A few of the homes have many glass walls where do you plug in things? Seems very impractical.
Dream Homes from the Past Century
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#62Are these dream homes or architecturally interesting homes? I would certainly not want to live in one of those homes.
I am looking at building a cabin up north like this, but it will just be a summer retreat, not somewhere to live year round.
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google is telling me an acre is a bit more than 4000 square meter...You need 8000-20,000 square meter plot for your house & yard or am I reading something wrongly? The house my father was born in (& my grandmother still lived in till shortly before she died) was on a ~2500 square meter plot that seemed huge to me, so much that when my father & uncle sold the property 4 more houses were built on the same plot. From wh…
Very large yards make for good neighbors.
And lets you do things without bothering them either.
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True. It's long been my opinion that it's more efficient to heat a person (or a couple of persons) than to heat an entire home, most of which is empty at any given time. A kotatsu fits that bill rather nicely.
Kotatsus are limited: they are ok if you are idle, but they don’t warm your hands if you want to get work done on a laptop. I can never get anything done MIL’s apartment in southern China in the winter (southern China gets no central heating, and it still gets cold).
Put a lump of butter in your tea. Sure it's gross but you'll be warm. ;-)
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#65My biggest worry is, when i finaly have the money and the ground to build my dream, that i'm not allowed to due to building restrictions :(... Germany is densily populated and you can get a house + ground with 2-5 acres for 200-500.000k but they are all in the so called 'outter area' and apparently we don't want that. You have strict building restrictions. you can't just tear it down and rebiuld it (what you often ne…
Germany is not densily populated. Neighbor speaking up here.
The Netherlands is densely rural. Actual high density would easily be 5x as much.
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You might be surprised at how capable the right glass can be. I have never felt cosier than when I stayed at a bed and breakfast with what must have been glazed/airgapped floor to ceiling windows for one wall. It overlooked a raging ocean as it was storming, with alpacas on the porch, and you couldn't hear any of it. I can't speak for radiant heat though, as I was there in winter. You might be right there.
That sounds amazing. Do you have a link, by any chance?
Seafarers Getaway, along the Great Ocean Road, Victoria Australia: https://seafarers.com.au/
I went in winter. It's surrounded by the Otway Rainforest, a very unique ecosystem with some pretty awesome hikes and waterfalls! I live in Aus, so I just drove there, but there is a bus line that takes you from Melbourne along the Great Ocean Road you could use if you're coming from overseas.
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#67I lived for 10 years in a very transparent house. Loved it for two years. The lack of privacy and the need of shade from sunlight=heat inside made me finall move to a more closed construction.
haha, that transparent bedroom.
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What is special about now is that you can have a simple house now, and have it be the envy of a kings’ from 200 years ago. The sheer comfort of living in a modern house is insane, regardless of the size.
Add a decent modern mattress and a 60" TV connected to Netflix and bring the billionaire envy 150 years forward?
Not the mattress. High quality handmade horsehair mattresses are what the absolute richest of the rich have slept on for hundreds of years and continue to do today in 2020. There's a reason they go for $100k, I've tried them.
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#69First I was surprised to see how modern were these houses from the ”past century” . Then I realized that the past century is no longer the 19th century, as it was while I was growing up and got used to the term.
Same here. I was actually hoping to see lots of outdated dreams, like "look what they thought would be cool, but turned out to be completely impractical". Also, all such posts miss location. What good is a cool house, if the next supermarket is 50 miles away?
> What good is a cool house, if the next supermarket is 50 miles away?
For some of us, this is the main feature :) But yeah, it would be more useful to describe the surroundings.
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#70I dislike how much glass is used in many of these houses. I imagine they let a LOT of ambient noise and heat inside.
I've spent time in houses on the Maine coast that have a lot of glass on the side of the house facing the ocean. Even without any AC, they were perfectly comfortable for the vast majority of the year. And the only real noise you hear is lobster boats.
If you have a view, it really makes sense to design a house in a way that maximizes the view. I'm not sure I'd go as far as some of these designs but the glass ones look pretty nice to me. (Some of the others not so much.)