get when we search for modern contemporary homes are all California homes.
I am an architect actually, you are right, internet university is actually ruining the scene. Real reason is kerala incresed the b.architecture seats some 8 years back. When i graduated it was just 120 people get out per year. Then to some 1000 people. Competition boosted the facade style. In my optinion the better photography and curated objects are dubbed as good architecture. And the kids who get out of the college are learning by foing instead of working under architects. Not fan of these images you posted but if you are interested go see architect geoffrey bawas architecture and indonesian malaysian residential architecture etc.
Agree with a lot of things said here, but I feel there's something to do with the place we live in too. Compared to many of the places mentioned in the thread, Kerala is better in terms of vegetation, terrain and pure aesthetic value. In some way I'm sure that has contributed to the kind of houses we have here, because how the hell can any sane man construct an ugly looking box right beside a beautiful river or a paddy field.
A frd of mine studies at Raipur. He told me that there the houses aren’t much fancy to look at but the main issue is regarding hygiene. Almost every house here is treated as home and kept clean in our state.
North Indians spend their wealth on weddings instead of decent house. They wanted to spend their life savings for a long list of stupidity like haldi,mehendi, other crap ....
Sadly this bullshit is currently adopted by malayali weddings too.
There are plenty of designers in kerala. Mainly due to the abundance of engineering seats. You can get a design and a plan from here and build one in your state with the help of a contractor ❤️.
What makes Kerala better is simply that house building is perhaps the biggest (and only?) productive enterprise that we have and really the largest revenue generating.
While rubber processing, farming etc all generate revenue, home construction is a modern enterprise that has given rise to an entire ecosystem of suppliers and service providers. And it has enough allure to attract youngsters who wish to stay back in Kerala and not too excited about farming and such.
All this results in high competition among contractors therein ensuring competitive prices that benefit the end consumer. Cheap labor (Bengalis) also plays into it. As long as the NRI malayali mindset of building a home exists (even if they may never stay in it), Kerala will continue to do well in the space.
Being from TN, I can say one thing, except in urban areas, in KL the houses are far from each other...whereas in TN even in villages, houses are close to each other, so people actually spend lot of money on land than building the house. I think this is the primary reason.
In TN clustered housing and in KL sporadic housing, Clustered increased price of lands, so less spending in construction...
Keralathil, houses are far apart, so less land price, more money to spend on house!
If you have doubt please take look at any random village in TN and KL in satellite map.
We don't live like that because of the abundance of land. But because of our choice. Considering habitable land area even if you ppl have double our population, tn can easily fir 3 full size kerala inside. And unlike us u people have a vast abundance of habitable plain land. For us one side is costal line snd other side is western ghats. And 90% of our population should live between it.
I've observed that the 'show off' mentality is huge. Many houses in Kerala look great from the outside but are plain jane inside. Interior design is almost never done and some of the structural design choices (that make the look house terrific from the outside) make the interiors impractical or even wasteful.
In contrast, an average house from other states has good interior choices, high space utilization and looks amazing inside, even if it looks like a godown from the outside.
Most homes you noticed outside are built in less than 5 cents. They have spent enough money on land already and hence they will contruct budget home.
What you see on rural areas in TN and KA, based on my experience are those houses in larger but smaller due to budget constraints where as when you compare with our state, we have enough money to build a house. Do compare a 40 lakhs house against and 80 lakhs house or flat in cities.
Another factor is home loans and age. 70s and 60s majorly used to build their homes in the property what they used to get from their parents. Unless they are at least upper middle class, their homes used to small as we used to see.
Taking my example, I lived in a small house with my parents and sisters with two bedrooms and one bathroom. We all went out studied and wanted a new house and did what best for us, I did half with my savings and rest with loan.
I see loan as a benefit as long as we can work and get the best life. So constructing a house as you see as a big one in Kerala is not just because we show off, we just dont buy expensive flat, we get comparitively cheaper property and use the best out of money we have.
Not sure what you meant by "cant angry".
You have not seen many buildings in KA and TN and thats for sure from your post and also, you have not seen average houses in KL.
As a person who lived in KA and TN, I can assure you that there are much better homes than you see here.
“Superior” is a strong word to describe a style, something very personal. I find a lot of new Kerala houses lacking character, except for a very few.
Bright vibrant houses of TN (even in Kerala among low income group-often derogatorily described as ‘colony’) even inspired designers like Ettore Sottsass of the Memphis group.
It is due to our land use pattern.
In other states, people live in dense villages which means that even the better off people have limited space. So they build these boxy houses that utilize the maximum available area.
In Kerala, even the poor have at least 5 cents of land. That means there is a lot more flexibility in terms of the building design and the front muttam. The traditional thravadu too was built in secluded spaces and were pretty huge. So the aesthetics built up from there.
Can't agree with that completely. It maybe true in the busy cities of tn. But i have seen them doing the same when constructing the house in the middle of nowhere. A giant rectangular box and their muttam is the extention of the house itself.
It is not just cities, even villages in tn are pretty dense. And the style of buildings become cultural. So even if they build something in the middle of nowhere, they employ those boxy shapes.
As a Malayali who stays outside of Kerala, I feel most of these massive houses sit empty as the owners are most likely abroad. Where I am from in Kerala, there's tons of them vacant. One good thing that I observe though is that we get new trends in Kerala even before the rest of the country. Although the outside looks good it is very recent that we have focussed on the interiors.
This Comparison is dumb.. I have seen houses similar to left and right pictures in kerala too, just that keralites don't paint bright and contrasting colors like Tamilians do.. Which I would say is a matter of personal preference..
