Hello everyone,
I have often wondered what typical “building mistakes” from the 2010s and 2020s will be seen as in a few decades. Would you like to speculate together?
I mean, in the 1970s, it was considered stylish and modern to cover bathroom walls with brown tiles all the way to the ceiling and combine them with sunny yellow sanitary ceramics. Back then, no one could have imagined that this would one day be regarded as unattractive.
Will vinyl flooring and laundry connections on the first floor be seen as typical but now outdated features of our time? Floor-to-ceiling windows? “Smokey eyes” (dark window tinting)? Which elements will make the next generation shake their heads and wonder about our questionable taste?
I have often wondered what typical “building mistakes” from the 2010s and 2020s will be seen as in a few decades. Would you like to speculate together?
I mean, in the 1970s, it was considered stylish and modern to cover bathroom walls with brown tiles all the way to the ceiling and combine them with sunny yellow sanitary ceramics. Back then, no one could have imagined that this would one day be regarded as unattractive.
Will vinyl flooring and laundry connections on the first floor be seen as typical but now outdated features of our time? Floor-to-ceiling windows? “Smokey eyes” (dark window tinting)? Which elements will make the next generation shake their heads and wonder about our questionable taste?
Mycraft schrieb:
Well, the question is whether an external thermal insulation composite system (ETICS) will even be necessary. Remove the old render, apply new render. Removing the render without causing damage? Hmm.
It also depends on what exactly needs to be renovated. If the insulation is compromised, then the whole system has to be taken down. If it’s just that the render looks bad and repainting no longer helps, I would say just apply a new layer of base coat render and then a new top coat render.
Pinkiponk schrieb:
I have a question about that. Why "open stairs"? I believe they make a house feel more spacious than "enclosed stairs." That’s why I’m interested in your opinion. Yes, I deliberately chose an open-plan living concept with a corresponding staircase.
However, this is a matter of personal preference, and what seems right now might later be considered a building mistake.
In 30 years, when it comes to selling or reusing the property, we will all take a good look around.
Many are building homes over 150 square meters (1,615 square feet) now, or including this or that feature. I’m convinced that 2–3 generations from now, some of these choices will be viewed negatively—building mistakes, so to speak. An open staircase is part of the building that does not offer much flexibility in case of necessity. There are limited options to change it.
But I’m living in it now, and we haven’t faced times of need yet. Energy shortages are already being discussed…
Pinkiponk schrieb:
What does "unfocused" mean .... or the whole term "unfocused built bowling alley semi-detached house"? Since I’m familiar with some of your posts, I know there’s some clever idea behind it, I just didn’t understand what it is.goalkeeper schrieb:
Sometimes his posts are just cleverly packaged nonsense – sorry @11ant. But sometimes it’s too much pub talk and not enough nuanced discussion for me.There are different opinions about whether there is anything clever behind my posts – and also about whether it’s nonsense. What surprises me greatly, however, is that here @goalkeeper belongs to the group that doesn’t understand – even though he himself experiences in textbook fashion the evaluation of my views on unfocused built semi-detached houses (in his case, though, row houses).Row houses – and semi-detached houses are basically row-end houses attached without a middle unit – are characterized by being built side by side (either staggered or aligned). To avoid complicated building part connections, it helps not to attach apples to oranges. For this, one uses the tools of “joint planning” (which fundamental individualists often reject with the argument of not wanting to build cloned houses – which is not necessarily the case) and “joint construction management” (which in practice also has no disadvantages). If one builds unfocused – i.e., not only does everyone have (unproblematically) their own architect, but (problematic) these do not communicate with each other – problems arise: in sealing the building at the boundary sides, when one builds with a basement and the other without, and so forth.
Row houses, as a construction type, are basically best suited for developers and much less so for individual builders. And no one is currently experiencing this more harshly than @goalkeeper.
“Bowling alley” refers to floor plans that are disproportionately narrow and long, like a “towel” shape (just a bit more extreme). Every floor plan concept has a pain point beyond which you cannot simply squeeze it into another format without loss of quality. In my opinion, a row house cries out loud “ouch” as soon as it is narrower than seven meters (or better said: “not-wide” or “narrow”).
Wood and masonry construction, various roof types, with or without basements: all these can be placed directly beside each other – if necessary even with different architects – but these architects should at least communicate with each other. In the case of @goalkeeper, in my opinion, the cynical community takes this a level further: each homeowner whimsically decides “individually” whether and how to add fill. The result is already recorded in the Bible, only the village of fools there is called Babylon. So cynical voices predict: “the first will be the only ones.”
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Pinkiponk19 Nov 2019 19:3811ant schrieb:
everythingGreat post. Thank you.Similar topics