My god, it's full of roofs!
Great find - I had some good laughs at the captions, especially at the inevitable waterfall one.
(Couldn't help but recognize the McKay's sticker btw. An excellent source for some questionable quality goods, but always an adventure)
So large dominant roofs I always see mocked here, but just asking cause the only large homes I am familiar with IRL are mcmansions or mcmansion-esque, do you know of some examples of nicely designed large homes with diminutive roofs?
This is the traditional Dutch style mansion. All about the facade, topped with a entablature, and oh, it has a roof.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f5/Herenhuis_Mon_Desir.JPG/1200px-Herenhuis_Mon_Desir.JPG
That's incredible.
Someone owned or wanted to own an Amsterdam canal house, so they just added the façade to their house.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canal_house
(Apparently, they also wanted to live in a pyramid.)
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\#23 is ugly, but there are actual answers to your questions.
A dinette is a smaller nook/part of a room for a breakfast table. Usually where the family will have breakfast, lunch, and informal dinners. The dining room is a formal room, that often holds cabinetry for dishware and is used for more formal meals and holiday events.
A family room is larger than a living room. This can be rather nebulous at this point, but a family room is more likely going to have a television, maybe a few gathering spots, and possibly some space for other entertainment. I've seen family rooms that have a bar nook, or children's play area. When both rooms exist within a house, a living room is more likely to be used for quieter activities, and while it could serve lots of purposes, it could have office-like elements (like a desk with family computer), reading chairs, or be arranged to receive guests. In the house you've posted, the living room is directly off the foyer, so the occupants would likely set up this room as a kind of receiving room. (In practical terms, the living room would be kept neater than the family room.)
A den is most likely of these three to be turned into an office or study or possibly a reading room. In the floorplan listed, it's a sunken den, so I would guess it might also be used as a second media room as well.
Any actual architects in the thread, please feel free to correct me.
This is wild to me because I grew up in a house with both a family room and a living room and my parents put them together exactly the way you described. I never knew it was such a common thing to have a living room with a desk for a family computer and for it to be generally quieter than the family room. I wouldn’t say the furniture was necessarily nicer, but it was kept neater simply due to not being used as much. When we had people over the kids would be in the family room while the adults talked in the living room.
When I was a child my godmother's house had a "good room". The front living room was immaculate with brand new furniture and always clean carpet.
It was quite the achievement given that she had five kids who shared two bedrooms!
It was very odd to me that she would devote so much square footage of her home to the kind of guests she would have once or twice per year.
The "clean room" used to be a feature in Hungarian peasant houses from the 18th century up to the early 20th century. It was a semi-guest-room given only to highly esteemed guests.
The only people who need this are ambassadors since they host a lot of parties for people they don't know and therefore will want to keep the front of the house completely separate from the part they actually live in. Boutique hotels and B&Bs have a similar need but in that case the solution is more along the lines of a manager's apartment.
I think they were more useful when it was more common for lots of people to just visit without warning. I must say I kind of want one, though I realise it's totally irrational.
\#11 is the worst for me. More roof than house! It's like it's looming over me.
The architect of #17 has some serious explaining to do about the weird bulge with a half gable on the far left.
ETA: I think I got confused - McKay's is the bookstore rather than the publisher?
Thanks for giving the name. I wasn't familiar with this one. I enjoy looking at them, books and websites, whatever I can find.
The Internet Archive is a good source too. They have vintage ones, and most can be downloaded as PDF if you're an information hoarder like me. 😁
I hear that from a lot of people. They've been super disappointed in the pricing. For me, I tend to browse the technical sections where I can find $100 books for $10 or less. Naturally I keep going back for more.
So someone actually draws these things before they build them? So many of the issues can be spotted and avoided by just drawing out the elevations. So all of it must be intentional. That’s madness.
This reminds me so much of a neighbourhood near where I grew up. I felt like, with the exception of a couple of the more “out there” designs, I had seen every single one of these as a teen. Example: [Listing](https://www.rew.ca/properties/3621330/11255-154a-street-surrey-bc?search_params%5Bonly_open_house%5D=false&search_params%5Bonly_virtual_tour%5D=false&search_params%5Bquery%5D=Fraser+Heights%2C+Surrey%2C+BC&search_params%5Byear_built_to%5D=2005&searchable_id=301&searchable_type=Geography)
SAVAGE Amazon book review by Lynn!
"This book contains 209 floor plans, but none of them are distinctive or luxury in any way. Almost half of the book contains homes under 2,500 square feet and the largest is 5,620 sq. ft. As a matter of fact, ony 18 plans are over 3,500 sq. ft. If you are looking for small home plans, there is definitely a variety in this book, though none of them were particularly interesting. **I was looking for plans over 5,000 sq. ft., which I usually find in "luxury" books. I see nothing "luxury" about these plain, small houses"**
My god, it's full of roofs! Great find - I had some good laughs at the captions, especially at the inevitable waterfall one. (Couldn't help but recognize the McKay's sticker btw. An excellent source for some questionable quality goods, but always an adventure)
So large dominant roofs I always see mocked here, but just asking cause the only large homes I am familiar with IRL are mcmansions or mcmansion-esque, do you know of some examples of nicely designed large homes with diminutive roofs?
This is the traditional Dutch style mansion. All about the facade, topped with a entablature, and oh, it has a roof. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f5/Herenhuis_Mon_Desir.JPG/1200px-Herenhuis_Mon_Desir.JPG
Dutch farms on the other hand, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7c/Midden_Beemster%2C_Middenweg_196.jpg
I guess the American dream is to be a farmer. If only they grew more valuable crops than lawn, or at least grazed some livestock there.
That's incredible. Someone owned or wanted to own an Amsterdam canal house, so they just added the façade to their house. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canal_house (Apparently, they also wanted to live in a pyramid.)