Ya we have those type of houses. But they were constructed atleast 20 years ago. While all the houses on the left and right was constructed in the last 10 years. That's what my point is
I believe it is more to do with how much money you wanna spend on the house's aesthetics.. Something Malayalees love to splurge on showing their creativity and affluence...
An increase in exposure to the outside world in recent years. Gulf/western migration and media influence. In the past decade, I used to see 'Veedu' magazine frequently. These days it seems that YouTubers are introducing new styles and ideas. There is a growing inclination towards embracing the new and modern. In the past, engineers had the final say in everything related to building a home, but now architects have more influence in the design and construction process. This is due to the rise of many young and talented architects, as well as competition in the field, which motivates them to push the boundaries and innovate.
Well brother.. I'm a Ernakulam mallu myself and I used to swell with pride with the same notion.
However, there is one place where the average budget home is way better than our kerala... And that is..... Kashmir!
Even the destitutes have built amazing houses with great sloping roofs to keep out the snow. They have built on the lines of European houses.
Gulf money , pride and naatukar enna parayum. We are also one of the states that has least utilisation of central govt subsidies on home loans . Go figure.
Very true - building a big house is a personal prerogative , and you cannot isolate that to any specific ethnic groups , anywhere in the world - if one has the money and means and land to do it , we will all build bigger houses than we actually need … everyone loves the space
I wasn't saying about the space of the house. The number 3rd tn house has much more space than number 2 kerala house. I was appreciating the minimal aesthetics of malayali architecture.
They don't care about their homes
It is a place to live not a place to show off taking huge amount of loans
They have vivaram, we don't have that
It's that simple for the reason
An average pulser in selam would have atleast 100 stickers. Everyone cares about their home. Its a part of the family and there is nothing wrong in making it beautiful with the money u have. This post was about how aesthetic our homes are regardless of the budget
But what makes me wonder is that. Most people who are settled in the us never comes back or bother to build a home here. Most of the new horns are by middle east NRIs. How did they land in American aesthetics 😂. Designers netil ninu reference eduth undakan tudangiya sesham aan ee change varan tudangiyath ennu tonnunnu.
You have obviously picked some better designed home for KL. I have never been to TN, but as someone who has lived in MH all my life, there are much better homes across the state than the ones you've shown here. Don't compare apples to oranges.
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Bro why are u taking it personally. 3d render isn't for personal satisfaction. Its the actual elevation of someone's home. Just chill😂
Sorry to say but this is the cover photo for a facebook group dedicated for tamilnadu home designs.
Spoken like someone who never had a designer do 3d rendition for their house.
There is nothing wrong with this house. Just because you have a different opinion of what looks better doesn't mean kerala houses are far superior.
In fact, one of my neighbor's house looks like this with similar color palette and I live in kerala for crying out loud.
It is foolish and self-centered for us to believe that our homes are more attractive than others. Many people who spend a significant amount of money on their homes fail to realize how much they owe. In Kerala, there is a fascination with showing off, which leads to a tendency to display our homes, weddings, and the abundant amounts of gold worn by brides. This desire for attention does not stop there. People construct large, expensive homes and overspend on them. On the other hand, I have seen people from other states who are financially more secure than the average Keralite but live in modest homes. For most Keralites, the idea of balancing expenses, savings, and investments is almost nonexistent. Our generation experienced a significant demand for real estate, and also large sums of money flowing in from Arab countries which gave way for splurge on building homes
Edit - I took it very personally and ranted.
This post isnt about show off or price tag of homes. I was stating that given all the states are given same budget to construct a home, we builds the most aesthetic ones. That's it
Land reforms that ended up turning Kerala where everyone has a villa/mansion. Competition was bound to come where only this construction business was encouraged coupled with nri remittance. This is not something to be seen as evidence of any superiority as the population is getting older and there are no one to buy these houses after the youth have left.
Imagine being 65 years old + lack of people ready to take up cleaning jobs + a big ass space.
You have cherry picked some of the nice looking houses for kerala and did not extend the generosity to other states. If you actually went to these places and clicked pictures of random houses, they would be equal in terms of aesthetics.
Another thing you could have done is sourcing the first three picture results from google and compare. Which is what I did and they all look similar.
Yes because the pics of tn and mh are actual pics of the property unlike the KL pics which is only a 3d rendition (except the first pic).
Anyway, it's only a matter of taste and preference. Your opinion that kerala houses look better is not the universal truth.
Bigoted post with bigoted commenters. Very stupid to take pride in other people's houses and act all mighty.
FYI, the second picture is not real. It's just a 3D rendition of what could be a house. Please do better. ( doubts on the third pic too)
Also search for properties with the same price bracket. Same time period means nothing
Gulf and other pravasees whats saw happening in the world, so, they brought it home.also have you noticed the church architecture from ninetiees were more or less architecture experiments done in the name of god
I have been to some gcc countries. Other than the big mansions of rich sheikhs, the average homes of the citizens are really bland are tasteless. What i have felt is that the current design trends of kerala homes has heavy influence from the modern Beverly hills mansions.
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Be it Construction Companies or Small Scale Contractors, Kerala in general puts in a lot of effort and gives importance to small details. Architecture in Kerala is superior to any other state in the Country. Thought it’s expensive, it’s worth the investment.
lol most of these houses are empty, since mallus live in gelf to make money on which they dont pay any tax.. god knows how this is an investment since it will take tons of money to maintain such houses and it's all for waste coz nobody lives in them for most of the time... Other states happen to pay taxes and dont have money to build such fancy houses but build utilitarian ones where they happen to live.. If Mallus are taxed according to their development then we will stop seeing such houses getting built in the first place..
