It's not the space itself, it's that it's prominent, pushed out in front, and the living space for, you know, humans, seems to be not much more than what the machinery gets ... it just seems bizarre and backwards from a design PoV, and I sure as heck wouldn't want a newer house designed like this (never mind all the modern corner-cutting of cookie-cutter, production-minded contractors ..)
Garages used to be modest things stuck in the back, and the size of the living space was emphasized. And if not in the back yard, it was pushed back from the house, not thrust forward or equal to.
If you want "stupid things to complain about", why are we complaining about a house in the first place? Except for the silly price (and that's location-based), I don't see much in the way wrong with it, ALL the fucking houses are being built more or less like that. Except usually with cheap-shit ugly-ass vinyl siding, which I hate more than the colour scheme on that fake brick shit. And I like the postage-stamp sized yards a lot less than the weird design of emphasizing storage space over living space.
That reminds me of when I was looking to buy my first house about 10 years ago. I checked out a new development and they were building on these tiny lots that were maybe 40 feet wide. I guess they were trying to stuff as much house on the street line as possible. It's just like you describe, the houses look like garages with doors on the side of them that's the front door. I'm glad I didn't get sucked in by the newness of them as I would have learned real quick I didn't like it. The house I ended up buying had about a 25% bigger lot and it still felt like you were sharing a back porch with the neighbor behind you.
All the more reason to get out of town I guess, these houses I speak of aren't even in an expensive part of the country yet they still build them like that to cut $10k-$20k off the cost
It's not the space itself, it's that it's prominent, pushed out in front, and the living space for, you know, humans, seems to be not much more than what the machinery gets ... it just seems bizarre and backwards from a design PoV, and I sure as heck wouldn't want a newer house designed like this (never mind all the modern corner-cutting of cookie-cutter, production-minded contractors ..)
Garages used to be modest things stuck in the back, and the size of the living space was emphasized. And if not in the back yard, it was pushed back from the house, not thrust forward or equal to.
If you want "stupid things to complain about", why are we complaining about a house in the first place? Except for the silly price (and that's location-based), I don't see much in the way wrong with it, ALL the fucking houses are being built more or less like that. Except usually with cheap-shit ugly-ass vinyl siding, which I hate more than the colour scheme on that fake brick shit. And I like the postage-stamp sized yards a lot less than the weird design of emphasizing storage space over living space.
That reminds me of when I was looking to buy my first house about 10 years ago. I checked out a new development and they were building on these tiny lots that were maybe 40 feet wide. I guess they were trying to stuff as much house on the street line as possible. It's just like you describe, the houses look like garages with doors on the side of them that's the front door. I'm glad I didn't get sucked in by the newness of them as I would have learned real quick I didn't like it. The house I ended up buying had about a 25% bigger lot and it still felt like you were sharing a back porch with the neighbor behind you.
All the more reason to get out of town I guess, these houses I speak of aren't even in an expensive part of the country yet they still build them like that to cut $10k-$20k off the cost