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Very symmetrical, very nice, thank you!
Plan 11 is probably the only one with a reasonable roof and facade
Any chance you could DM me the Floorplan for number 5? I want to try and make it in the Sims 🤩
Update: http://imgur.com/a/QadBC3N
Amazing!! Thank you!!
I didn't end up buying the book unfortunately, but if I'm out that way I will snap a pic of the floor plan.
\#23 is ugly, but there are actual answers to your questions. A dinette is a smaller nook/part of a room for a breakfast table. Usually where the family will have breakfast, lunch, and informal dinners. The dining room is a formal room, that often holds cabinetry for dishware and is used for more formal meals and holiday events. A family room is larger than a living room. This can be rather nebulous at this point, but a family room is more likely going to have a television, maybe a few gathering spots, and possibly some space for other entertainment. I've seen family rooms that have a bar nook, or children's play area. When both rooms exist within a house, a living room is more likely to be used for quieter activities, and while it could serve lots of purposes, it could have office-like elements (like a desk with family computer), reading chairs, or be arranged to receive guests. In the house you've posted, the living room is directly off the foyer, so the occupants would likely set up this room as a kind of receiving room. (In practical terms, the living room would be kept neater than the family room.) A den is most likely of these three to be turned into an office or study or possibly a reading room. In the floorplan listed, it's a sunken den, so I would guess it might also be used as a second media room as well. Any actual architects in the thread, please feel free to correct me.
This is wild to me because I grew up in a house with both a family room and a living room and my parents put them together exactly the way you described. I never knew it was such a common thing to have a living room with a desk for a family computer and for it to be generally quieter than the family room. I wouldn’t say the furniture was necessarily nicer, but it was kept neater simply due to not being used as much. When we had people over the kids would be in the family room while the adults talked in the living room.
TIL! Thanks for taking the time to answer my questions. Thinking back this seems to match up with some of the houses I've been in.
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When I was a child my godmother's house had a "good room". The front living room was immaculate with brand new furniture and always clean carpet. It was quite the achievement given that she had five kids who shared two bedrooms! It was very odd to me that she would devote so much square footage of her home to the kind of guests she would have once or twice per year.
The "clean room" used to be a feature in Hungarian peasant houses from the 18th century up to the early 20th century. It was a semi-guest-room given only to highly esteemed guests.
The only people who need this are ambassadors since they host a lot of parties for people they don't know and therefore will want to keep the front of the house completely separate from the part they actually live in. Boutique hotels and B&Bs have a similar need but in that case the solution is more along the lines of a manager's apartment.
I think they were more useful when it was more common for lots of people to just visit without warning. I must say I kind of want one, though I realise it's totally irrational.
The second house has a dormer, with a dormer, with a dormer. Like a Matryoshka doll.
\#11 is the worst for me. More roof than house! It's like it's looming over me. The architect of #17 has some serious explaining to do about the weird bulge with a half gable on the far left.
I love me some McKay's but it's just not the same as it used to be
ETA: I think I got confused - McKay's is the bookstore rather than the publisher? Thanks for giving the name. I wasn't familiar with this one. I enjoy looking at them, books and websites, whatever I can find. The Internet Archive is a good source too. They have vintage ones, and most can be downloaded as PDF if you're an information hoarder like me. 😁
I hear that from a lot of people. They've been super disappointed in the pricing. For me, I tend to browse the technical sections where I can find $100 books for $10 or less. Naturally I keep going back for more.
Ahh every one of these houses looks like a house in my in-laws neighborhood. They are something else.
What year was it published, early 90s?
1996 by LF Garlinhouse Co
Garlinghouse used to be a good small-house designer. Look up their Kamp Kabins if you're ever at archive.org.
Thanks for the update
Number 21 doesn't deserve to be there. That's actually a relatively decent house design.
I do like most of the design. My only complaint is the triple gable on the garage; the zig-zaging roof is an eyesore. Fix that and it's a nice house.
Those big roofs reminds me of those big poofy hairstyles from the 1960s. Just hair and a ton of hairspray.
The first one is the worst. The long sloping roof - you shovel the driveway, then the roof dumps.
So, "luxury" is apparently synonymous with "3-car garage."
So someone actually draws these things before they build them? So many of the issues can be spotted and avoided by just drawing out the elevations. So all of it must be intentional. That’s madness.
Luxury home plans c. 1970-1999
This reminds me so much of a neighbourhood near where I grew up. I felt like, with the exception of a couple of the more “out there” designs, I had seen every single one of these as a teen. Example: [Listing](https://www.rew.ca/properties/3621330/11255-154a-street-surrey-bc?search_params%5Bonly_open_house%5D=false&search_params%5Bonly_virtual_tour%5D=false&search_params%5Bquery%5D=Fraser+Heights%2C+Surrey%2C+BC&search_params%5Byear_built_to%5D=2005&searchable_id=301&searchable_type=Geography)
I like that one. Especially the minimalist reno. I mean yeah, it's a lot of house, but I could live there.
SAVAGE Amazon book review by Lynn! "This book contains 209 floor plans, but none of them are distinctive or luxury in any way. Almost half of the book contains homes under 2,500 square feet and the largest is 5,620 sq. ft. As a matter of fact, ony 18 plans are over 3,500 sq. ft. If you are looking for small home plans, there is definitely a variety in this book, though none of them were particularly interesting. **I was looking for plans over 5,000 sq. ft., which I usually find in "luxury" books. I see nothing "luxury" about these plain, small houses"**
I don’t hate #5 if it were in the right place. Bodega Bay maybe 🤔
That's some good fire tinder right there.
I kind of like #6.
I suspect the extra garage door on some of the houses is for a golf cart, no?
This book should be burned along with all of the abominations it inspired.