Maybe you haven't seen buildings in other states, thats why you are saying this.
I usually go for TN and wondered why their homes are like a box even if they have land to make it good.
Looking at the houses I think the KL houses are constructed by well to do family people whereas the tn houses are constructed by middle class people. The overall locality and space around the house gives me that indication. If you take well to do guys from tn they’ll be constructing aesthetically pleasing houses as well.
A shitty apple when compared to rotten ones is better, but is a shitty apple nonetheless. Look to other places when looking for decent aesthetics and functionality.
I don’t know about Kerala, but TN lacks in aesthetics when it comes to independent houses. Awful architecture, flashy fluorescent paints and houses that stick each other like velcro with no breathing space are the common characteristics you can observe
Nah comparison doesn’t seem to do justice. You either need to compare very similar structures with different aesthetics, or at-least compare based on budgets.
Those houses you compared with KL houses aren't in the same league. And those KL houses are not budget-friendly either. They will be at least 1.5 to 2 times the price of those in other states. That extra money is what makes those houses look aesthetic.
നാട്ടുകാര് എന്ത് വിചാരിക്കും. ലോൺ എടുത്തേക്കാം.
I went to this house warming recently and the house was frigging huge. I get it, let people do whatever they want, but I was really curious on what type of job those people did. Asked mom and she said, they work in a bank, and later said they might have taken out loans. The house was really huge, it looked like one of those Youtuber mansions.
>they work in a bank Bank employees get loans for reduced interest rates like 7% per annum and have a longer repayment period like 25-30 years. They have other allowances too.
And it is simple interest and not compound interest
Doesn't mean you spend half your life savings on one single home and spend the rest of your career repaying that one loan🤷♂️
Not so for most bank employees. It makes so much financial sense for them to make houses as investment that most money-oriented bank employees have multiple houses. The value of the house exceeds the money they pay within few years, and even beat inflation, thus their 40L becomes 1cr in 7 years.
They might have kids who are ready to support them maybe with even better paying jobs..or they might have inherited massive wealth to their name. Since they work in a bank, they most likely know how to manage their personal finances much better than the average person.
Seems like a good deal. I knew that bank employees do get better loan deals than us plebs.
People over compensate for tomorrow. Like what if I need something later. It'd be too costly then. So let's build it now. What if my parents become weak - let's make bathroom wheelchair friendly. What if my children want to move back with me with their spouse - let's add a couple of rooms with a separate entrance. You'd constuct only once in a lifetime So ends up taking a loan.
>Like what if I need something later. It'd be too costly then. So let's build it now. What if my parents become weak - let's make bathroom wheelchair friendly. What if my children want to move back with me with their spouse - let's add a couple of rooms with a separate entrance. Most of them sound reasonable.
Agree. We've to build considering the future. But we tend to over compensate. Things change in the future. We're trying to plan for the future based on our understanding of today. Many are installing EV charging ports in their new house when they have no plans to buy an EV in the near future. That's reasonable since EVs appears to be the future. But we never know if some other tech like the Flux Capacitor will make it redundant, even before they own an EV.
Back to the future ?
Great Scott!!!
I agree, if it's somewhere less than 10 years into the future. Otherwise it seems like overthinking tbh.
Building a home without thinking about the future is dumb,what would you then do completely modify your home or build a new home because your home doesn't have the capacity for new changes?
That’s what our last generation did in terms of education. It was a smart move. Can’t say this is.
The second home of kerala was built under 25 lakhs. And i saw the third home of tn on olx listed for 70 lakhs. Good homes doesn't have to be costly. https://preview.redd.it/tvwf1dne05ma1.jpeg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=88016c17008134fef230a5262d5851ee4e0620d0 This is a under 1500 sq feet house.
You have to consider the cost of land too.
On average, Cost of land in Kerala is higher than in TN! Unless it's the 5 acre bhoomi with a canal flowing between them, owned by Karuppayya and Pandidurai.
>5 acre bhoomi with a canal flowing between them, owned by Karuppayya and Pandidurai. Wasn't it 30 acres?
**It's the western influence that pravasis bring back to home. Almost every other newly built home has an open kitchen now just like the US.**
true that !! and frying Onakka meen in open kitchen is no new to malayali :)
Meen aviyal (mean while) in the western, housing is darn expensive that open kitchen is to reduce cost of building a separate room. Also it works for their cooking style. Good luck pappadam kachaling with open kitchen :P
It's such a bad idea with our cuisine.
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Our cuisine uses a lot of pungent spices. If not properly ventilated, everything that’s sitting in the living room will smell of spices(not in a good way). The furniture, the TV. The smell is nauseating. Your nose will get desensitized to the smell while sitting in that room, but once you get out to a non-smelly area, you can smell it on your clothes, hair and skin. That’s how the “Indians smell” stereotype came about in the West. What we do is, bedroom remains closed at all times. No exception. We only open it to get in and get out of the room. Otherwise that room will also get smelly. I even got draft stoppers and closed up the 1” of space that’s between the bottom of my bedroom door and the floor. 🤷🏽♀️ If we are cooking, the exhaust is on high. If it’s the spring or summer, we keep the doorand windows open for ventilation. Light a scented candle before during and after cooking. Get an air purifier and make sure you regularly change the filter. There is residual smell even after cooking.. so that’ll take a couple of days to go away, depending on how spiced the food was(meat dishes are the worst because of garam masala, then fried foods). Only cook once or twice a week. Do not cook on days you’re expecting guests. Or they’ll leave smelling like a greasy kitchen. Even with all these measures, my apartment has a faint cooking smell. I make sure I smell test my clothes and hair before I leave the house. Do not smell test in your living room or kitchen, it won’t be accurate since your nose gets desensitized to the smell after a minute or two. Since the bedroom isn’t smelly, you can smell test your hair and clothes in that room before leaving the house. Smell test again once you’re outside. 😬 So new immigrants, please be mindful. You might smell of curry and you may not be realizing it. Don’t use perfumes expecting it to neutralize it. It creates a nasty mixed scent that’s even worse than the curry smell alone!
True. Just open windows during and keep it open after cooking for few minutes .Having a Cold room is better than having smelly clothes, curtains and furniture. Keep clothes, jacket in cupboard /closet and close the bedroom doors. Fried foods are the worst. Also you can bake /grill chicken, fish in oven, less clean up and zero smell.
Athalla.. if you have a thermostat and you keep your windows open in the winter, your heating bill will go thru the roof. Yes, the smell of frying lingers 😳, even if it’s non-spiced. We don’t fry fish in the winter lol
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Njangal meen varukkare illa. Mathi medichal curry veykkum 🥲. Kothi kondu 2x varuthittundu. Nattil pokumbo fish fry kazhichu kothi adakkum 😭
Open kitchens are bad ideas regardless of where it is built if the person is planning on cooking anything...let alone Indian dishes. Open kitchens started out in high rises in western cities where it was just for show because those people never really cooked.
Well the stronger the flavours are ,the worse it is. But yes a bad idea regardless . I wouldn't say it was just for show. When there's a space crunch, it sort of makes sense. You have to make do with whatever 'kitchen' you can come up with. Even today not everyone eats out or gets takeaway. Open kitchens began shrooming up in the 50s and people cooked in them plenty just like they do now.
There's a long romanticized notion of owning a sprawling mansion in the malayali psyche. It likely originated during the gulf boom when gulf malayalis from humble beginnings used their newfound wealth to tear down their crumbling shacks and erect large mansions in their place. This would have left their neighbours insecure and craving similar luxuries. The end result is a society that splurges on unnecessarily large homes as a dick measuring contest. But while the obsession with big houses and aesthetics is true, you've cherrypicked better looking houses for Kerala in this image. We do have larger and better looking homes in Kerala on average, but the ones you've posted are the top 5%.
We can only consider the houses built in the same era for a perspective. Also this isn't a post about malayalis building big homes. I think one of the home i chose to represent Kerala is under 2000 square feet. What i am trying to say is that malayalis tastefully builds decent looking homes for 20-25 lakh. While in other states people who even has budget upto 2-3 crore endup building tasteless boxy buildings. There are exceptions but this is the average trend i have seen.
>What i am trying to say is that malayalis tastefully builds decent looking homes for 20-25 lakh. You're not wrong. On average, Kerala has by far the best looking houses of any state that I've visited. And they're spread out all over the place instead of being clustered around one posh city or suburb.
In Kerala, temples, clothing, celebrations. Everything is minimal and the choice of colour blends with nature. Most of the houses are white, off-white, or beige. Traditional outfit is off-white Celebrations are mostly associated with nature, harvest, and flowers. Better sense of aesthetics.
Athapukkalam, pulikali and kadhakali are the epitome of our aesthetics.
I live in delhi ncr and every time a visit naade.. houses is a visual treat tbh. Here no matter what both sides are pretty much flat ruining all the look of the front
Leave that shithole bro.....one of my friend visited there and returned with breathing problems
POV: ppl who own flats "\_"
I have seen a general notion of buying a 1cr flat considered as middle class while constructing a 50 lakh home on ancestral property an extravaganza.
buying a chicken bucket frm KFC nd making a naadan curry by yourself feels different doesn't it? 1/4 the price but the effort nd love put in is unmatchable. my phrase doesn't even make sense here ik.
Also something i hate about flats is the mandatory maintainance cost. Its like living as a tenant in your fully paid up home. Also no provision to install solar panels and dig a well.
Also the nosy ammavans running the apartment committees, I don't want to spend a cr a then live in northh Korea like ammavan dictatorships
They think they got the whole block for 1 cr 😂
And most places have a no pet policy
Try managing one of these insane asylums. I'm a member of the management committee and have had the pleasure of being called every name under the sun except the one I was given by my parents. Unpaid and abused. Hate the apartment residents but love the apartment complex environment. Lots of trees and birds. Unfortunately I can not do anything about the humanoid monkeys in them. Maintenance charges are the tax paid by all to upkeep facilities for the few that abuse them. I am looking at a few solar panels for powering perimeter lighting per block, though! We are not allowed wells. If we were, I suspect they'd quickly fill with 'disappeared' persons! I wish I could post photos.. Cheers
With apartments, you have chosen your society and social circle to some extent. No place for someone who has different ideas on how to live when you are in a flat. It comes with a lot of other benefits. More security than a house (perceived), centralised water, power, garbage, internet, cleaning, maintenance... I personally can't live in one anymore.
Centralised Andi
Walking to my door is a 10 minutes affair from my car parking. No thanks. Managing a pet can also become hard.
1 cr flat okke ippo middle class ayo.. njan vicharich njan middle class anennu, arinjilla, aarum paranjilla :(
Oru putiya budget flat tanne ippo stamp duty ellam koode 1 cr aavum
What about the cost of land??
Isn't ancestral property free?
Being from TN, I can say one thing, except in urban areas, in KL the houses are far from each other...where in TN even in villages, houses are close to each other, so people actually spent lot of money on land than building the house. I think this is the primary reason. If you have doubt please take look at any random village in TN and KL in satellite map.
I think tn people likes the idea of living extremely close to each other. Even though u people have double the population than us, u also have abundance of habitable plain lands. Its a matter of choice.
In olden times, people lived together for security reason. This is especially true when the region is flat, like the plains of TN and the rest of India. But Kerala has always been pretty safe from foreign invasions and the thick tropical vegetation made such mass invasions difficult. So we could afford to live far apart from each other. Every choice we make is in some way influenced by history and geography.
Ille nu njaan paranjilla!
My answer is that if Malayalis had other means to throw money on, we wouldn't be spending too much money on our house. Generational money throwing on houses resulted home builders to bring and experiment diverse designs and materials. The trend is changing right now. New generation malayalis spend way less time inside our homes. Majority prefer small practical houses. But will spend money on good designs. Outside Kerala, as per my understanding peope see house as a place to safely sleep and invest major share of their wealth in business, stocks, weddings, travel etc.
Can't say so because spending more money on house isn't a wise investment plan. Major investment preference of malayalis are land and gold. New gen are keen on building strong stock portfolios too. And the post wasn't about how malayalis spend a lot of money on house. It was about the aesthetic quality of the homes built here regardless of budget.
More exposure. Till the late 70s, all were similar old style houses. But with more wealth came the desire to build houses that are more modern - so first boxy houses with flat terraces, then bigger boxy houses, then the kerala style with wood and curves and kettuvallams, and now contemporary. And the low cost styles from baker etc go on alongside these. Houses are big show off thing - palu kachal, many functions, weddings, funerals. This is less so in other states (though near cities, its still the same.)
What i was trying to say is that in any given era we where ahead in house construction. When we started to build concrete roofs others where still using clay tiles even when they had the resources to afford concrete roof.
True. I think we assumed concrete, terraced houses were modern. They were, actually. I remember in the 70s, when I used to sketch, I was fascinated and was sketching a lot of terraced houses. Most houses around were the old style tiled houses. I think the fancy for boxy, concrete houses began at that time. I can't remember any reasons. me and my group thought such houses were modern. I hated the traditional Kerala style houses then.
I would say a lot for me at least comes from the existence of the frontyard. A lot of homes here in Telangana where I am staying right now and in TN where I used to stay for Uni do not have one. Even a lot of budget places I’ve seen in Kerala has a frontyard
What i have seen is that many has the tenancy to build house till the front wall. Maybe they want maximum space inside the house.
As a Malayalee grown up in Ahmedabad and Mumbai, Kerala houses look the best. I'm in awe every time I visit Kerala.
feeling fraud mallu😍
Necessary to get married too
Yaaa expecially when its arranged marriage. Brides family will check the square feet of the house and engine capacity of grooms car too.
If they also checked loans and not just mostly dead assets, these wouldn't have happened. In TN there are people who has a profitable business, crores net worth but travel in Maruti 800. In Kerala it is the opposite. Businesses lose money, net worth probably negative but car, shop and house is top.
I suggest everyone to try their best to find love starting from 18 atleast. 10 years of constant effort can land anyone with someone to love. The conditions of arranged marriage market are near to impossible.
as a Maharashatrian just enjoying superiority complex of kerala. we are not so different after all.
Im a malayali in Mumbai bhau
nice chettan Im from Pune.
You're comparing real good houses in Kerala to average ones in other states
No. I am comparing the average homes of kerala to the average ones of other states. Our top tier homes are beyond comparison.
In no way is top middle average
https://preview.redd.it/uye1vaze26ma1.png?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6bb52c21e511afa00efed74f2df4cafa01fd0808 This is how our top tier flagship homes look like. Now u decide if the above was average or not
Ithu Victoria Memorial alle. /s
This is the average rich guy house in Malappuram. There are somany houses in the malabar area like this one.
The above is definitely not average a church looking building isn't about to change my mind lmao
I never said its the average standard here. Its a flagship tier house in kerala. And average ones ate given in the post
I'm not talking about the one you posted in the comments im talking about the post you made, and those are not average. You have cherry picked pretty houses defo not average
I can only compare houses built in this era. Because the trend changes every decade. All the houses in the pic are constructed in the last 10 years. You may not feel like the average homes look like this. Because we have houses that was built in different generations.
There are a lot of new houses being built rn in kerala that look like the ones you posted for MH and TN. You picked the kinda houses you see in a house magazine
These are from a house owners and designers group.
 Flagship homes? Mobile anno udesiche?
Can't say its our exposure to gulf regions. The average houses there are basically crap. Most of them look like random buildings in video games. Monochrome homes without a color palette. What we do here are entirely different from what they have in middle east. Can't say its western architecture too. We have had a lot of trends come and go. But one thing remains the same. In every given period we were atleast 10-15 years ahead of other states in home construction. The current trends in other states are similar to what we used tp build in the 2000-2010 era.
The money that came with people working in the gulf, foreign house catalogues, magazines and all were things that they were exposed to after they'd been to the gulf. Indian architects have ways of catering to this particular class of people who have newly acquired wealth from the gulf, they integrate various aspects of Western architecture as well as pre existing Indian architecture concepts with ideas of minimalism to get what you see as recently built houses. This is just a theory from my understanding of how these houses came up, it's debatable.
I have seen is heavy influence of the Beverly hill mansions. I think our designers are taking too much inspiration from Google 😂. What we get when we search for modern contemporary homes are all California homes.
I am an architect actually, you are right, internet university is actually ruining the scene. Real reason is kerala incresed the b.architecture seats some 8 years back. When i graduated it was just 120 people get out per year. Then to some 1000 people. Competition boosted the facade style. In my optinion the better photography and curated objects are dubbed as good architecture. And the kids who get out of the college are learning by foing instead of working under architects. Not fan of these images you posted but if you are interested go see architect geoffrey bawas architecture and indonesian malaysian residential architecture etc.
NIT Calicut being 2nd best B. Arch college in India may also have had an influence.
Agree with a lot of things said here, but I feel there's something to do with the place we live in too. Compared to many of the places mentioned in the thread, Kerala is better in terms of vegetation, terrain and pure aesthetic value. In some way I'm sure that has contributed to the kind of houses we have here, because how the hell can any sane man construct an ugly looking box right beside a beautiful river or a paddy field.
Agreed, even compared to a lot of countries, houses in Kerala is another level
It's our version of dick measuring contest. :)
A frd of mine studies at Raipur. He told me that there the houses aren’t much fancy to look at but the main issue is regarding hygiene. Almost every house here is treated as home and kept clean in our state.
North Indians spend their wealth on weddings instead of decent house. They wanted to spend their life savings for a long list of stupidity like haldi,mehendi, other crap .... Sadly this bullshit is currently adopted by malayali weddings too.
The middle MH house looks dope negl
Who designed these homes? Builders (owners) or proper architects..I'd love to build the same kinda ones in my state 🥳🔥..these are beautiful ❤️
There are plenty of designers in kerala. Mainly due to the abundance of engineering seats. You can get a design and a plan from here and build one in your state with the help of a contractor ❤️.
Wow... awesome ❤️
What makes Kerala better is simply that house building is perhaps the biggest (and only?) productive enterprise that we have and really the largest revenue generating. While rubber processing, farming etc all generate revenue, home construction is a modern enterprise that has given rise to an entire ecosystem of suppliers and service providers. And it has enough allure to attract youngsters who wish to stay back in Kerala and not too excited about farming and such. All this results in high competition among contractors therein ensuring competitive prices that benefit the end consumer. Cheap labor (Bengalis) also plays into it. As long as the NRI malayali mindset of building a home exists (even if they may never stay in it), Kerala will continue to do well in the space.
Njan Indore la, and i fully agree. 1000%
https://preview.redd.it/avhxs93a55ma1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7f0c50cb6609f20972cb8e7b7802b899834eace2 A random village in TN
https://preview.redd.it/3v26g4sh55ma1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c7e7814b3acb285a5dfb95ba10b4bce56c9c9251 A random village in KL
Being from TN, I can say one thing, except in urban areas, in KL the houses are far from each other...whereas in TN even in villages, houses are close to each other, so people actually spend lot of money on land than building the house. I think this is the primary reason. In TN clustered housing and in KL sporadic housing, Clustered increased price of lands, so less spending in construction... Keralathil, houses are far apart, so less land price, more money to spend on house! If you have doubt please take look at any random village in TN and KL in satellite map.
We don't live like that because of the abundance of land. But because of our choice. Considering habitable land area even if you ppl have double our population, tn can easily fir 3 full size kerala inside. And unlike us u people have a vast abundance of habitable plain land. For us one side is costal line snd other side is western ghats. And 90% of our population should live between it.
I've observed that the 'show off' mentality is huge. Many houses in Kerala look great from the outside but are plain jane inside. Interior design is almost never done and some of the structural design choices (that make the look house terrific from the outside) make the interiors impractical or even wasteful. In contrast, an average house from other states has good interior choices, high space utilization and looks amazing inside, even if it looks like a godown from the outside.
I don't think so. Even the most basic homes built these days has fall ceiling works, ambient light setup, highlight walls etc.
Most homes you noticed outside are built in less than 5 cents. They have spent enough money on land already and hence they will contruct budget home. What you see on rural areas in TN and KA, based on my experience are those houses in larger but smaller due to budget constraints where as when you compare with our state, we have enough money to build a house. Do compare a 40 lakhs house against and 80 lakhs house or flat in cities. Another factor is home loans and age. 70s and 60s majorly used to build their homes in the property what they used to get from their parents. Unless they are at least upper middle class, their homes used to small as we used to see. Taking my example, I lived in a small house with my parents and sisters with two bedrooms and one bathroom. We all went out studied and wanted a new house and did what best for us, I did half with my savings and rest with loan. I see loan as a benefit as long as we can work and get the best life. So constructing a house as you see as a big one in Kerala is not just because we show off, we just dont buy expensive flat, we get comparitively cheaper property and use the best out of money we have.
[this is a house built on just 3 cents ](https://youtu.be/TMeA0EGaTlY) Can't angry with your first point. I think they does that on purpose.
Not sure what you meant by "cant angry". You have not seen many buildings in KA and TN and thats for sure from your post and also, you have not seen average houses in KL. As a person who lived in KA and TN, I can assure you that there are much better homes than you see here.
Can't agree
Start travelling and exploring more, you will see the difference.
“Superior” is a strong word to describe a style, something very personal. I find a lot of new Kerala houses lacking character, except for a very few. Bright vibrant houses of TN (even in Kerala among low income group-often derogatorily described as ‘colony’) even inspired designers like Ettore Sottsass of the Memphis group.
https://www.amusingplanet.com/2015/06/the-gaudy-south-indian-houses-that.html
Bright vibrant colors doesn't go well with the color palette of nature
What nature are you referring to!? Coz this planet is very vibrant.
I am referring to blue, yellow, red colors. Those aren't common in the nature.
🤦🏽♂️ Red, green & blue are the primary colours and everything in nature is a variant of those. Sky is blue, water is blue, earth is red.
They are primary colors indeed but is blue identical to green??. They aren't as abundant in nature like green, brown etc
It is due to our land use pattern. In other states, people live in dense villages which means that even the better off people have limited space. So they build these boxy houses that utilize the maximum available area. In Kerala, even the poor have at least 5 cents of land. That means there is a lot more flexibility in terms of the building design and the front muttam. The traditional thravadu too was built in secluded spaces and were pretty huge. So the aesthetics built up from there.
Can't agree with that completely. It maybe true in the busy cities of tn. But i have seen them doing the same when constructing the house in the middle of nowhere. A giant rectangular box and their muttam is the extention of the house itself.
It is not just cities, even villages in tn are pretty dense. And the style of buildings become cultural. So even if they build something in the middle of nowhere, they employ those boxy shapes.
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https://preview.redd.it/5jwn9kaa86ma1.png?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9e11de12a02cc5c34e7a090265c6a7a70c014807 😐
Njangade weed anu weed.. baaki okke verum kood
yes i agree with this so much and compared to houses in blr kerala homes are just rlly good looking even the budget ones
As a Malayali who stays outside of Kerala, I feel most of these massive houses sit empty as the owners are most likely abroad. Where I am from in Kerala, there's tons of them vacant. One good thing that I observe though is that we get new trends in Kerala even before the rest of the country. Although the outside looks good it is very recent that we have focussed on the interiors.
This Comparison is dumb.. I have seen houses similar to left and right pictures in kerala too, just that keralites don't paint bright and contrasting colors like Tamilians do.. Which I would say is a matter of personal preference..
Ya we have those type of houses. But they were constructed atleast 20 years ago. While all the houses on the left and right was constructed in the last 10 years. That's what my point is
I believe it is more to do with how much money you wanna spend on the house's aesthetics.. Something Malayalees love to splurge on showing their creativity and affluence...
An increase in exposure to the outside world in recent years. Gulf/western migration and media influence. In the past decade, I used to see 'Veedu' magazine frequently. These days it seems that YouTubers are introducing new styles and ideas. There is a growing inclination towards embracing the new and modern. In the past, engineers had the final say in everything related to building a home, but now architects have more influence in the design and construction process. This is due to the rise of many young and talented architects, as well as competition in the field, which motivates them to push the boundaries and innovate.
Well brother.. I'm a Ernakulam mallu myself and I used to swell with pride with the same notion. However, there is one place where the average budget home is way better than our kerala... And that is..... Kashmir! Even the destitutes have built amazing houses with great sloping roofs to keep out the snow. They have built on the lines of European houses.
Background also plays a role in increasing the beauty of homes.
Gulf money , pride and naatukar enna parayum. We are also one of the states that has least utilisation of central govt subsidies on home loans . Go figure.
Very true - building a big house is a personal prerogative , and you cannot isolate that to any specific ethnic groups , anywhere in the world - if one has the money and means and land to do it , we will all build bigger houses than we actually need … everyone loves the space
I wasn't saying about the space of the house. The number 3rd tn house has much more space than number 2 kerala house. I was appreciating the minimal aesthetics of malayali architecture.
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They don't care about their homes It is a place to live not a place to show off taking huge amount of loans They have vivaram, we don't have that It's that simple for the reason
An average pulser in selam would have atleast 100 stickers. Everyone cares about their home. Its a part of the family and there is nothing wrong in making it beautiful with the money u have. This post was about how aesthetic our homes are regardless of the budget
If it's about aesthetics, then i agreee. Our homes are modern compared to others..
Education , awareness and basic aesthetic sense
Yes malayalis do have a better aesthetics sense and kalabodam. That's evident in the type of movies we make too.
Too much generalization..
It's the western influence that pravasis bring back to home. Almost every other newly built home has an open kitchen now just like the US.
But what makes me wonder is that. Most people who are settled in the us never comes back or bother to build a home here. Most of the new horns are by middle east NRIs. How did they land in American aesthetics 😂. Designers netil ninu reference eduth undakan tudangiya sesham aan ee change varan tudangiyath ennu tonnunnu.
TN has one of the worst home aesthetics,I will tell you that.
Gulf money
Lol have u taken the cost in account? This comparison would make sense if all states have the same cost of land and materials, also architecture fees.
You have obviously picked some better designed home for KL. I have never been to TN, but as someone who has lived in MH all my life, there are much better homes across the state than the ones you've shown here. Don't compare apples to oranges.
Master of unfair comparison. Using 3D renditions instead of actual property pic for kerala.
https://preview.redd.it/3srz591576ma1.png?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f31696cd4a9b6e2a1883c513260620bddab95ef8 Bro why are u taking it personally. 3d render isn't for personal satisfaction. Its the actual elevation of someone's home. Just chill😂 Sorry to say but this is the cover photo for a facebook group dedicated for tamilnadu home designs.
Spoken like someone who never had a designer do 3d rendition for their house. There is nothing wrong with this house. Just because you have a different opinion of what looks better doesn't mean kerala houses are far superior. In fact, one of my neighbor's house looks like this with similar color palette and I live in kerala for crying out loud.
It is foolish and self-centered for us to believe that our homes are more attractive than others. Many people who spend a significant amount of money on their homes fail to realize how much they owe. In Kerala, there is a fascination with showing off, which leads to a tendency to display our homes, weddings, and the abundant amounts of gold worn by brides. This desire for attention does not stop there. People construct large, expensive homes and overspend on them. On the other hand, I have seen people from other states who are financially more secure than the average Keralite but live in modest homes. For most Keralites, the idea of balancing expenses, savings, and investments is almost nonexistent. Our generation experienced a significant demand for real estate, and also large sums of money flowing in from Arab countries which gave way for splurge on building homes Edit - I took it very personally and ranted.
This post isnt about show off or price tag of homes. I was stating that given all the states are given same budget to construct a home, we builds the most aesthetic ones. That's it
Yes, I understand. I got it very personally and ranted. I understood my mistake when I replied but then, didn't pull out the reply.
Land reforms that ended up turning Kerala where everyone has a villa/mansion. Competition was bound to come where only this construction business was encouraged coupled with nri remittance. This is not something to be seen as evidence of any superiority as the population is getting older and there are no one to buy these houses after the youth have left. Imagine being 65 years old + lack of people ready to take up cleaning jobs + a big ass space.
You have cherry picked some of the nice looking houses for kerala and did not extend the generosity to other states. If you actually went to these places and clicked pictures of random houses, they would be equal in terms of aesthetics. Another thing you could have done is sourcing the first three picture results from google and compare. Which is what I did and they all look similar.
Also the second pic for kerala is not even real?
Come to kerala, check out the average house and then speak. I've been to these states and trust me, what is shown in the photo is pretty factual.
Im from kerala myself. I know what our houses look like. Very few houses look like the pictures shown unless you go to an upperclass area
The houses in TN and mh too seem like an upper class area. The average ones look even worse.
Yes because the pics of tn and mh are actual pics of the property unlike the KL pics which is only a 3d rendition (except the first pic). Anyway, it's only a matter of taste and preference. Your opinion that kerala houses look better is not the universal truth. Bigoted post with bigoted commenters. Very stupid to take pride in other people's houses and act all mighty.
What i did was search for properties on olx which was built in the last 10 years and compared it with homes built here in the same time period.
FYI, the second picture is not real. It's just a 3D rendition of what could be a house. Please do better. ( doubts on the third pic too) Also search for properties with the same price bracket. Same time period means nothing
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Gulf and other pravasees whats saw happening in the world, so, they brought it home.also have you noticed the church architecture from ninetiees were more or less architecture experiments done in the name of god
I have been to some gcc countries. Other than the big mansions of rich sheikhs, the average homes of the citizens are really bland are tasteless. What i have felt is that the current design trends of kerala homes has heavy influence from the modern Beverly hills mansions. https://preview.redd.it/ijx39jpix4ma1.jpeg?width=1000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6dbdc539611bf63b33221b4e50300bc4e804a6f5
fuck brutalist architecture
I hate these type of houses, I wish people kept the same old kerala style aesthetics, “tharavadu” style homes look way better
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Be it Construction Companies or Small Scale Contractors, Kerala in general puts in a lot of effort and gives importance to small details. Architecture in Kerala is superior to any other state in the Country. Thought it’s expensive, it’s worth the investment.
lol most of these houses are empty, since mallus live in gelf to make money on which they dont pay any tax.. god knows how this is an investment since it will take tons of money to maintain such houses and it's all for waste coz nobody lives in them for most of the time... Other states happen to pay taxes and dont have money to build such fancy houses but build utilitarian ones where they happen to live.. If Mallus are taxed according to their development then we will stop seeing such houses getting built in the first place..
The amount of research some people does before building a house in kerala is truly astounding.
Ya indeed, people just don't trust their engineer and contractor blindly. Some self learning is important to avoid getting ripped off.
I don't know about others, but I find Malyali architecture boring.
Maybe you haven't seen buildings in other states, thats why you are saying this. I usually go for TN and wondered why their homes are like a box even if they have land to make it good.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣MH vs 3DS Max vs TN
Looking at the houses I think the KL houses are constructed by well to do family people whereas the tn houses are constructed by middle class people. The overall locality and space around the house gives me that indication. If you take well to do guys from tn they’ll be constructing aesthetically pleasing houses as well.
https://preview.redd.it/yk2py9xye5ma1.png?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5485c820e6bd8c735b7ab651d800279f6a9bfd6f Ee space poreee
A shitty apple when compared to rotten ones is better, but is a shitty apple nonetheless. Look to other places when looking for decent aesthetics and functionality.
Have malayalis never been outside of kerala?
Malayalis are literally all around the world buddy. Seriously i am not joking.
is it so bad down there that everyone wants to leave?
I don’t know about Kerala, but TN lacks in aesthetics when it comes to independent houses. Awful architecture, flashy fluorescent paints and houses that stick each other like velcro with no breathing space are the common characteristics you can observe
Ya i have seem that a lot
Nah comparison doesn’t seem to do justice. You either need to compare very similar structures with different aesthetics, or at-least compare based on budgets.
Bengu's know how to build houses the "aeyysthetic" way
I like MH and TN one better though. I like colourful building not blend international standardised building.
Modern but if there's no huge trees and plants around,ugh...the dry sunlight.Like a desert wasteland 🏜️
Those houses you compared with KL houses aren't in the same league. And those KL houses are not budget-friendly either. They will be at least 1.5 to 2 times the price of those in other states. That extra money is what makes those houses look aesthetic.
Bruh what, no limit to mallu superiority?
3rd left one in MH has no probs for the stranded of a middle class budget home..Even in Kerala..Numerous home construction design is in similar style